📁 Lab

The Adaptive Cloud home lab: Azure Local, Windows Server, and AKS on a rack of edge hardware, the agents that help run it, and the tooling that earns its keep.

08/02/26	From BIOS to first token: standing up an NVIDIA A2 at the edge Bringing up a 16 GB NVIDIA A2 in a Lenovo SE350 edge server: GPU Operator, KAITO, Dynamo with a vLLM worker, and every gotcha between power-on and the first ...
07/22/26	The six months my lab spent in a bottling plant Why I drove my own servers to a customer site, ran Azure Local and AKS on hardware that was never on the validated list, and left them there for half a year.
06/15/26	Agentic management of a personal home lab running Windows Server, Azure Linux, and Azure Local The full setup guide: an isolated lab, VS Code Remote Tunnels, GitHub Copilot in agent mode, and the skill-building that turns an AI into a competent junior ...
04/01/24	Roll your own AVD on HCI deployment – Part 4: Turn it up! Lee Cox – Advanced Migration GBB Welcome back to Part 4 of our Blog series. Thanks for taking the time to follow along. So? How did it go? Did you get throug...
03/29/24	Roll your own AVD on HCI deployment – Part 3: The Deployment Lee Cox – Advanced Migration GBB Welcome to Part 3 of this series of Rolling your own Azure Stack HCI environment! Congrats and thanks for sticking with me. ...
03/28/24	Roll your own AVD on HCI deployment – Part 2: The Plan & Identity Lee Cox – Advanced Migration GBB Welcome back, and to Part 2 of this series. I hope that you found the first part helpful. Continuing on from the last Blog p...
03/27/24	Roll your own AVD on HCI deployment – Part 1: The Gear Part 1 of a 4 Part series on how to deploy Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI