Best of Homelab — August 2025

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    Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

    A detailed guide on setting up a home virtualization environment using Proxmox Virtual Environment on encrypted Debian, with full automation through Ansible playbooks. The author migrates from cloud VPS to a local mini PC setup, implementing disk encryption, bridged networking, and infrastructure-as-code practices to create a flexible homelab for experimenting with Kubernetes while maintaining production service stability.

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    Self-Host Weekly (1 August 2025)

    Weekly roundup of self-hosted software updates and new releases, featuring major updates to popular applications like Navidrome's multi-library support, Tandoor Recipes v2 frontend rewrite, and Immich's custom share URLs. Covers 18 software updates, 19 new tools, and recently discovered projects spanning categories from media streaming to container management, plus community content and tutorials.

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