Containers

Homelab
LXC vs VM vs Docker VM in Proxmox

A practical Proxmox placement guide for deciding when to use LXC containers, full VMs, or a dedicated Docker VM for home-lab workloads.

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Linux and Homelab
Portainer 2.44 Security and Bootstrap Tokens: Secure First Run and Existing Installs

A Portainer security runbook for first-run exposure, setup tokens, agent trust, endpoint permissions, backups, and management-plane isolation.

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Homelab
Docker Compose for Normal People: Run Home Services Without Container Chaos

A plain-English Docker Compose guide for running home services with understandable folders, volumes, ports, environment files, updates, and backups.

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Homelab
How Do You Back Up Docker Volumes and Databases Properly?

Back up Docker by backing up the data, configuration, and restore instructions, not the running container. For databases, use application-aware dumps or backup tools, then store those dumps with the volume backups.

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