Docker

TL;DR: Don’t do anything illegal. Jump to the Totally Legal Use Cases section for all the cool legal use-cases. Intro In Part 1, I walked through building my Unraid server — migrating from a mini-PC and laying the hardware foundation for a reliable homelab. The goal: build a flexible, automated media server that runs cleanly and requires minimal manual intervention. In this post, I’ll cover how I automated everything using Docker, Trash Guides, and a suite of containers — including Plex, Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, and more — all working together to provide a seamless media experience. ...

Introduction: My Allrounder Server As a DevOps Engineer and homelab tinkerer, reliable and flexible storage and a central platform to run services on is essential. That’s where a home server comes in! Initially I just wanted something to run Home Assistant on. But after the streaming landscape got more anti-consumer with every new platform, introduction of ads in lower price tiers, the nth price increase and the overall low bitrate of content, I had to look for something that could host and play media as well. ...