Exposing Ollama to Home Assistant and Open WebUI, safely
Ollama listens only on localhost and has no built-in authentication. Here's how to open it to exactly the clients that need it and nothing else.
2026-10-20
Updating Home Assistant safely: backups, breaking changes, and the .1 rule
Home Assistant ships a big release every month. Read the backward-incompatible changes, take a backup you can actually restore, and consider waiting for the first patch release.
2026-10-20
Running Ollama in a Proxmox VM: GPU passthrough vs CPU-only
A practical guide to hosting a local LLM on Proxmox: when CPU-only is fine, what GPU passthrough requires, and how to check where your model is actually running.
2026-10-20
Stop using :latest: pin image tags and back up volumes before updating
Pinned tags make updates deliberate and rollbacks possible. Here's how to pin by tag or digest and back up named volumes the way Docker documents it.
2026-10-20
A safe weekend update workflow for Docker homelabs
Read the notes, snapshot, update one stack at a time, verify, and know your rollback before you start. A 20-minute routine that avoids most broken Sunday mornings.
2026-10-20
How to update Proxmox VE without breaking your host
Use dist-upgrade (never plain upgrade), pick the right repository, back up guests first, and roll a cluster one node at a time.
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