A practical start-to-finish Ubuntu and Docker walkthrough for building a media automation stack with Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, Seerr, SABnzbd, Deluge, Gluetun, and Jellyfin, adapted from TRaSH Guides and Mathias Furenes' Synology ARR-stack guide.
Running Pterodactyl at home made game hosting easier, but the bigger lesson was learning to separate management intent, node control, Docker execution, gameplay, storage, and recovery into distinct failure domains.
Containers gave my homelab a repeatable application model, but the useful part was the discipline around persistence, networking, updates, and recovery.
A practical architecture and operations handbook for planning a homelab from scratch: workloads, hardware, storage, networking, platforms, security, monitoring, backups, recovery, and the order to build them in.
A practical, start-to-finish guide to deploying, securing, accelerating, backing up, upgrading, and troubleshooting Jellyfin 12 on Ubuntu Server with Docker Compose.