The first stable release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager is available. Feature Highlights - Central control plane for multiple Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server remotes - Unified dashboards and custom views for health, performance, and capacity - Workload life-cycle management: start, stop, reboot, and migrate guests centrally - Cross-cluster live migration for load balancing and maintenance without downtime - Central view of updates, firewall, SDN, and configuration health - Enterprise access control with users, API tokens, LDAP/AD/OIDC, and 2FA - New Rust/Yew Proxmox UI framework https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-datacenter-manager-1-0-stable.177321/

Beelink SER9 Max Review: Major Platform Upgrades and Real 10 Gig Networking https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/12/beelink-ser9-max-review-major-platform-upgrades-and-real-10-gig-networking/ Will be giving this one away to someone posting their current home lab setup to this forum thread! (Can only ship US domestic unfortunately) https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/home-lab-pics/best-home-lab-server-pics-and-gear-in-2025/

I ran an Ubuntu server (vm) for a while and I put BookStack on it for just a knowledge base type thing. I'm not going to lie, I'm not a big fan of OneNote and I don't want to pay money to host my own knowledge base articles. I found WordPress is cool but a little too much for what I was looking for. I discovered BookStack and it's awesome. As Brandon suggested, make one of your favorite apps a docker container, so that's what I did. It wasn't easy setting up, but wasn't that difficult either. I was gifted a Rasberri Pi 4 and I decided to throw Ubuntu on it and make it a "docker" host. This little machine is physically hidden in my house, but connected to my network and I have hardened it like I do my other servers, but running docker on this thing is a game changer! I host this BookStack app for my home stuff and since I work from home, I made a little section for my work stuff too. The only barrier I'm coming across is backing this up since it's technically an arm OS so my backup server won't install the agent on it. I guess I could go the native route and tar it and then send it to one of my network shares, which are backed up. But anyhoo, I've found out that rasberri's are great for docker hosts too!

Here is a list of links for getting started or just adding to their current homelab. Fell free to add to the list. https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage https://github.com/semaphoreui/semaphore https://github.com/gotify https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea https://github.com/sysadminsmedia/homebox https://github.com/PenningLabs/lxconsole https://github.com/immich-app/immich https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma https://github.com/henrygd/beszel https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io https://github.com/nextcloud https://github.com/metabase/metabase https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra

Let me know if you have others to add or suggest! I learn about tools and apps from the community: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/11/10-best-terminal-tools-for-home-labs-in-2025/