Homelab

Automating Docker Updates: Watchtower vs Diun vs Manual Strategies Your homelab is running smoothly. Twenty containers, all humming along. Then a CVE drops for one of your images, and you realize you haven’t updated anything in three months. Docker containers don’t update themselves. Unlike desktop apps with auto-update prompts or Linux packages with apt upgrade, containers stay pinned to whatever image you pulled at deploy time. Without a strategy, your self-hosted stack slowly drifts into a graveyard of outdated software. ...

Your homelab is growing. You’ve got Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Pi-hole, maybe a dozen more services scattered across different ports. Bookmarks aren’t cutting it anymore. You need a dashboard — but not one that requires hand-editing YAML files every time you add a service. Homarr is a modern, highly customizable dashboard for your self-hosted services. Its killer feature: everything is configured through a drag-and-drop web UI. No config files, no YAML, no restarts. Add apps, rearrange widgets, configure integrations — all from your browser. ...