Homelabs / Self-hosting / Automation
Learn IT infrastructure by building your own homelab.
Hey, I’m Christian, and I share practical videos, guides, and projects that help you turn curiosity into hands-on experience. Build real systems, understand how they work, and develop skills you can use far beyond your homelab.
Latest YouTube videos
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Can I Manage My HomeLab as Code? Pulumi Explained
Can I manage my HomeLab with Python? In this Pulumi tutorial, I explore a different approach to Infrastructure as Code by building a Proxmox VM step by step. We cover state and backends, projects, stacks, and providers, then connect Infisi…
HPE ML350 Gen10 Review // Tower Server for a HomeLab?
In the video I tested a refurbished HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen10 tower server as a more serious homelab machine. This is not a full step-by-step server administration guide, but here are the basic specs of my system and the simple commands I u…
OPNsense Must-Haves: Settings & Plugins You Should Enable
OPNsense checklist Use ZFS and keep an off-device configuration backup; test recovery. Automate encrypted SFTP backups with os-sftp-backup. Restrict Web UI and SSH access to trusted networks; use SSH keys and keep console recovery availabl…
Grafana Networking Security
Proxmox Datacenter Manager is amazing!
Manage your Proxmox hosts, clusters, and Proxmox Backup Server from one dashboard. In this tutorial, I install Proxmox Datacenter Manager in a Debian 13 LXC container, configure repositories and TLS, connect my environments, and explore cu…
Proxmox Linux Self-Hosting
A Better Way to Run Terminal Agents!
Is Herdr a better way to manage terminal agents? I put its workspaces, Git worktrees, agent status, persistent sessions, and remote-machine workflow through a hands-on review. I also cover where plain tmux is enough—and when I’d choose a b…
AI Development Productivity & Documentation
Which Proxmox Storage Should You Use?
Which Proxmox Storage Should You Use? After building a three-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph, the bigger question is whether your HomeLab actually needs that complexity. In this video, I’ll compare local LVM storage, NFS, ZFS with replicati…
Proxmox Storage & Backup
My open-source projects
What I’m building beyond the videos.
Boilerplates
A CLI for reusable templates I use in homelab and automation projects.
Boilerplates Library
My homelab boilerplate templates for Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and more. Easy to understand, and ready to deploy!
Pi Agent for Obsidian
Chat with Pi in Obsidian using context from your notes, links, backlinks, tags, search results, and selected text.
Latest written guides
Practical notes for your next build.
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Trusted HTTPS for the OPNsense Web UI with Let's Encrypt
More guides coming soon
Homelabs, self-hosting, and automation. Stay curious.
Hardware I recommend
Discover hardware for your next homelab project.
- Mini PCs
- Networking
- Single-board computers
- Storage
- Servers
- SSDs
- Switches
- Workstations
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