authentik
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links, at no extra cost to you. Why Your Homelab Needs a Real Identity Provider You've got a dozen services scattered across your lab—Proxmox, Gitea, Paperless, Immich, your internal wiki.
tailscale
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links, at no extra cost to you. Why Tailscale Changes How You Access Your Homelab You're running a homelab with Proxmox, Docker stacks, and a NAS, but you're tired
wireguard
Why WireGuard on Your Homelab Matters You need remote access to your homelab without exposing services directly to the internet or managing complex OpenVPN configurations. WireGuard gives you a modern, auditable VPN kernel module (just ~4000 lines of code) that's dramatically faster than OpenVPN, with simpler key management
uptime-kuma
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links, at no extra cost to you. The Problem: You Need Visibility Into Your Homelab Without Sending Data to SaaS You've got services scattered across your homelab—Plex, Home Assistant, a
zfs
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links, at no extra cost to you. Why ZFS on Proxmox VE Matters for Storage-Heavy Homelab Deployments Proxmox VE doesn't mandate ZFS, but running production VMs on thin LVM pools or
nextcloud
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links, at no extra cost to you. The Problem: You Want Private Cloud Storage Without Monthly Bills You're tired of subscription services for cloud storage, and you've got spare
docker
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission if you purchase through these links, at no extra cost to you. Docker for Homelab — Complete Setup Guide for Self-Hosters You need Docker running reliably in your homelab, but you're tired of cobbled-together install scripts and