Sometimes, you only need one container, because all you need is one instance of an app. But sometimes you need cluster of containers that can respond to changes in demand, and that can be upgraded ...

Decking out your home lab with useful (and downright wacky) self-hosted services never gets old, regardless of the number of years under your belt as a server owner. But once you transition from ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to manage a Docker Swarm deployment with the Portainer web-based GUI. Image: BalanceFormCreative/Adobe Stock I’ve said this many times before, and I’ll say it many ...

As someone who loves experimenting with wacky self-hosted services, let me tell you, containers are a godsend for home labs. They don’t consume too many resources, provide decent isolation provisions, ...