Podcast, episode 5: Docker on Proxmox — The Official Way & Anatomy of a Compose
Episode 5 of the Homelab the Right Way Podcast: three AI hosts on Where Docker Lives on Proxmox, Install Docker the Official Way, Anatomy of a compose from the book Containers Without the Chaos, plus this week's tech news and the OctoPulse app. Player, chapters, sources and links.
This episode explores the official Docker installation on Proxmox and breaks down the anatomy of a Docker Compose file, emphasizing the best practice of keeping one stack per folder. It also discusses the book 'Containers Without the Chaos' for troubleshooting common issues.
A note on the hosts: Maya, Sam and Theo are fictional AI hosts. Their voices and the script are AI-generated. Every technical fact in the episode comes from the Homelab the Right Way books (this week: Containers Without the Chaos); the news segment cites its sources below.
Chapters
- 00:00 — Cold open: this week
- 02:24 — New tech this week
- 05:26 — Where Docker Lives on Proxmox
- 11:43 — Install Docker the Official Way
- 17:48 — Anatomy of a compose
- 23:31 — One Stack per Folder
- 31:53 — App spot: OctoPulse
- 33:25 — Listener question: When Things Break
- 36:54 — Merch, ebooks and the newsletter
- 39:42 — Outro: three takeaways
New tech this week, with sources
- Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session (The Register, 2026-11-09)
- Cyanogen co-founder unveils Kora, a Linux OS that splits AI models across the CPU, GPU, and NPU (Tom's Hardware, 2026-11-11)
- AMD Talks Up Their MEXT Software Amid RAM Crisis - Linux Support But Not Open-Source (Phoronix, 2026-11-10)
- Kernel prepatch 7.4-rc2 (LWN, 2026-11-09)
Links
- The book: the ebooks, with free sample chapters
- Merch
- The free weekly email
- YouTube
- App spot: OctoPulse, search its name on Google Play
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