Launch batch: network, containers and monitoring

HomelabDeck launched with a first batch of apps for the foundation of a homelab. All of them were installed and tested in our own LXC containers, and each entry shows dashboard screenshots, measured resource usage and a ready-to-use docker-compose.yml.

Pi-hole blocks ads and trackers for the whole network through DNS, so every device at home benefits without installing anything. Portainer is a web UI for managing Docker and Kubernetes without living in the command line, and it runs on only 256 MB of RAM.

Uptime Kuma watches your services and sends instant alerts when something goes down, and it can publish a public status page. Grafana turns metrics from almost any data source into dashboards and alerts, which makes it the natural companion for a monitoring stack.

Together these four give you network-wide filtering, container management and visibility into what is running, all self-hosted and free.