Two blog posts in one day! Public holidays are great for documenting what you have learned when you #selfhost and run a #homelab. @homelab

https://blog.devenphillips.dev/posts/

This one is the beginnings of a series on observability using tools like Prometheus, Perses, VictoriaLogs, fluent-bit, and others!

Debian 13 installed. SSH is working. The base configuration has been deployed with Ansible. The host is now in my basement under a table, ready to be forgotten. Next step for when I have time will be to configure encrypted ZFS and Jellyfin.

#selfhosting #homelab

Replaced the motherboard including new CPU and RAM, the host boots correctly now and the keyboard works! It's time to install Debian 13.

#selfhosting #homelab

I've self-hosted my own #Forgejo server for a while now and it's been such a freaking delight to work with, and gives me some relief that my code/#Git repos have a place outside of #GitHub. When I started this however, I couldn't fully migrate everything I had to Forgejo - as some were still tied to GitHub's actions and their hosted runners. Before I could migrate them, I'd need to set up runners of my own on the Forgejo server.

Seeing GitHub's rapid deterioration lately, I resumed my search on setting up runners on Forgejo the right way, and was initially under the impression that it's gonna be complicated... but as it turns out, it really isn't. I set up a simple runner on a remote #RaspberryPi I had using #Docker (Compose) and it was ready to go. Porting my actions/workflows files were super easy too, unlike doing the same for something like #GitLab. Now all of my repos that were on GitHub and had some CI/CD set up have been migrated to my Forgejo server, using my own runners.

I've updated my #Homelab Wiki topic on Forgejo to include the optional step to set up a Forgejo runner. If you're now only considering deploying Forgejo, feel free to check out the rest of the topic which covers the complete setup, some basic recommended configurations, and even how to migrate your repos to Forgejo and set up push mirroring so they still exist on GitHub (if you choose to).

🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/homelab-wiki/blob/master/topics/forgejo.md#forgejo-runner

Is there anyone out there running an AMD 5650GE based system running Linux or BSD?

Can you tell us your CPU and GPU idle power numbers as displayed in btop?

Maybe this is an "easy button" of sorts to reduce power on an existing AMD AM4 system without going through the machinations of new mobo, ram, etc., etc. Get most of the way there?

#Linux #RunBSD #AMD #5650GE #PowerConsumption #Power #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #SOHO

I've run system upgrades on all my LXCs and #Proxmox nodes, and am going to reboot them all. Wish me luck and remember me young.

#homelab #update #updates

Spent the day trying to get #ProxMox GPU passthrough to work on my #Apple Mac Pro Trashcan hypervisor but all I got was blank output, or host console output, even tho the guest VM saw the PCI device. Can't figure it out. I think the dual GPU doesn't work in my favour. Guest system was #popos for gaming. I tried passing both through but them sometimes the VM couldn't find one of them. Any hints? #selfhosting #homelab

I figured out (with some help) how to use an SQL database to monitor #apache with #Grafana, skippimg Prometheus or Loki, which (I think) would explode trying to handle IPv4s, URLs, refrers or User Agents:

https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/posts/monitoring-apache-with-sql-and-grafana/

#monitoring #SRE #HomeLab

Is there anyone out there running an AMD 5825U based system running Linux or BSD?

Can you tell us your CPU and GPU idle power numbers as displayed in btop?

#Linux #RunBSD #AMD #5825U #PowerConsumption #Power #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #SOHO

UGREEN NAS: DATEIEN SICHER MIT PERSONEN UND GRUPPEN TEILEN – TUTORIAL

https://gadgetchecks.de/ugreen-nas-dateien-sicher-mit-personen-und-gruppen-teilen-tutorial/

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#ugreen #ugreennas #nas #homeserver #datensicherheit #netzwerkspeicher #ugospro #filesharing #selbsthosting #homelab #server #cloudstorage #tutorial #tech #netzwerk #datenspeicher #fotobackup #backup #it #smarthome

#RSS is still my way of consuming news from things I like. Maybe old-school, but powerful. New released for my #homelab on #Codeberg or #GitHub? News of the day? Headlines from Blabbermouth or Metal Hammer? Business updates?

This is the way - self-curated, focused on the contents. Thanks to @freshrss, I made this MY choice. 🖤

And no, RSS won't be dead. Never ever - and in times like these, it's even more important than never before!

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Out of the #IdM / #SSO solutions I can #SelfHost that I remembered about, apparently only #KaniDM has ability to create app passwords / bearer tokens that actually allow to access only a single application 🤔

#Linux #SysAdmin #Privacy #Security #SelfHosting #homelab
@homelab

So I'm thinking of upgrading my T630 to #proxmox 9 from 8. But since I don't have much there anyways, this could be a chance to switch to something more interesting, penses-tu pas??

Could go the #BSD way and use #bhyve stuff? Orrr try something really interesting, #SmartOS which gives you bhyve AND #KVM AND #zones ??? Oh I do love a good set of choices that just paralyzes me sometimes :D

Anyone use any of these? Are there terraform / pulumi compatible modules for this stuff?

#Homelab #unix #linux #freebsd #illumos

UGREEN NAS: AI ALBUM – KI IN DER FOTOS-APP – KI-TUTORIAL ZUR IDX-REIHE

https://gadgetchecks.de/ugreen-nas-ai-album-ki-in-der-fotos-app-ki-tutorial-zur-idx-reihe/

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#ugreennas #ugospro #aidx #fotosapp #kifotos #aialbum #nas #homeserver #selfhosted #datensicherheit #photomanagement #ki #personenerkennung #bilderkennung #texterkennung #duplikatsuche #techtutorial #nasstorage #homelab #ugreen

Final do ano passado tava trocando uma ideia com meu primo sobre self hosting. Hoje ele me mandou uma foto dele fazendo o homelab dele pra rodar o jellyfin.

Detalhe é que nem eu nem ele somos de nenhuma área afim da tecnologia. Acho massa que hj em dia pessoas leigas consigam explorar essas possibilidades só na base da vontade.

#selfhosting #homelab

After procrastinating a decision about which Kanban tool to use, I finally weighed all the available choices and landed on @vikunja

I think this was the first time that a software having their presence on Mastodon made part of my reasons to choose something. Another one is the integration with Home Assistant.

So far, so good. Haven't used it for more than a few minutes to create some fake tasks, but it's been nice. Now I need to figure out how to migrate from my old Kanboard.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #Jira #Kanban #Vikunja @homelab

Just published my second blog post - a deep dive into running Kubernetes on bare metal Raspberry Pis.

Covers everything from routing cluster traffic over a self-hosted Tailscale mesh, to GitOps with Flux, encrypted secrets with SOPS + age, and NFS storage over WireGuard.

Also: the upstream k3s-ansible bug that cost me an afternoon, and why its always DNS

https://scrimreaper.dev/kubernetes-on-bare-metal-worth-the-pain/

#kubernetes #homelab #raspberrypi #selfhosted #gitops #devops #linux

Backups sind eines der Themen, die man gern auf später verschiebt – bis etwas kaputt geht. 👀

Ich habe eine ausführliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung geschrieben, wie man mit restic ein verschlüsseltes 3-2-1-Backup-Setup aufbaut:

- NAS + Offsite Backup
- Hetzner Storage Box
- Snapshots
- Deduplizierung
- Restore-Tests
- Cronjob
- echtes Praxisbeispiel

https://kerezovic.de/de/blog/anleitung/backups-mit-restic/

#Linux #Backup #restic #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Datensicherung #Proxmox #Homelab

Hi, ich bin neu hier und hab grade meinen Mastodon-Server eingerichtet.
Ich probiere mich hier erstmal n bisschen aus :)
Wish me luck

#introduction #deutsch #homelab #fediverse #linux #selfhosted #opensource

@homelab

Is there anything you can't do in a forgejo runner that you would have traditionally run from Jenkins / Hudson?

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

Suite de mon guide Pangolin : j’ai ajouté CrowdSec Manager derrière Pangolin SSO, sans exposer directement l’interface d’admin.

Au programme :
- CrowdSec Manager
- Newt comme node de sortie
- accès protégé par SSO Pangolin
- secrets injectés via Gitea Actions
- ports 8080 et 6060 gardés en interne
- captures et retour d’expérience

https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/pangolin-crowdsec-manager/

#SelfHosting #Homelab #Pangolin #CrowdSec #Docker #Ansible #OpenSource

@gitea are you still interested in people using Gitea, or should we switch over to something else? No responses on the forum or mastodon anymore on user feedback. Helm chart broken for current releases without any response even after multiple pings. What's going on? Silent fade-out of community support and focus on enterprise business?

#gitea #selfhost #git #homelab

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS est sortie, mais côté serveur ce n’est pas une simple mise à jour “nouvelle LTS, nouveau noyau”.

J’ai écrit un article orienté admins/VPS/homelab : support, OpenSSH 10.2, Chrony, paquets serveur, sécurité, GPU/IA, cloud, Livepatch et stratégie de migration depuis 24.04 LTS.

À lire avant de lancer un `do-release-upgrade` un peu trop confiant :

https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon/

#Ubuntu #Linux #SysAdmin #Homelab #OpenSource #Server #UbuntuServer

The Wii homeserver is now live!

http://wii.sjmulder.nl

(IPv6 only, so if your ISP is stuck in the 1900s it'll have to wait until I get around to setting up some proxy or such.)

#Wii #NetBSD #HomeLab

My 4th NAS still has a keyboard issue in the BIOS. I tried to replace the CMOS battery, and removed the install USB stick. The PS2 to USB adapter doesn't solve the issue either. I'm trying an unattended Debian install with preseed but the partitioning fails. At least the keyboard works at that moment. I'm close to the solution 🙏

#homelab #selfhosting

Gestern habe ich gelernt, dass mein Chef Bewerbungen auf die Stelle "IT-Admin" vorfiltern lässt. Alle Quereinsteiger ohne IT-Ausbildung, egal wie sehr sie sich mit IT auskennen, werden sofort abgewiesen. Sogar einer, der sich ein umfangreiches #homelab eingerichtet hat! WTF!?

Das macht mich gerade krass fertig, weil:

- Sowohl mein Admin wie auch ich Quereinsteiger sind. Und wir unsere Jobs echt gut machen und wir beide uns alles schnell selbst beibringen. Ich habe noch nie Klagen vom Chef gehört, sondern nur Lob.

- Die Bewerbungen von ausgebildeten IT-Admins mit Berufserfahrung in den letzten Monaten echt unterirdisch waren. Das waren alles Tyen, die offensichtlich keinen Bock auf IT hatten und trotz angeblicher > 5 Jahre Berufserfahrung eine geringere Fachkenntnis hatten, als mein Azubi im 2. Lehrjahr.

Das Problem: Ich kann meinen Chef nicht damit konfrontieren. Denn dadurch würde ich verraten, dass die Recruiterin mir das erzählt hat.

Seit 3 Jahren versuchen wir erfolglos, die Stelle des 2. Admins zu besetzen... 🤬

Since the last reboot, my dad said that his computer takes a lot of time to boot. The IP address of the NAS has changed, so the NFS mount timed out after 2 minutes. This morning, I remotely re-applied the static IP address as expected and rebooted. But the host didn't come back up. Well, I won't have physical access to the server for months so that sucks. Then I remembered that I have removed my computer from the VPN so the usual ping doesn't work anymore and that's expected. When I tried to connect using the bastion host, it worked.

#selfhosting #homelab

Rather than just tell @FritzAdalis the answer, let's see how the "wisdom of the crowds" does. Boost for fun. How many nerds does it take to get it right.

These drives are 4TB Seagate ST4000NM0275 SAS drives. Unknown provenance (random eBay seller). Sold at $250 for a lot of 10.

How many power-on hours do they have according to smartctl --attributes /dev/sde?

#selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #nas

I needed 2 SAS 4TB drives for my NAS. Found a lot of 10 on eBay for $250. Even if only half work, it’s a good deal.

(edit: this isn't how they were shipped. This is how I put them in a box after I unpacked them after shipping)

Now to find a use for the other 8…
#selfhosted #homelab #nas

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Alright new instance new #introduction time. I should really just copy this somewhere so I don't have to keep retyping it, given how much I move.

I'm #queer, and #polyamorous who's about 30 years old at the time of writing. I do tend to hop around fediverse instances, but I'd like to stop that at some point. I liked Friendica a lot, but my last 2 instances died very suddenly, and I decided against trying a third time. My more stationary account is @klymilark@social.lol, which should be up indefinitely if I don't decide to stop giving omg.lol my money (unlikely, they deserve it!)

I'm a #gamer, and have been for as long as I can remember. I play #FinalFantasyXIV, #GuildWars2, and #WurmOnline for #MMORPG, and I rotate between a few different non MMOs. I tend to play a lot of #VisualNovel, #Mahjong on Riichi City (and hopefully some on FFXIV once cross-DC queues hit NA!), and a lot of #NSFW games. If you have any suggestions on those don't hesitate to DM me, I'm always looking for more!

For some technical hobbies, I'm into #3DPrinting, and I've dabbled in #Soldering to make my own #MechanicalKeyboard. Didn't design it, but I did put it together without a kit :D

Generally I'm very into #FOSS, and #HomeLab. I've also been a #Linux user since 2010. Over the years I've used several flavors of Ubuntu, Debian, EndeavourOS, Garuda Linux, Arch Linux, and currently a #Gentoo user. Also #Emacs is the best piece of software to ever be released.

I'm a #Writer, though I'm currently being very slow writing this novella. Hoping to turn it into a VN, but I can't draw to save my life, and it's real expensive to commission that many images. Might just do a light novel-style thing and throw an image in with each chapter.

For crafts I like #Knitting, and I can #Crochet though do that very infrequently because it hurts. I also do #TabletWeaving, though I'm fairly new at that.

That's just about everything! I do occasionally boost porn, and will probably post my own at some point. Images will be CW'd, text likely will not be, as it causes some distress figuring out what to CW

You know, sometimes too much visibility is as bad as too little.

I deployed NetAlertX on my network, now I'm seeing a few devices disconnecting the reconnecting to the network at random times. The devices and the times are random, but there are a few patterns I can see by the notifications.

The problem is: this was never a problem before, nothing is really failing, but now it is a problem that is bothering me, and I will probably spend hours trying to find out that it's most likely a whole nothingburger.

Now I'm not sure if it was something worth installing.

#HomeLab #NetAlertX @homelab

Seventeen years ago! I bought this multi-million dollar hoard of Sun servers from a scrap yard for $300. After testing, fixing, and swapping parts to max out some of them, I traded a couple for an SGI Onyx for the museum, a few more for parts of what eventually became my personal 16-proc Origin-2000, and kept two as compute servers for my film making.

(A maxxed-out E4000 has 14 x 400 Mhz UltraSparc II's, and 14 gig of ram (In 128meg sticks! Ha ha ha. Warm.)).

#RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems #HomeLab

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New blog post!

This time it's about procrastination, networking, and most of all about configuring MikroTik devices to work as NATless Access Points.

This blog post was long in the making, but eventually I sat down and wrote it in one go based on the notes I was making along the way. And I hope it will be useful for homelabbers and other people interested in network devices.

@homelab

https://stfn.pl/blog/97-mikrotik-ap-without-nat/

#homelab #networking #mikrotik #blog

Edit: no more boosting, answer in toot below.

I have a #Brother DCP-L2530DW laser #printer that does not connect to my 5GHz network. Is it possible that it only supports 2.4GHz? The manual does not mention technologies, so I'm guessing it doesn't because at the build time there were no alternatives...

#HomeLab

Boosts welcome, I'm not sure the hashtags will be enough.

Migration to step-ca certificates renewed by acme.sh client for OpenVPN done successfully. As I have remote only hosts without physical nor public access, the migration was risky.

I have spawned a cloud instance, configured an OpenVPN server with the same configuration as the one I already have. Then, I migrated client by client. Then I have reconfigured the original server. Then, I have updated the remote server on all clients to rebuild the original private network. Finally, I have deleted the cloud instance.

#homelab #selfhosting #openvpn

New blog post! I 3D printed a 10-inch (10") rack for my homelab. It was a very long project, but very rewarding at the end. Since I had a lot of help from various people on Mastodon and other communities, I felt like it would be important to show what I did. Also I hope that while I'm sharing my thoughts and the process to get there, I would be able to help other people with their own projects. And if my project works as inspiration for yours, I would be very happy if you let me know about it!

My thanks to my wife, who was with me through the entire process. And thanks to @ironicbadger, @jwildeboer, @rachel and @Fishd for their inspiration.

#HomeLab #3DPrinting #10inchRack @homelab @3dprinting

https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/my-10-inch-home-lab-rack/

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Picture of the front of the rack, mostly printed in black, with some details that resemble carbon fiber. The shelves from top to bottom: (1) a honeycomb grid with the sign that reads "Lab Rax" in red, (2) a 12-port patch panel with 2 HDMI + 8 RJ45 + 2 HDMI, (3) a blank honeycomb grid, (4) a tray with a Unifi US-8-60W switch, (5, 6 and 7) a tray with a Lenovo M720q with the host name on a red sticker.

• j'ai réussi à ne pas me mettre sur mon pc le 1er mai (j'ai craqué le 2 au soir...)
• le jardin avance bien,sauf mes plans de tomates qui ne prennent vraiment pas... il me reste des graines, je vais retenter.

• j'ai installé #postfixadmin sur mon #homelab et j'en suis plutôt content, pas de fonctionnalité manquantes... reste que côté sécurité c'est peut etre pas top de laisser ca accessible directement sur internet ( ca sens le mot passe supplémentaire en .httpacces en dehors de la maison).

le champ des possibles est infini (ou presque)

Bon dimanche, prennez soin de vous et aujourd'hui surtout : faites vous plaisir !

#3GoodThings #3PetitsBonheur #sysadmin

I innocently swapped PCIe risers between Lenovo tinys and… fried a chip on the board.

It was a tiny (and I really mean almost microscopic) little mosfet. In this video, I attempted a fix. Did it work? #homelab #minipc

Lenovo M90q Homelab Upgrade Gone Wrong
https://youtu.be/pfwWWEeWkXM

I have moved the server to another more accessible room with a keyboard and a screen for the reinstall. The motherboard is so old or minimalist that only VGA is available. Fortunately, it can boot on USB. But there is something weird. The USB keyboard works for like 10 seconds. I have the time to select the boot options but the keyboard becomes unresponsive very quickly. If I boot on the USB, the menu is too long to display so the keyboard is disabled when it's ready. One time, the graphical install automatically started but it failed to display the graphical environment so it required to press any key and it worked! So the keyboard works in a "graphical" environment. The computer just disables it at some point. I have a PS2 port available. But who threw the last PS2 keyboard a few weeks ago? You bet.

#homelab #selfhosting

It's more complicated than I thought. The computer is hidden under a table in the basement where big spiders have their web. On the technical side, the case cannot fit 2 more drives, neither the power supply. My best option is to replace the existing 2*1TB disks with 2*4TB.

#homelab #selfhosting

I need to reinstall all my VMs (away from Ubuntu), should I convert them to containers on two mega-VMs?

I’m keeping the hypervisor for now
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Je dois réinstaller toutes mes machines virtuelles (je quitte Ubuntu), devrais-je les convertir en conteneurs sur deux mega-MVs?

Je garde l’hyperviseur pour le moment.

#HomeLab

#debian has released a new Debian 13 (Trixie) kernel to fix #cve_2026_31431.

If you aren't on Trixie yet, maybe a good time to upgrade?

#sysadmin #homelab #linux

I don't really do the "plug the stuff you made" thing super aggressively, but it feels exceptionally relevant today:

If you're sitting there wrangling updates for your homelab or small to mid size network on debian or redhat likes, because of a certain CVE, and you wish there was a a way to simply get a view of the state of that across all your systems, in one place, you could give my tool a go. It has a nice UX and requires nothing except ssh.

https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere

#exosphere #copyfail #linux #homelab

I've reached the point where I no longer use #ipv4 as the default network protocol in #homelab.

I immediately think in #ipv6 instead!
And I must admit I prefer the latest! 😀

I had an awesome time leading an informal conversation about using home labs as a learning tool during DevOpsDays Raleigh. It was fun to talk to people in various stages of the spectrum: some who want to start one all the way to people who gave up on it. 😄

#DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysRaleigh #HomeLab @homelab

Swapped a bunch of HDDs yesterday in my #homelab. I now have 2*4TB to add to one of my NAS that could become a media server. I plan to replace TrueNAS by Debian with ZFS and install Jellyfin on top of that.

Pangolin 1.18 est sorti.

Grosse évolution côté plateforme :

• Reverse proxy HTTPS pour les ressources privées
• Haute dispo + routage basé sur la latence (multi-sites)
• Suivi d’uptime des sites et ressources
• Health checks avancés (HTTP, TCP, indépendants)
• Alerting (email, webhook, intégrations)
• Support des wildcard resources

Détails : https://pangolin.net/news/1-18-release

#pangolin #devops #selfhosted #zerotrust #observability #homelab #infra

Well that's cool podman running uptime kuma in user space starting as a systemd process.

Did build/compile podlet rust but just ran the pod directly with a systemd generate command. Need to look at quadlet next.

Really like the simple IOS widget.

@homelab
#Homelab

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@rachel @viq @homelab
I have created some very basic alert rules for Blackbox Exporter, just to have something to start and get a feeling about what I may or may not need. Feel free to copy.

By the way: I dropped any actual "ping" tests, and I'm doing some cross-checks with healthchecks.io

#HomeLab

https://gist.github.com/badnetmask/22a4a0f9f419b0a9db90b9c652366fd6

Well. Thanks to @rachel and @viq , I have now migrated from Uptime Kuma to Prometheus Blackbox Exporter.

As much as I loved to have Uptime Kuma, I need something more declarative, and Blackbox works really well.

#HomeLab @homelab

Hi folks! I would love to hear about the non-standard physical #homelab #selfhosting security measures you've taken. From alarms to boobytraps, from customized IKEA boxes to reinforced closets. The crazier the better!

One requirement: you need to have it implemented (at some point in the past or currently). No concepts that never left the design table please.

Hey @homelab and @homeassistant, I have an integration that needs a periodic renewal of a token, and when the token is expired, some important things don't work. Is there a way to have an automation triggered by the notification that this token is expired so that I can make it notify me?

#HomeAssistant #HomeLab

Wow. PETG filament is so finicky. Even when you think it's dry, you have to dry it even more. 🙄

#3DPrinting #HomeLab #LabRax @homelab @3dprinting

Homelab idea: Deploy CNCF Harbor on k3s and use it to host your own custom Fedora and OpenSUSE+Elemental custom immutable images and automate updates for them via CronJob.

#Linux #homelab #Kubernetes #selfhosting

When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates? Do you install them right away? Wait a week or two? Update only when absolutely necessary? And why?

(I'm typically the sort of person that likes to be using the latest release of everything, but I'm open to opinions)

#selfhosted #FOSS #homelab

Today's tech screw up:

I botched an upgrade on Zentyal, our Active Directory alternative. So, being a good sysadmin, I triggered a restore from our Veeam platform, which dutifully shut down the broken VM and began the restore operations.

Using a service account that's stored in active directory. The restore failed, and now I'm reconfiguring my backup software to use locally stored service credentials.

You live and learn!

#sysadmin #homelab

Does anyone have any suggestions for running an Active Directory replacement inside Linux?

I've been using Zentyal for a few years, and I'm just a little sick of using it now.

#homelab #sysadmin

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/116432248383092547

Update on the lab rack decision: I started printing the Lab Rax. It has the minimum size that I need (5U) and can be expanded (up to 10U). It also has a very strong community behind it, which will make it very easy to find parts.

I'll be sure to post photos when I'm done.

#HomeLab #3DPrinting #LabRax @homelab @3dprinting

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1464819-lab-rax-10-server-rack-bolted-version-5u

Run your own homelab boosted

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@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

Does anyone in the home lab and/or 3D printing community have experience with 10" printed racks?

I only need 6U right now, but have space for 8U, maybe 10U if I'm pushing. I'm trying to decide if I should buy a metal frame, or if 3D printing is worth the trouble.

#HomeLab #3DPrinting @homelab @3dprinting

Everything in life has pros and cons: Kubernetes in the home lab makes a lot of things more complicated, but a lot of other things less complicated. Replacing Telegraf + InfluxDB with Node Exporter and sending directly to Victoria Metrics gives me much more visibility on the Raspberry Pis. On top of that, using SNMP Exporter to collect data from Synology allows me to completely get rid of containers running inside an appliance. Silver linings.

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #VictoriaMetrics #Telegraf @homelab

Garage is a lightweight, open-source object storage system you can self-host.

S3-compatible, it lets you run your own cloud storage backend without relying on third parties.

Designed for distributed setups, it replicates data across nodes and stays available even if some go offline.

👉 https://github.com/deuxfleurs-org/garage
👉 More privacy-friendly tools: https://digitalescapetools.com/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Privacy #CloudStorage #Homelab #DigitalMinimalism

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Screenshot of the “Garage” project page with a dark background. At the top is an orange logo above the title “Garage.” Below are links labeled “Website and documentation,” “Binary releases,” “Git repository,” and “Matrix channel.” The text describes Garage as an S3-compatible distributed object storage service for self-hosting, designed for small-to-medium scale clusters across multiple locations, with data replication, high availability, lightweight operation, and resilience to failures.

One of my projects this week is to bring up a K8S cluster on our Proxmox homelab to perhaps eventually migrate EphemeraSearch on it.

EphemeraSearch currently runs on a 7-node K8S cluster at Hetzner.

I'm going to drop some notes in this thread, to perhaps consolidate them into a blog post or something later 🤓

#kubernetes #homelab #selfhosted #proxmox

The whole thing is provisioned with Tofu; and one of my favorite things to do is to verify that the end-to-end provisioning works fine.

So that means a lot of "tofu destroy" + "tofu apply".

However, the TF configuration includes the Talos disk images used by the cluster, and I didn't want to re-download them every single time.

My first intention was to use "tofu taint" on the virtual machines. But they are declared in a for_each block; and you can't use "tofu taint" or "tofu plan -replace" on a for_each resource (unless you enumerate each resource individually).

However, you can do a targeted destroy:

tofu plan -destroy -target proxmox_virtual_environment_vm.k8s_nodes

And destroy will follow dependencies (if you destroy a resource, the resources that depend on it will automatically be destroyed), so in my case I could also do e.g.:

tofu plan -destroy -target talos_machine_secrets.this

(Because pretty much every Talos-related resource depends on this directly or indirectly).

#terraform #opentofu #talos #kubernetes #homelab #selfhosted

Let's continue the Proxmox + Tofu + Talos + Cilium adventure, with two little footnotes. "Devil is in the details!"

First: Talos "inlineManifests" behavior.

When you add some inlineManifests to your Talos MachineConfig and push that MachineConfig, the manifests get applied immediately. Yay!

However, when you update or remove some inlineManifests and push the MachineConfig ... Nothing happens. Talos does a full (potentially destructive!) reconcile only when executing a cluster upgrade. (This is pretty well explained in the Talos docs[1])

This means that our initial installation of CIlium will work immediately, but subsequent configuration changes won't work (the YAML won't be applied) until we run a "talosctl upgrade-k8s". (Pro-tip: make sure to specify "--to" with the current k8s version, otherwise it'll execute a "real" upgrade which implies downloading new images and restarting the whole control plane one component at a time - which takes a while.)

So, are we there yet?

Not quite!

The second issue: each time I'd do a "tofu plan", it would tell me that something had changed. Which is kind of annoying. If you don't change your Tofu configuration, variables, etc, normally, you'd expect "tofu plan" to tell you a reassuring:

No changes. Your infrastructure matches the configuration.

So, what is going on? 🤔

[1] https://docs.siderolabs.com/kubernetes-guides/advanced-guides/inlinemanifests#how-talos-handles-manifest-resources

#terraform #talos #opentofu #homelab #kubernetes #cilium

My module to deploy Kubrnetes clusters on Proxmox using Talos is now documented, and published on github:

https://github.com/jpetazzo/taloprox/

Last step, perhaps write a blog post about all this? 🤔

#kubernetes #talos #proxmox #homelab #selfhosted

J’ai publié une nouvelle veille open source sur Cryptolab

30 projets issus de mes stars GitHub récentes, avec un angle homelab / petit VPS / veille technique :

- agents IA open source
- sécurité et audit
- monitoring léger
- sauvegardes
- Fediverse
- recherche statique
- outils web

https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/30-projets-open-source/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Homelab #GitHub #VeilleTech #ai #selfhosted

I've used RustDesk to connect remotely to Uncle's computer to help him with stuff ever since TeamViewer enshittified.
I've been using the public RustDesk server, whose performance has gotten progressively worse. As performance has worsened they've been more and more aggressively begging people to self-host their own servers. So today I decided to do that.
#homelab #tailscale #rustdesk #synology #sysadmin (1/5)

Tonight's @homelab adventure has been converting one weird bespoke thing to another weird bespoke thing.

I have a handful of docker services that I want to be able to connect to remotely but I don't want to expose their ports to every interface. Previously, I was pushing the node's tailnet ip into a TAILNET_IP env var and then publishing the port like this:

- ${TAILNET_IP}:9100:9100

That kind of sucks, though, because it means the service is dependent on tailscale to start up, even if that port is only for metrics or whatever.

Tonight I taught my deploy harness to generate a tailscale serve raw config for the host that I set with `ssh root@host tailscale serve set-raw` after the deploy is done.

Then switched all of the instances of the above syntax to :

- 127.0.0.1:9100:9100

This exposes them to localhost, which is still as secure as before because the docker host could always access the container IP directly.

Pretty happy with the result. One less thing for containers to directly depend on.

#homelab #selfhosted

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/115906811590788658

Well, it's the end of an era: my 3 Lenovo M720q are now a full Talos Linux cluster, Proxmox is gone, and the Framework Desktop has been repurposed as a dedicated game station running Bazzite.

Most likely I will migrate from my old Razer laptop to the Framework Desktop, and make it my only workstation, but not today.

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Proxmox #Lenovo #Bazzite #Framework #Razer @homelab

Does anyone in the home lab and/or 3D printing community have experience with 10" printed racks?

I only need 6U right now, but have space for 8U, maybe 10U if I'm pushing. I'm trying to decide if I should buy a metal frame, or if 3D printing is worth the trouble.

#HomeLab #3DPrinting @homelab @3dprinting

That should be enough to wait for the fully automated solution #homelab #openvpn

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Screenshot of a Telegram channel with two recovery notifications sent by Nagios saying the OpenVPN TLS certificates are now valid for 1079 days

This week, I had a new baby girl! My wife is ok, the baby is ok, everybody's ok. This is my third child so I know what to expect from this life changing event. For now, she is asleep most of the time. I even had a good night's sleep last night. I should be fresh and happy.

My brain still wants to do computer stuff. I have to renew a handcrafted TLS certificate in my homelab that will expire soon. I would like to use my fully automated private CA I deployed a few weeks ago but I don't want to break everything so I need to spawn a cloud instance, set up a second VPN server then choose a host in my lab to configure the client before deploying everywhere using the same (tested) procedure.

When my first daughter woke up, she wanted to play video games on my main computer. I booted my laptop, checked if OpenTofu was installed, it was outdated so I started to upgrade the laptop. Then my son woke up. My laptop doesn't have access to the homelab. It doesn't have the OpenStack credentials to spawn a cloud instance. And now everybody is awake.

To conclude, next time I'll focus on only updating the soon to be expired certificate using the manual method that works, instead of implementing a fully automated process that takes time and doesn't work yet.

It's a rainy day, but it's still not the day that I'll update my docker containers to podman quadlet.

PS: It took me nearly 1 hour in fragmented time to write this post 😅

#homelab #tls #openvpn #openstack #life

Having a "reflective" afternoon.

On the topic of free operating systems, I have been playing with these lately, and recommend if it suits usage (alpha order).

- Alpine Linux (my daily driver)
- Chimera Linux
- Elementary Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- Solus Linux

Not "mainstream" suggestions per se, and that's kinda the point. Caveats re: glibc/musl, nvidia support, etc. apply.

If I had to have nvidia support for my primary workstation I'd probably go with Solus (KDE), or at least try it, in spite of systemd.

I'm starting to scratch the surface on

- CachyOS

for my son's gaming rig. Pretty much what it says on the tin. I like it. Arch could use a bit of polish. We'll see how it goes on real hardware.

Others that I haven't run much beyond playing with the iso, but am intrigued by, mostly by intended use case tbh:

- Mint
- Zorin

I used to run these for years and years and years but don't nowadays:

- Arch
- Gentoo

Excellent, but the time intensity ...

~20 years ago I used to run Gentoo in a government research agency data centre. Even came up with an "ansible-like" set of deployment scripts/framework and whatnot in /bin/bash+openssh to manage them (pre-dates Ansible).

Fun times... the time... the time.

Gentoo was bracketed by RHEL in the past and CentOS as the successor. CentOS was fine but gave up a lot of performance way back then. Shifting priorities, server hardware was still following Moore's, and all that.

I flirted with Ubuntu a bit over the years. Could never really get into it back when it was decent. I won't touch it now.

Today, I think I'm done with Debian. Too static for my tastes - stuff gets too stale. Sure, there's Testing/Sid but there's also other options at that point.

Now that I'm a sysadmin just for myself I can embrace using whatever I want. Ha.

I'm all about community projects nowadays.

Corporate software will eventually disappoint you so it pays to just not go there in the first place.

Deep thoughts.

#Linux #RunBSD #HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #AlpineLinux #ChimeraLinux #Elementary #ElementaryOS #FreeBSD
#OpenBSD #SolusLinux #Solus #LinuxMint #ZorinLinux #Gentoo #ArchLinux #CachyOS

What's a good CI/CD to #SelfHost for small #HomeLab #kubernetes ? Build custom images, update deployments with newer images as upstream publishes them, other "usual" tasks.

@homelab

This is a customer appreciation post. Not sponsored.

If you're looking for used hardware for your home lab, check out Untrusted Source. Not only do they have great stuff at a fair price, but their customer service is amazing. Very responsive and knowledgeable.

#HomeLab @homelab

https://store.untrustedsource.com/

Unpopular opinion: I have fought with ZFS under Talos for months, but in reality what I needed was Longhorn.

Yeah, yeah, I now, different things. But that's just to say that ZFS is not the silver bullet that some people try to convince you of.

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #ZFS #Longhorn @homelab

Yeah, I'm plenty aware that using networked volumes with Kubernetes is the better way to go, but I gotta hand it to Longhorn: the distributed replicas make it a breeze to move stuff around and do physical maintenance in the nodes. 👏

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Longhorn @homelab

New blog post! How to configure the Lenovo M720Q Tiny (and probably any other Lenovo) to boot Talos Linux in Secure Boot mode.
#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Lenovo #blog @homelab
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/booting-talos-linux-on-a-lenovo-m720q-tiny/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/115786742434227283

Hey folks, if anyone ever followed my blog post about enrolling the Talos UEFI keys into the Lenovo M720Q Tiny, you might want to look at it again.

I realized I forgot one step, which is completely optional, and may vary according to your security posture, but doing so provides better security.

After you enroll the Talos key, the BIOS switches to "User Mode", which allows the OS to change the keys. Ideally you should go back into the BIOS and change to "Deployed Mode". This way you can only change the keys by physically booting the machine.

Sorry about that.

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Lenovo #blog @homelab

Mauricio Teixeira🐧 » 🌐 2025-12-26 / 2025-12-26
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

New blog post! How to configure the Lenovo M720Q Tiny (and probably any other Lenovo) to boot Talos Linux in Secure Boot mode.
#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Lenovo #blog @homelab
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/booting-talos-linux-on-a-lenovo-m720q-tiny/

Another question for you people from the information superhighway.

I have a APC-1500 Smart UPS that I bought second hand for rather cheap. I bought for it two new 12V 20Ah lead acid batteries. I installed NUT and NUT-webGUI and here is how it looks like:

That 7 minutes sounds rather short for such a low load? And yesterday I had my first real life test, the power was down for 2 minutes, and when it came back, the UPS reported battery level at 13%. And it charged the batteries from that 13% to full charge in less than two hours. Those numbers just don't look right.

@homelab

#ups #homelab

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Screenshot for NUT Web GUI showing my UPS stats: load of 7%, batteries at 100%, and available runtime of 7 minutes.

You don't need to pirate if you want to own your media and self-host Jellyfin #homelab

Here's my guide: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/how-i-rip-dvds-and-blu-rays-my-mac-2022-edition/

New #blog on #BurgeonLab ✍️

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/fix-ssh-lag-over-wifi-with-ethernet/

Ethernet saves the day for my #SSH, headless Raspberry Pi setup! Quick blog about how I set it up with #macOS Internet Sharing.

This is post 30 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #guides #newpost #blogpost #smolweb #techblog #techguides #selfhosting #homelab #ssh #ethernet #raspberryPi #dietpi

I've been running two degraded ZFS arrays for the last few weeks (Debian host).

Yeah, I know. Whatevs.

One of the pools was basically "scratch" backup space and one of the spindles died (breaking the utility of the mirror). Pulled the drive, wiped the remaining, put back in service with minimum fuss as a single drive. I'll throw another spindle at it when drive prices drop again.

The other array had the SSD cache die and it's been chugging along fine ever since. Not a big deal, but from a "experience" point of view it "feels slow" like a working md array.

New SSD arrived in the mail so that'll get sorted sometime today/tomorrow.

So, what's this post about?

Linux peeps, if you are thinking about md arrays, just stop, take the time, and throw 'yer leg over the zfs horse. It's worth it.

#Linux #RunBSD #zfs #md #mdadm #raid #homelab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

I have what feels like a silly @homelab problem.

I have a couple services where I want to build a multi-arch image using docker buildx, which used to work fabulously until I configured Renovate to pin docker versions. Different architectures have different docker SHAs and Renovate can only pin one, so when it tries to build the other one it blows up.

Is this a solved problem? I'd rather keep the pins if possible.

#homelab #selfhosted

Who uses #DeltaChat and what do you think of it?

Also, any #HomeLab'ers?

There are so many p2p e2ee chat thingies these days I don't have time to look at one let alone compare them. 😱

I like that #DeltaChat seems to have a community that supports it with cash and relays. But is it any good?!

Last I tried was #Jami which kindof worked but at least one mate had problems with it and these things need to work for everyone.

First of probably many posts about my wacky and wonderful new homelab setup. This is a high level overview of the setup. I’ll cover more specifics later. Maybe interesting if you’re curious about other ways of hosting besides the usual Linux and Docker setup.

https://blog.ianwwagner.com/overview-of-my-new-homelab-setup.html

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab

My homelab is now using NRPE with TLS thanks to the private PKI I deployed this week-end.

#homelab #selfhosting #tls #ssl #stepca

I'm upgrading the VPS from Debian 11 to Debian 13 which is the OpenVPN server connecting all my home servers. If it goes down, I'll lose 2/3 of the infra. Which me luck 🙏🏻

#homelab #selfhosting #debian #upgrade

New blog post! I wanted to configure my VS Code to use Multi-root Workspaces inside a Dev Container, but I could not find a blog, tutorial or YouTube video about that, so I wrote my own. Check out this powerful way to aggregate multiple repositories in the same workspace, and have a development environment that is fully isolated from your main OS.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #DevOps #SRE #VSCode #Coding @homelab

https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/vs-code-multi-root-workspaces-with-devcontainers/

Homepage is a fast, open-source dashboard you can self-host as your personal start page.

Keep your bookmarks, services, and widgets (weather, stats, more) in one clean place -- fully under your control.

👉 https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
👉 More privacy-friendly tools: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Homelab #Privacy #Productivity #DigitalMinimalism

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Screenshot of homepage dashboard project: “A modern, fully static, fast, secure fully proxied, highly customizable application dashboard with integrations for over 100 services and translations into multiple languages. Easily configured via YAML files or through docker label discovery.” Badges show: build passing, codecov 89%, localized 58%, chat 1.1k online, docs passing, sponsors 2.

Achievement unlocked 🔓

My homelab has now valid internal TLS certificates automatically renewed by certbot on a step-ca server.

#homelab #selfhosting #stepca #tls #certbot

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Screenshot of the "certbot certificates" command showing information about a TLS certificate generated on one of the servers in my homelab.

One day, I will convert all my Docker based Ansible roles to Podman quadlets. But today is a sunny day.

#homelab #selfhosting #ansible #docker #podman

Step CA configured with PostgreSQL backend and the ACME provider in my homelab. Clients trust the CA. Next steps: configure certbot and add monitoring to check certificates expiration.

#homelab #selfhosting #postgresql #certbot #tls #stepca

Does anyone know of a good self-hosted Kanban board and/or project management software that works as similar to Jira as possible?

I know my question is going to make someone mad, but I just don't want to switch context way too much when managing my personal projects.

Something similar to Trello is also acceptable.

I currently use Kanboard, but the interface is way too limited. I understand their choices, but I would like something more rich/responsive/automated.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #Jira #Kanban @homelab

Running Podman in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.

I just published a deep dive on managing OCI containers the Unix way: daemonless, rootless, and natively integrated with systemd via Quadlets.

I cover:
- Real secrets management
- Auto-updates via systemd timers
- The Docker compatibility layer

This is the guide I wish I had when making the switch.

Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/podman-in-production-quadlets-secrets-auto-updates-and-docker-compatibility/

#Podman #Linux #DevOps #Systemd #Homelab #Sysadmin #Containers

Okay, I just ran into a similar issue which re-prioritized it higher for me to implement... But hey, here it is! You can now also use ACME with any other ACME compatible CAs rather than just Let's Encrypt. In this example, you can see it with my own Certificate Authority (CA) "gyptazy open-source solutions", which is operated by StepCA.

I'm really happy to see how PegaProx becomes better and better every day... Over Easter, several new cool features took place!

If you miss anything, let us know!

Blog: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/
GitHub: https://github.com/PegaProx/project-pegaprox/
Official Website: https://pegaprox.com

#PVE #Prox #ProxmoxVE #PegaProx #PDC #PDCM #virtualization #community #foss #opensource #free #management #enterprise #homelab #lab

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Custom ACME Integration in PegaProx with gyptazy open-source solutions CA example

My unbound servers are deployed. I can now remove the "ansible_host" variables from my inventory.

#homelab #selfhosting #unbound #ansible

But before, I need to configure a local DNS zone, with unbound for example, using a .internal TLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal
#unbound #homelab #selfhosting

I have been managing my own CA for NRPE and OpenVPN by hand but I always forget how to (re)generate the certificates. I'll give step-ca a try this weekend and follow the @jwildeboer blog post https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/07/letsencrypt-homelab-stepca/
#homelab #selhosting #stepca

For real, many people asked me for their smaller and mid-sized environments, how to handle remote syslog of their nodes. I had some ideas (some of you may have already found my Rust interpretation of this) but I think having this included in #PegaProx as a centralized management interface makes more sense.

So, PegaProx comes with an own syslog server (ipv4/ipv6, udp/tcp, encrypted/unencrypted support) and is wired to the interface within the resources tab. Providing a quick overview of all your logs and filter options. The next thing is wiring it to the notification system of PegaProx, allowing automated alerting. Might be nice to quickly identify when the quorum got lost - all built-in into PegaProx!

#easter #development #coding #python #opensource #foss #pve #proxmox #proxmoxve #virtualization #vmware #alternatives #free #logging #security #gyptazy #proxmoxdatacenter #homelab #enterprise

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A syslog integration (server & frontend audit) for PegaProx for Proxmox based clusters

I have rebooted all servers of my homelab while listening to music on my self-hosted Navidrome instance. I had no music interruption. Awesome resilience! I'm impressed.

#homelab #selfhosting #navidrome

Needed some lable tags compatible with the 30x14mm labels of my cheap fichero label printer. Couldnt find a model so i designed one myself. Maybe also useful to label Ethernet cables etc.
https://www.printables.com/model/1662193-cable-tag-for-30mm-x-14mm-labels
@homelab #homelab #3dprint #3dprinting

@jellyfin

#selfhosting #homelab @homelab

The feedback was honestly amazing. Many were impressed by how PegaProx brings essential enterprise grade features to Proxmox clusters that are still missing today. We can clearly see the gaps that were fixed by #ProxLB, #ProxSnap, #ProxCLMC, #ProxPatch and many other ones! Keep in mind, PegaProx is free and fully #opensource!

That said, we know there's always room for improvement. Whether it is major enhancements or small quality of life tweaks, every detail matters. Over the weekend, I took your feedback from the calls seriously and integrated a number of improvements to make PegaProx even more intuitive and powerful.

Your input drives this project forward. If you feel something is missing or could be improved, let us know!

PS: Pegaprox also support #XCP (#XCPng) ans corss-cluster / cross-hypervisor migrations. So, you can quickly jump over to XCP 🙂

Blog: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/
Website: https://pegaprox.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/PegaProx/project-pegaprox/

#PVE #Prox #ProxmoxVE #homelab #enterprise #virtualization #foss #datacenter #manager #python #python3

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PegaProx Web-Frontend as a multi-cluster Proxmox manager with Enterprise features

@alarig hier tu faisais du peering. Aujourd’hui je mets en place un petit #homelab :)

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3 serveurs Lenovo Thinkcentre empilés pour faire un homelab.

I did a short write-up on how I fixed the issue with my personal #Nextcloud instance freezing/hanging after upgrading to Nextcloud 33.

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/p/nextcloud-freezinghanging-when-viewing

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

I had noticed since upgrading to #Nextcloud 33 that when I would open a folder of images for the first time since upgrading, MariaDB would use quite a lot of CPU time and Nextcloud would stop responding for several minutes until it finished whatever it was doing. Turns out the issue was something to do with the image preview store. To fix it I just ran:

sudo -u www-data php occ preview:cleanup -vvv

This cleans up the stored previews and seems to have fixed my issue.

#HomeLab

Quick writeup on building a Docker image for Caddy with DNS verification to get a wildcard cert with trusted root going for internal services. #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/caddy-dns-verification/

Hola people of the Fediverse

I again ask for some recommendations!

Send me your favorite Blogs or your own Blogs

Either because the Creator is Awesome or because the single Blogpost is good

Any kind:

• IT
• Just Slice of life
• Cooking
• Science Specific
• Art
• or anything else

i am really curious :3

Boosts are welcome so this search travels wide and far

#blog #homelab #selfhosted #linux #blogging #indieweb #smallWeb

💡 Turn a Raspberry Pi into your own NAS with FreeBSD!

Building a simple NAS doesn’t require expensive hardware.

In our latest blog post, we walk through how to build a lightweight Network Attached Storage (NAS) system using FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi. With the latest FreeBSD release and tools like Samba, you can quickly set up reliable network file sharing on minimal hardware.

Read the full post:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/build-a-nas-using-freebsd-on-a-raspberry-pi/

#FreeBSD #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #NAS #HomeLab

In our latest video, we walk through how to install and run FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi and turn it into a lightweight Network Attached Storage (NAS) system.

If you’ve been curious about running FreeBSD on single-board computers or building your own NAS, this is a great place to start.

Watch it on our YouTube channel and let us know what you’d build with it: https://youtu.be/xqFiTRYo1fk

#FreeBSD #RaspberryPi #NAS #OpenSource #HomeLab

There's never been a better time to build your own router—a practice which the FCC will hopefully not *also* ban for US #homelab consumers :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oL0qVSWJE

"ZFS with a striped configuration can be more space-efficient compared to other setups like RAIDZ, as it does not require additional space for parity. However, the actual usable space will depend on the number of disks and the specific configuration used."

With this in mind, I started to migrate data from striped #zpool to #Raidz1

There was around 10TB of data to move. But after moving all that data, it took around 20TB on a two-drive raidz1. Some #BlackMagicFuckery

#zfs #nas #homelab

#Linux #LinuxServer #Homeserver #Homelab

Instead of having a lot of standalone Ansible roles on my forgejo instance, I have created my own collection.

Let me announce you the first release of the "jriou.general" Ansible collection 🚀 https://git.riou.xyz/jriou/ansible

#selfhosting #homelab #ansible #certbot #coller #firefly #forgejo #galene #golang #navidrome

#homelab #sysadmin

I documented my decision of continuing to use proxmox in my #homelab
https://www.lctrt.net/posts/proxmox/
#devops

UPD.: Oh, wait. It is actually a VM with Linux =(

So #Asustor NAS can be turned into a #Linux server officially with a couple of clicks.

https://www.asustor.com/admv2?type=3&sub=134&lan=eng

How cool is that!

#NAS #HomeLab #HomeServer #LinuxServer

Today's the first time in a long time that I really truly have the urge to throw my whole #homelab setup away. It feels too complicated again.

Started with an alert that my website was down. Hm, load average on the 1vCPU VPS is like 15 and there are a whole bunch of `docker system dial-stdio` processes. Apparently my deploy system leaves those behind?

Ok. Adjust the deploy system to ssh to each machine and run docker compose there vs setting DOCKER_SOCKET=ssh://the-hostname/ and running compose from the forgejo worker.

Oh, but the shed machine's docker is way out of date. Ok, update that and reboot.... wait it does this thing where it decides it doesn't have a boot disk when I reboot it. Trudge out to the shed and hard reboot it.

Now every machine's docker or compose package is way out of date. Ugh. Update everything. Green build finally.

Except the backup NAS keeps deciding to fall over dead, which probably isn't good but I haven't had time to diagnose yet.

UGH.

Things I feel compelled to keep:

- Home Assistant and friends
- *arr stack and friends
- website and VMSave

Obviously not going to throw away the new machine or the disk shelf, but maybe I can but out the TrueNAS server. Maybe I can drop down to plain Debian on the metal instead of Proxmox.

Do I need the machine in the shed? It's running a zwave radio, which I need to keep but have other solutions for. It's also running an ADSB feeder, which I think is fun but not necessary.

Do I need the box in my bedroom that proxies my CPAP data onto the NAS? Not really, I could just walk the SD card around when I'm curious.

Do I need the N100 machine? It's currently running Home Assistant and friends along with a zwave radio and a separate LXC for Unbound, but again I have other solutions for those things.

#homelab @homelab #selfhosted

New blog post! It has been long overdue, so I finally decided to publish a (simple) diagram of my home lab. I got to a point where I think I need to downsize a little bit, so it felt like a good point to document the current snapshot. I hope you can get some ideas out of it. Feel free to ask me any questions.
#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Proxmox @homelab
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/current-state-of-my-home-lab/

I wanted to move the empty boxes of power supplies that were lying on the floor in the basement next to my #homelab to the ceiling with other boxes when I discovered that some of them were not empty! I thought the 1000w was mounted on my gaming pc but it's not. I have a 550w too.

It's not an #ad for Corsair. It's just the best quality 😎

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Picture of five yellow and black boxes of Corsair power supplies in my ceilling

Server slow and low on RAM:

```
# sysctl fs.file-nr
fs.file-nr = 806208 0 1000000
```

Server rebooted and happy:

```
# sysctl fs.file-nr
fs.file-nr = 36672 0 1000000
```

... guess I have some investigation to do.

#homelab

Recently, I added #ProxSnap to #PegaProx which allows you to quickly find snapshots of your VMs and Containers. You can also filter them by date to quickly identify older or even outdated ones and clean them up at a central point!

ProxSnap: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxSnap
PegaProx: https://pegaprox.com
Blog Post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/

#pve #prox #homelab #virtualization #vmware #alternatives #opensource #enterprise #python3 #coding #development #foss #devops

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PegaProx with ProxSnap integration for Proxmox VE Clusters

En attendant de voir si ça finit en article ou en vidéo, je vous ai déjà préparé le terrain. Si vous voulez le déployer proprement (testé et validé en LXC Docker), mon Docker Compose et son fichier .env sont dispos sur mon ByteStash.

🌍 Site officiel : https://proxcenter.io
🔥 Le snippet ByteStash : https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/849d4b39f08647dbff1cfee83d681f2f

Affaire à suivre... 😏

#Proxmox #HomeLab #Docker #SelfHosted #ProxCenter #BlablaLinux #SysAdmin

Gestern war ich bei der #C3Selfhosting User Group. Und es waren (mal wieder) überwiegend als Männer gelesene Personen dort.

Warum ist das so und viel wichtiger: Wie können wir die Diversität an der Stelle erhöhen?

Ich mache mir Gedanken darüber und freue mich über euer Feedback / eure Meinung.

#selfhosting #homelab #linux #diversity

Well I’m working on building a honeypot for the homelab. Going to be working an LLM into it, so now I have to buy another 5060Ti. So I’ll technically be building my second LLM server. Because I want this isolated from the rest of the network for obvious reasons. #AI #Cybersecurity #homelab

Tonight I'll be trying to set up a runner for Gitea actions. I hope to get it to "build" docker images automatically on changes, then publish them to Gitea's container image registry: https://docs.gitea.com/usage/packages/container

It'll be the first time I've worked with gitea actions and gitea runners, so lots of trial and error to be had!

#gitea #selfhosted #sysadmin #homelab #docker

The Prometheus instance in my homelab just blew up. I need to re boot the frozen host, quickly stop the service then reduce the retention again.

#prometheus #homelab #selfhosting

Current Projects/Ideas:

* Add WAF/Appsec to Crowdsec deployments
* Add a few more Prometheus exporters
* Refactor Talos terraform to use modules
* New single node test cluster either on raspi or Proxmox
* Build disaster-recovery cluster, and consider converting some additional workloads to single-node clusters
* A few enchancements to upstream charts
* Zot registry pull through cache (maybe with container scanning?)
* Configure some initial alerts, AlertManager, or just use Grafana?
* A few more dashboard updates to the cluster health dashboard
* Migrate backups to Garage and off of minIO

@homelab@fedigroups.social
#HomeLab #Kubernetes #SelfHosted

Trying some traffic shaping on my PFSense box today.

The idea is to give priority In/Out of the internet to traffic that directly affects the wife and I.
HTTP/S, VoIP, Streaming Media, etc are all prioritized over other things such as Steam downloads, Linux ISO downloads, etc.

With any luck, this will make our daily usage smoother by limiting the amount of bandwidth taken up by lower-priority services.

We've got a DnD session tonight (with the VTT hosted by me) with the traditional discord voice chat, so we'll see if that makes a difference!

#PFsense #qos #sysadmin #homelab

Upgraded my Raspberry Pi 4B from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43 using the offline upgrade process. I documented what worked for me as a gist at https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251107UpgradeToFedora43Raspi4.md and couldn't have done it without the little tip from @krist — Thx, Krist!

#Selfhost #Homelab @homelab #Fedora #RaspberryPi

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Screenshot from the cockpit session on my Raspberry Pi 4B, showing that it is happily running Fedora 43 now.

Can someone recommend a good #irc server software (and client)?
Maybe with a bouncer integrated or a webview or smth

Yes i know i can look it up online but i want personal opinions :3
In my opinion better when you had no contact with something so far

#selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #irc

Ok, my #homelab NAS took a power hit last night. Power went off across the whole house for like 5 seconds. It was in a temporary location and not on a UPS. Since it has come back, it does not see any of its hard drives.

This is how amazing the mastodon #selfhosting community is, though. I came here to start typing out the problem and try to ask for help. I had tried an awful lot of things and nothing was working. So as I carefully reproduced the error, and made sure to take some photos and screenshots that I was going to share... it started working.

Thanks mastodon crew! You all are the best rubber ducks that money can't buy.

Anyone in the home lab community using Proxmox OCI to LXC conversion on a regular basis, other than just "I tested it once"? I'm trying to gauge whether it's worth using it while still in tech preview, or just wait until they do it "for real".

#HomeLab @homelab

Just found this - some homework for the home lab:

My self-hosted Forgejo runner setup https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/my-self-hosted-forgejo-runner-setup/ #Ansible, #Debian, #Docker, #Fedora, #Forgejo, #Homelab, #Linux, #Ubuntu

I had forgotten about Amanda backup. I used it in my early Linux days, and wouldn't have thought it's still in use.

The Amanda backup system and "dump promotion" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/AmandaDumpPromotionIssue

#backup #homelab #linux

Last night instead of going to bed I forgot about daylight saving time and added a statically defined #ipv6 #wireguard mesh between my #homelab servers.

Now I can use that instead of #tailscale for the secure data plane. Tailscale is great and I'll probably keep it for the management plane. The way it aggressively idles connections combined with the first packet seemingly always hitting a DERP server makes stuff feel a lot slower than it should.

#selfhosted @homelab

Partner is away next week - and you know what that means....

I can break the home network without getting in trouble

#Networking #HomeLab

I finally managed to replace the power supply and that was it! Or probably the countless cheap molex to SATA adapters 😅 #homelab

There's definitely an issue with the (very old) power supply. When I swap the SATA power cables from one disk to another, the other disk becomes faulty. Let's buy a new one then. #homelab

Anybody out there backing up mariadb / mysql databases? It seems to me that mariadb-dump is the right way to do it, but it generates one big fat file for the entire database server.

The most common use I have for a database backup is to restore either an entire table or an entire database. I super rarely restore an entire database server.

I can't seem to find anybody's simple python or shell script to basically call show databases;, get the list of databases, and then dump them one database per file. It seems like such an obvious solution, but my Internet searches are coming up empty. Anybody got a pointer?

I have some servers that have multiple databases. Some are like 10Mb or 100Mb, and then one database is 6Gb. If you have this 6Gb backup file and you want to restore the 10Mb database, that's a PITA.

How has nobody done this yet? Am I thinking about it wrong?

#homelab #selfhosted #mariadb #mysql

Looks like #synapse is moving #minio way. All that mess with the server components, versions, and lack of documentation on all of that forces me to look into an alternative. Well, they are writing docs right now, but mostly for enterprise.

I found the #tuwunel documentation very friendly. Thinking about migration.
#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #matrix

Question for people that have UPSes:

What is your opinion/experience/knowledge on the fire hazard of having a UPS? I am seriously considering one for my homelab, but it will be in the attic, and I am concerned that if the UPS catches on fire some day, my whole roof will be gone, and that would be not great. I already have the UPS, I haven't yet bought the batteries for it. The UPS that I have uses two lead-acid 12V 18Ah batteries.

@homelab

#ups #homelab

Hey fedi, I'm looking for a replacement for nextcloud. The only nextcloud functionality I use is its file syncing capability, and I was wondering if there's a replacement that does that without being as chonky as nextcloud is.

My requirements:

• Easy to deploy on kubernetes (which sadly eliminates syncthing)
• Has sync clients for iOS, and Linux
• Self hosted

cc @homelab

#homelab #SelfHosted #NextCloud

Tips for my fellow homelabers:

Write the serial numbers of your disks and their physical position in the case. When a disk will fail, and that could take years, you'll thank yourself because you'll have forgotten where is the damn failing disk.

On Linux, add the "nofail" argument to the mountpoints in the fstab for your data disks (not the system) so you can reboot the host safely. The host will not be stuck because the disk you are replacing is not available anymore.

#homelab #selfhosting

That moment when you have a hard disk drive working when you plug it with USB but showing sector errors when you plug it with SATA. Let's go re-open the server, check all the cables, eventually change the "faulty" cable, put it back on and pray 🙏 #homelab

Pangolin 1.16.0 est sorti.

Nouvelle fonctionnalité : support du SSH auth-daemon.

Connexion SSH aux serveurs distants en utilisant l’identité Pangolin et une authentification par certificats.

• Plus besoin de créer ou copier des clés SSH
• Génération et signature automatique de clés temporaires
• Push automatique sur le serveur distant
• Création ou mise à jour de l’utilisateur
• Connexion directe depuis le terminal

Docs : https://docs.pangolin.net/manage/ssh

Très propre comme évolution pour simplifier la gestion d’accès SSH dans une infra distribuée.

#pangolin #devops #ssh #homelab

With the time I have left today, I won't be able to spawn virtual machines to test my docker based Ansible roles on my Forgejo runners #homelab

Q to the #Homelab community: I've done a #RaspberryPi 4 #NAS before using multiple SSDs, connected to USB and it's worked great. Now I'm planning to set up another RPi4 NAS, but this time using dual 3.5" HDDs - I imagine also connected to USB.

I know 3.5" HDDs are a different beast tho since they require 12V, does anyone know if using a docking station like this by #ORICO would work? I imagine the docking station sorts out the power requirements of the 2x 3.5" HDDs, but I'm wondering if the single USB 3.0 connection to the RPi4 would be fine, or would it 'suffocate' the Pi?

I'm expecting the RPi4 to have 2x USB devices connected to it - one would be the docking station (with 2x 3.5" HDDs), and another USB stick for backups of the microSD card (which is the boot device).

🔗 https://shopee.com.my/multibrand_electronic_store.my/5982247066

I want to self host without vps/cdn/cloudflare. So much information today, am I over thinking this?

https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide

Have a guide or words of wisdom?
Docker swarm instead of kubernates?
Docker compose?
Microceph/ cephFS?
Pgtune?
Docker+Nginx?
CrowdSec?
DenyHosts?
fail2ban?
OPNsense?
pfSense?
LibreTranslate?

https://thenewstack.io/optimizing-mastodon-performance-with-sidekiq-and-redis-enterprise/

https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2023-12-12_mastodon-docker-rootless/

https://youtu.be/nmas_zbcMeU

#help #fediverse #hosting #selfhost #homelab #advice #new #learning #kubernates #docker #server #altText

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Is it self hosting when you have to rely on unethical hyperscaler infrastructure?

Want to show one great PCIe expansion card for #HomeLab|s
This card here allows to put 4 NVMEs into a single half-height PCIE x16 (or two in x8; 1 in x4) slot.

Two go on the front and two on the back. The ones on the back MAY have clearance issues depending on how large the cooler on your NVMEs is. However as you've to slot it into a x16 slot in order to use these two anyway you're probably slotting it into the top most one so there shouldn't be another card in the way

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005009693338392.html

Sometimes enshittification can finally force you to massively improve your @homelab setup.

• Broadcom cancelling bitnami's containers lead me to move to the cloudnative-pg operator, giving me easier to manage postgres instances, clustering, replication, S3 bucket backups, point in time recovery, and so much more. This is just so much better than the bitnami helmcharts, that I wish I did this much earlier.
• MinIO all but stopping support for the open source version to the point of removing features from the open source version lead me to move to garage, which, while not giving me any new options, did lead me to rethink how I did my backups and other storage.
• Uptime Kuma explicitly accepting slop code lead me to set up victoria metrics which is a less chonky Prometheus replacement, while remaining compatible with the amazing prometheus ecosystem. Now I have pretty grafana dashboards for so many of my apps, while also having much better alerting when things misbehave. Sure, Uptime Kuma was simpler, but it was also "baby's first monitoring" system, and this setup is better in every way.

This makes it possible that I can now upgrade @gotosocial by scaling down the pod, then bringing it back up with the new version, without having to manually make a backup, as the point-in-time recovery of the cloudnative-pg operator means I can restore the database to any point in its history, including right before the upgrade.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted

Automate the most repetitive operational task in Proxmox: keeping cluster nodes updated! ProxPatch drains, migrates, patches, and reboots nodes in a controlled rolling fashion — no downtime, no manual intervention.

ProxPatch is written in Rust and fully #opensource.

Website: https://proxpatch.de
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxPatch

#PVE #homelab #enterprise #Debian #PatchManagement #ProxmoxVE #Security #ProxLB #SecurityUpdateManagement #Automation #Rustlang

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ProxPatch for Proxmox VE Clusters logo

I had asked this idk a year or forever ago, but what do people like these days for making diagrams?

@homelab@fedigroups.social #Homelab #SelfHosted

@homelab_de

Dieses Wochenende stand die Einrichtung von Grafana, InfluxDB3 und Telegraf im Homelab an.

Grafana und InfluxDB3 als Container, Telegraf nativ.

Hintergrund ist die Entscheidung von Icinga nur gegen einen Obulus von 5000€ pro Jahr Zugriff auf deren RPM-Pakete für RockyLinux, RHEL, etc zu gewähren.

Bis jetzt habe ich beruflich immer Nagios Monitoring Tools eingesetzt.
Jetzt möchte ich Grafana vom Beiwerk für schöne Visualisierungen in Icinga zum voll ausgebauten Monitoring Tool befördern und später auch die Alarmierung testen.

Demnächst installiere ich noch Elasticsearch, Kibana und die Beats bzw. den Elastic-Agent um Daten zu erfassen und erstelle aus der Datenquelle weitere Panels und Dashboards.

#observability #monitoring #homelab #linux #influxdb #docker #icinga

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Screenshot des Grafana Dashboards mit aufbereiteten Daten aus InfluxDB3. Die Daten werden durch Telegraf gesammelt und in InfluxDB eingetragen. Dort können sie dann mit einer SQL Syntax in verschiedene Visualisierungen gerendert werden.

Ich habe jetzt ein kleines Skript im Einsatz, das jede Minute die IP-Adresse prüft und die Verbindung automatisch repariert 👍

#NixOS #WireGuard #Homelab #SelfHosting #Linux

https://burningboard.net/@tux/116110940390482418

Syntax debate time!

How many spaces to indent YAML lists with?

zero:

  ingress:
  - fromEndpoints:
    - matchLabels:
        app.kubernetes.io/instance: k8s-monitoring-alloy-metrics

  ingress:
    - fromEndpoints:
        - matchLabels:
            app.kubernetes.io/instance: k8s-monitoring-alloy-metrics

Ended up going for a combination of Victoria Metrics/Grafana/AlertManager and other tools that belong to that ecosystem. I've used prometheus often enough, but always found prometheus to be too chonky for my homelab setup, but VM promised less RAM use, and it delivered. So now I'm building grafana dashboards and much more advanced alerting/monitoring than Uptime Kuma could ever do. Bonus points for so many apps having prometheus stats endpoints, which means I now have dashboards for stuff like this GoToSocial instance and much more.

All in all, a much better setup than Uptime Kuma could bring, even if it is more complicated to setup.

@homelab #HomeLab #SelfHosted #Monitoring #Prometheus #VictoriaMetrics #UptimeKuma