Alex is the automation junkie on the IGNA team. If it can be self-hosted, containerized, or scripted, Alex has probably written a guide about it. Specializes in Docker, Ansible, Proxmox, home networking, and anything that makes a homelab run smoother.
Deploy a full Grafana + Prometheus monitoring stack with Docker Compose. Learn how to scrape host and container metrics with Node Exporter and cAdvisor, build dashboards, write PromQL queries, and configure alerting rules for your homelab.
Set up Authentik on Docker to add single sign-on to every service in your homelab — Nextcloud, Grafana, Portainer, and more. Full configuration guide with real examples.
Learn how to use Cloudflare Tunnels to securely expose your homelab services — Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Grafana, and more — from the internet without opening any ports on your router. Free, automatic TLS, and optional Zero Trust authentication included.
n8n is the self-hosted alternative to Zapier and Make — free, open source, and running entirely on your own hardware. This guide walks through a production-ready Docker Compose deployment with PostgreSQL, Nginx reverse proxy, environment variable configuration, and practical homelab workflow examples.
A complete guide to deploying Immich on Docker—automatic phone backup, face recognition, smart search, and full control of your photo library. Self-hosted Google Photos that actually works.
A complete guide to running Vaultwarden — the lightweight Bitwarden-compatible server — with Docker Compose and Caddy reverse proxy. Covers admin setup, client configuration, SMTP, backups, security hardening, and Tailscale integration.
A tour of OneHub, my 23-container self-hosted server, and Mia Tracker — the custom app that lets AI analyze my daughter’s data without a single byte leaving my hardware. Should I open-source it?
Learn how to set up Traefik v3 as a reverse proxy for your homelab Docker stack. Covers automatic HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt, Docker service discovery via labels, reusable middleware, wildcard certs via DNS challenge, and common troubleshooting steps.
Learn how to deploy n8n, the open-source workflow automation platform, on Docker with a PostgreSQL backend, secure it behind a reverse proxy, and build three practical homelab workflows — container health alerts, RSS news digests, and automated backup verification.
I wired up Claude AI routines to act as an autonomous homelab assistant — diagnosing container crashes, monitoring disk usage, checking config drift, and sending plain-English summaries every morning. Here’s the full setup with real Python code.
Build a full homelab monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Node Exporter, and cAdvisor — all running in Docker. Real-time dashboards, alerting, and multi-host support with a single docker compose up.
Tired of managing separate logins for every self-hosted app? Authentik is an open-source identity provider that brings real SSO — OAuth2, SAML, LDAP — to your homelab. This guide walks through Docker Compose setup, integrating Nextcloud and Uptime Kuma, enforcing MFA, and keeping the stack running long-term.
