Headplane: a Web UI for Headscale
Building and running Headplane against a self-hosted Headscale control server — the requirements the docs get wrong, and the two permissions traps that keep it in a crash loop.
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Building a Homelab SOC: One Log Pipeline, Eight Dashboards
Centralising logs from ten machines into Loki with rsyslog and Alloy, adding metrics with Prometheus, and building the dashboards that answer security questions.
A WiFi Access Point Inside an LXC Container
Passing a physical WiFi card into a Proxmox container to run hostapd, with dnsmasq for DHCP, network-level ad blocking, and per-client notifications.
Building a Home Media Server with Jellyfin and Proxmox
How I turned a spare 4TB drive and a Proxmox LXC container into a family media server with Jellyfin, replacing multiple streaming subscriptions with a single self-hosted solution.
Getting Started with Proxmox VE for Your Home Lab
A beginner-friendly introduction to Proxmox VE — installation, initial configuration, and first container creation for homelab enthusiasts.
Harden Your LXC Containers: Security Essentials for Proxmox
Practical security hardening steps for LXC containers in a Proxmox homelab — SSH, AppArmor, unprivileged containers, and resource isolation.
My Proxmox VE Homelab: Infrastructure Overview
A walkthrough of my self-hosted Proxmox VE homelab — LXC containers, networking, and the services that run my digital infrastructure.
Monitoring Your Homelab with Grafana, Loki, and CrowdSec
Setting up centralised logging, metrics dashboards, and intrusion detection for a Proxmox-based homelab with open-source tools.
Setting Up ISC DHCP for Private IPs in a Proxmox Homelab
A practical guide to running isc-dhcp-server in an LXC container for static and dynamic IP allocation across your Proxmox VE lab network.