Homelabs / Self-hosting / Automation
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
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…
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…
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 VE now officially supports ARM64—but does that make ARM a practical alternative to x86 for your homelab? I installed Proxmox on the Minisforum MS-R1 and tested the familiar workflows: installation, virtual machines, Linux container…
Once DNS becomes critical to your HomeLab, running it on just one server creates a single point of failure. In this video, I build a redundant Technitium DNS setup with its native clustering feature, synchronize zones and configuration bet…
My daily tech stack is not just a list of apps. It is a connected workflow that helps me document my HomeLab, work from the terminal, use AI with real project context, test applications locally, and safely move more complex tasks onto real…
My open-source projects
A CLI for reusable templates I use in homelab and automation projects.
My homelab boilerplate templates for Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and more. Easy to understand, and ready to deploy!
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Hardware I recommend
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