Portainer is probably one of the longest-running pieces of software in Realm Labs. Long before the current Synology, Proxmox, Home Assistant and centralised automation setup existed, I was already using Docker on a Raspberry Pi. And almost immediately, I put…
One of the main goals behind Realm Labs is to run as much as possible on infrastructure I control. That naturally led to an interesting question: Could I host the Realm Labs website from my own homelab without exposing the…
Raspberry Pi systems are useful little machines for homelab work, especially when you want to run lightweight services without dedicating a full desktop or server to the job. In Realm Labs, Raspberry Pi devices are used for a mixture of…
RealmLabs is a website about building, breaking, fixing and improving technology, so hosting it on somebody else’s server always felt slightly at odds with the idea. Instead, I decided to make the website another part of the home lab. The…
Self hosting is one of the main reasons Realm Labs grew from a collection of individual devices into a proper homelab. Rather than installing every application directly onto whatever machine happened to be available, I gradually moved services into Docker…
