Why I use Beszel for monitoring my Homelab When it comes to Homelab tinkering and DevOps projects, monitoring is a must — but I’ve don’t want to spend hours setting up/maintaining tools just to know if a VM or container is online. After testing solutions like Grafana/Prometheus or Glances, Beszel has become my favorite lightweight option. It’s simple, fast to deploy, and does exactly what I need without the overhead. ...
Finally a solution to a long lived problem Sometimes working in DevOps means tackling problems in a less then ideal way. Sometimes it’s because of a lack of time, sometimes it is because there is just no better solution to it. For me that problem was having a second container in a pod acting independently from the “main” container. Before Kubernetes introduced actual sidecar containers, the sidecar pattern was implemented using regular containers in the Pod’s containers section. The problem was that all containers (including the sidecar) shared the same lifecycle, making it hard to manage startup and shutdown independently. ...
Battle of the Dashboards: Homepage vs. Homarr vs. Heimdall For a lot of people functionality is king. But anyone who read my Unraid Server Guide knows that a consistent design is almost as important in my opinion. In the world of homelabbing, a good dashboard is more than just eye candy — it’s your command center. Whether you’re tracking services, monitoring uptime, or just flexing your setup, a dashboard ties it all together. ...