I was doing some preparation to migrate my InfluxDB data to a different host, and I realized that I've been storing metrics since 2020.

* From sensors I no longer have
* From hosts that have been long decommissioned
* From a house that I no longer live

And yet, it hurts me to think of all the data I *should* be cleaning up. Not even corporate infrastructure metrics live that long.

I need to seriously reflect on how to let that go...

#HomeLab @homelab

Ich wollte nur ein Backup, bekam aber einen goldenen Käfig. Mein neuester Exkurs führt vom schicken UniFi-Designobjekt zum ehrlichen Ugreen-Werkzeugkasten.

Wie ich TrueNAS auf widerspenstiger Hardware installierte, warum 128KB Small Blocks den N100 zum Fliegen bringen und wie „Wintermute“ endlich seine Bestimmung fand. Knausrigkeit als IT Ingenieurskunst! 🐧

https://www.pandolin.io/projekt-homebase-exkurs-backup-stage-2/

#RebelHomebase #TrueNAS #ZFS #SelfHosting #HomeLab #OpenSource #Linux #Pandolin #BeAVoice #DigitaleSouveränität

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Ein direkter Vergleich zweier NAS-Systeme auf meinem heimische Schreibtisch: Links das minimalistische, weiße Ubiquiti UniFi NAS 2, rechts das funktionale, schwarze Ugreen DXP2800. Im Hintergrund zeigt ein Monitor ein detailliertes Grafana-Dashboard mit grünen und blauen Graphen, die den Live-Status des ZFS-Speicherpools visualisieren.

New blog post! I'm preparing some topology changes in my home lab, so I had to spin up a new Talos Linux control plane node on my Proxmox Cluster. As it already happened before, enabling secure boot required some manual setup. This blog post might help if want to do the same.
#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Proxmox @homelab
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/booting-talos-on-a-proxmox-vm/

Today I finally upgraded my CloudNativePG DB from v17-bookworm to v18.1-trixie (minimal), and added Barman Cloud to backup to an external S3 bucket instead of relying on Kopia (filesystem).

A bit disappointing that client side encryption (GPG) still isn’t supported. It only supports SSE-S3 and SSE-KMS.

#homelab #postgresql #k8s #kubernetes @homelab

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗯 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸-𝗜𝗻!
What’s the most exciting project you’re working on in your homelab right now? Share your setups, experiments, or future plans below!
#homelab #selfhosting

I also upgraded dovecot from version 2.3 to 2.4 as part of an OS upgrade.

Immediate breakage all of the place. Apparently the config files between versions are incompatible in both syntax and variable names, so ive just spent a few hours rebuilding my config from scratch.

Thanks Ubuntu!

Yet another nudge for me to move my dovecot capability to an enterprise Linux host and star managing its config via ansible.

#sysadmin #homelab #dovecot #ubuntu

Just took a look at my PFSense box, and saw that my secondary OpenVPN connection was down.
Looked at the provider's site, and it turns out that they deprecated OpenVPN a while back!

So, tonight has consisted of me learning about and setting up: Wireguard

I'm back in action now, and looking forward to seeing whether this new VPN protocol will have any speed benefits for me!

#homelab #sysadmin #openvpn #wireguard #pfsense

Visible network layers in my #homelab =)

This might be of interest to the #Homelab #Selfhosted #selfhosting crowd: #ubiquity seem to be supplying the Russian military with communications equipment, and helping with sanctions evasion. They know about it and don’t prevent it. https://hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/

That settles the question of whether I want to redo my home network with that vendor 🤷‍♂️.

Ich mag die Backup Lösung von Veeam sehr. Vor allem unter Linux kann man damit leicht Image-Basierte Backups machen selbst mit ext4. Leider ist das Scheduling gerade unter Linux nicht gut. Deshalb habe ich eine Lösung mit SystemD gebaut. Ich habe einen Blogeintrag geschrieben der beschreibt wie das ging. Am ende vom Betrag findet ihr auch direkt einen Link zum Code.

https://cperrin.xyz/2026/01/28/veeam-backups-unter-linux-mit-systemd-triggern/

#linux #backup #veeam #sysadmin #homelab

Yesterday evening I opened my task board with all the unfinished and planned things in my #homelab… closed it and started a new project.

I feel a need to have a serious conversation with my brain.

But the project is cool and already has a funny name. I’ll keep it in secret until the first release, though, if such a fantastic thing happens.
#development #softwareDevelopment #indiedev

Flannel, by Bath & Body Works. When you want to remember that fresh scent of a brand new cluster.
#HomeLab #Kubernetes @homelab

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Picture of the Flannel scent kit by Bath & Body Works. Cologne, Eau de Toilette, Body Cream and Face Wash.

The 3D printable 10 inch rackmount PDU (v3) turned out pretty well! Matches my custom printed vent panels too.

All designed in OpenSCAD, all printable on a teeny Voron Zero.

#3dprinting #homelab

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a 1u by 10inch rack mount piece of hardware in black. Each side has three mounting holes. The only other feature on this side is an IEC inlet and switch.

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The other side of the PDU, showing several North American power sockets.

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The PDU surrounded by 1u vent panels. The vent panels have a hexagonal pattern with a green filter.

Channelling a little of my inner @geerlingguy. I've setup authenticated NTP with National Research Council of Canada's NTP servers. 🕛

#homelab #selfhosting #time #canada

Makes it easy to spot old snapshots at a glance and clean them up before they cause trouble.

My PR was just merged, bringing my #ProxSnap idea into the #PegaProx project.

Really happy to contribute and see this feature become part of such a great tool. Nico, Marcus and Laura are doing great there!

Not aware of project PegaProx? Here you can find more:

Blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/
Release 0.6.2: https://github.com/PegaProx/project-pegaprox/releases/tag/v0.6.2
ProxSnap: https://gyptazy.com/proxsnap/

#PVE #homelab #Prox

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ProxSnap alike integration in PegaProx

TFW you properly configure you alarm and notification templates.

It took me a few years to realize there were two different templates, and another two years to start trying it, and it's not finished, but it's progress.

I used the following video, because I find Grafana's docs confusing and not clear enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSrQGKeZwQ

#grafana #HomeLab

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Two grafana alerts, The first includes a lot of irrelevant info and the important data is hard to find. The second is succinct and easy to read.

I installed the #Plex app on my brother's TV during my last visit to his place. Created an account for them and shared my library. They were sceptical.

Now they are using it regularly and are requesting new movies =) I'm happy and thinking about an #Overseerr

#homelab #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting

RE: https://learnk8s.news/@K3sDaily/115967620720994818

I don't use Nix, but I'm pretty sure this very niche solution might be wanted by a few people. 😄
#HomeLab @homelab

Is anybody using the Kubernetes External-DNS with the Unifi provider? I'm having this crazy idea, but a) there are two plugins to choose from and b) I would like to hear experiences about how stable that is.

#HomeLab #Kubernetes #Unifi @homelab

My #homelab is organized again. Took a chance during internet outage to make it look nice 😊

Did you know you can #selfhost a #fishtank on your #Linux server and then #SSH into it?

https://github.com/cmatsuoka/asciiquarium/tree/master

#selfhosting #homelab #asciiquarium #asciiart

Probably not useful ideas that I have bouncing around that I still want to work on as leaning exercises and something to tinker with. I shouldn't look at either of these.... I have much more important and useful things to do, like fixing backups and getting my resume ready....

1. SSH Certs via a local SSH CA.
* PKI is neat, SSH certs are different, and I could trust the CA so no trust on first use. Servers could trust the CA so no need for authorized keys files to distribute
* I'd still need a backup in case I had issues with cert management
* I have too few users and hosts for this to be actually worth the time/complexity

2. True Minimal Ceph cluster
* The docs and most users will give various minimal sized Ceph clusters. Cowards the lot of them.
* Single node cluster with 3 or 4 disks, OSD failure domain
* Or maybe a single OSD backed by a ZFS block device, replicas=1 lets goooooo!
* Backup the mon/mds directories to avoid data loss
* Gets me the ability to send data to it from another Ceph and use the object storage features without needing an entire cluster
#Homelab #BadIdeas #Ceph #PKI

@mmeier @rachel
I have been chewing on this kind of dilemma of where to put critical workloads. I have some apps that are dependencies for my main k8s cluster to come up from scratch, which already happened at least once (full rebuild). They live in a Raspberry Pi, but I want to move them out of there. Building a single node k8s would make me slip into the same complexity and probably circular dependency. For that reason, I'm still trying to decide whether they will go on a VM or LXC, but they will be plain Docker Compose resources for sure. Easier to bring them up in case of disaster.
#HomeLab @homelab

Solving all the issues I found one by one in my #homelab after a major internet outage.

Seems like the time sync issue on the #Philips #Hue bridge is ongoing. It pops out here and there periodically, and no general solution has been found.

It's not a big deal until you are using time-based scenes, like me.

So now I'm trying to trick the bridge into using my local #NTP server.

#selfhosted #PhilipsHue #SelfHost #SelfHosting

I finally got that out of my head ​​

SSH Certificates! ​​

* every* host has a ssh host-cert
* clients have the host-cert pubkey added at the system level, no more worrying about known hosts/trustonfirstuse
* the above is achieved via a simple ansible playbook if I add more hosts
* user certs can be obtained via cli command that calls OIDC or uses device flow
* Forgejo trusts the user CA, any user with access to git via the above can push to forgejo
* I created an entirely offline ssh backup CA, and added it's user CA to each host, I can dust off the key and make a temp ssh cert if needed in case everything else eats shit

This was entirely unnecessary, the user count is low, number of hosts is low, and I had to keep backup paths around to deal with edge cases anyway (such as network devices not being to trust a user CA, as one example)

but it was a neat distraction, and most importantly kept the horrors from bothering me for a few days

@homelab@fedigroups.social
#Homelab #SSH #Forgejo

Took me about a week but managed to move the #homelab Azure integration off of the IPsec tunnel to the tenant, over to a VPS running WireGuard instead. Opted for OVHcloud as the host and was much easier than expected. The biggest hurdle was myself over-complicating it in my head!

Also migrated my domain name to their services too bringing it all under a nice single interface for management. Homelab is now Microsoft free.

#grapheneos on a second hand Pixel 9 next, maybe? 🤔

@homelab

I'm back online from the longest internet outage in my life - 19 hours!
Have no idea what was broken on my #ISP side, but guess that was something huge.

A lot of things went wrong while offline. I had #HomeAssistant connection issues on #iOS. I had #Plex issues playing something. I even had issues with #PhilipsHue lights, because the time on the bridge switched to something completely unrelated to reality.

My #homelab was not prepared, but lessons were learned.
#InternetOutage #disaster

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A screenshot of a network activity graph with a long-ass emptiness on it.

Fuck AI with #Anubis:
Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of your connection using one or more challenges protecting upstream resources from bots.

Designed to protect the small internet from AI companies endless requests, Anubis is lightweight so ***everyone*** can afford to protect the communities closest to them.

Fuck AI

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

#fuckAI #selfHosted #fediverse #web #webDev #homeLab #security #ai #cyberSecurity #webDevelopment #networking #foss #github #selfHosting

In December, the authors of #watchtower decided to archive their own project.

There are a few forks out there - unfortunately I know nothing about them so can't really vouch for their legitimity. If you want to continue using Watchtower, please assess them yourself without switching. A few of the active forks I've looked at are full of AI slop and while they might work, I wouldn't advice using any of them.

This is not a good way to end a project. The original authors recommend looking at Kubernetes instead. For many #Docker users, this is not an option. They need a drop-in replacement for Watchtower which keeps their docker containers updated.

One fedizen wrote that this is a popular fork but he did not test it himself:
https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower/
Is this one of the forks that is afflicted with #AIslop?

#homelab #selfhosting #docker #itsec #itsecurity

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GitHub screenshot: simskij on Dec 17, 2025 Maintainer It is with a heavy heart, and some sense of relief, that I'd like to announce that we are looking to archive containrrr/watchtower. Neither @piksel, nor I, are big users of docker anymore, and frankly lost interest (and time) in maintaining the project. There are a few forks out there - unfortunately I know nothing about them so can't really vouch for their legitimity. If you want to continue using Watchtower, please assess them yourself without switching. A few of the active forks I've looked at are full of AI slop and while they might work, I wouldn't advice using any of them. With that said, the separate shoutrrr project will remain active for the time being. Thank you for this time, and for showing such a overwhelming amount of interest in the project! It's really been a fun ride! Best, @simskij and @piksel

#homelab @homelab Hi. Test building: #supermicro #x11spwft
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X11SPW-TF
#SuperServer5019PWTR
https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1u/5019/SYS-5019P-WTR.php
WD #SN850X 2TB SSD
https://amzn.eu/d/ez8cYXZ
#SLG32 AOC-SLG3-2 2x m2 board
https://amzn.eu/d/4roeQkw
#S3008LL8E AOC-S3008L-L8E RAID https://amzn.eu/d/ig4RhoF + cables
https://amzn.eu/d/5CA2vkW
#xeon6254 #Intel #Xeon #Gold 6254 CPU 18-Core 3.10 GHz (4.00 GHz Turbo) https://www.servershop24.de/en/intel-xeon-gold-6254-cpu/a-126340/
2 x WD SN850X 4TB SSD
https://www.galaxus.de/en/s1/product/wd-black-sn850x-powered-by-sandisk-4000-gb-m2-2280-ssd-21635315 / https://amzn.eu/d/f9Yy7hs 4xHDD #NixOS

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Supermicro x11spwft under construction ....

Proxmox Helferskripte - Dienste einfach Nutzen

Manchmal soll die Installation von Diensten im Heimnetz einfach schnell gehen. Oder man möchte Dienste nur ausprobieren, das geht einfach mit Proxmox Helferskripten.

#proxmox #homelab #Tipps_&_Tricks #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/proxmox-helferskripte

Wrote a post about setting up the smb csi driver in your #homelab #kubernetes cluster and using talosctl to back up your #talos etcd to a NAS.

https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/k8s/04-backup-talos-etcd-to-smb/

@homelab

RE: https://flipboard.com/@xdaofficial/xda-developers-ntraf9plz/-/a-5qvtb8tDS86JEEQAIK6nwg%3Aa%3A2772481191-%2F0

I support the idea that a messy home lab is a functional home lab. Nothing against neat, but messy is "organic", ever evolving. 😄
#HomeLab @homelab

Feels great when I want to do something super-hyper complicated that I did six months ago, and all I need to do is read the documentation that I wrote "just in case". 😄 🧠

#HomeLab #DevOps #SRE @homelab

In my Mastodon/YouTube timeline #Dockhand has been frequently appearing in the last few days.

I’m considering taking a look at it this weekend and installing it on my k8s to control my VPC.

Does anyone have any experience with it?

#docker #selfhosted #homelab
@homelab

I've got my hands on one of these passively cooled N100 machines with 4 ethernet ports and want to use it as a (completely overpowered) router.

I'm contemplating setting it up with #NixOS instead of #pfSense or #OPNsense. Good idea or complete and utter overkill? 😅

#HomeRouter #homelab @homelab @homelab_de

Wrote a post about setting up sops and the sops-operator on a #homelab #kubernetes cluster

https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/k8s/03-secret-management-with-sops/

@homelab #k8s #sops

I want to thank everyone who commented on my rant about Home Assistant VM eating so much memory. This morning I did some investigation, and I understand what's going on.

A few people who commented were right: it was all about buffers and cache. I didn't keep the VM up long enough for it to drain. After spinning up a new VM, I dropped into the shell and saw 3GB just for that.

Restarting HA didn't do anything, as it simply restarts the services. I had to actually reboot the VM. It came back using 1.4GB of RAM, which is kind of expected (still not great, but acceptable).

So yeah, I'll keep moving on migrating my Home Assistant from a Raspberry Pi to a VM on Proxmox.

Thanks hive mind.

#HomeAssistant #HomeLab @homelab @homeassistant

The spice must flow, and the home lab must grow! I have acquired 3 refurbished Lenovo M720q Tiny.

In the picture below you will see my Framework Desktop on the right, which is currently running my single-node Talos Kubernetes cluster. Two of the Lenovo will be added as nodes to the cluster. I still haven't decided what I am going to do with the third, but most likely it will become a NAS at some point.

The Lenovos have been acquired via a store named "Untrusted Source". Don't let the name fool you. They're incredibly friendly and knowledgeable about the craft of refurbishing hardware (see link below).

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Lenovo @homelab

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On the left there are three Lenovo M720q Tiny stacked on top of the other. On the right there is a Framework Desktop, with red and green tiles, as well as a Tux and an AMD tile.

@badnetmask @homelab I can't imagine that's just because of the architecture difference. In my case, just Home Assistant is taking almost 500MB RAM.

#homeassistant #homelab

Tutter is updated to v4.5.5, Postgres to 18.1 and Redis to 8.4.0 🎉

#selfhosting #fediverse #maintenance #homelab

Fellow Homelabbers. I have a bunch of HDD‘s which is must test for integrity to see if there are bad sectors on them etc. I like a software which also makes a complete write, read, verify cycle on that disks. Could someone recommend a suitable software. Bonus points if the status could be send via mail. #selfhosting #homelab @homelab @homelab_de

Guacamole vs Termix : le choc des architectures ! 🥊

J'ai testé ces deux solutions sur un parc de 142 hôtes. Entre le "tank" historique et la "formule 1" moderne, qui gagne le crash-test CPU/RAM ? 📉💻

Voici mon retour d'expérience complet ✔️

#HomeLab #SysAdmin #Apache #Guacamole #Termix

https://blablalinux.be/b/4J_?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Der Takt der Rebellion: Teil 4 ist online! 🕒🔥

HA-NTP: Redundante PTB-Zeit im eigenen Keller.

Port-123-Fix: Pi-hole bändigen & Chrony befreien.

Windows-Trick: SNAT-Magie für störrische Clients.

Gravity-Sync: Automatischer Abgleich via systemd-timer (trotz Archiv-Status!).

Echte Souveränität im Millisekunden-Takt. 🛠️

https://www.pandolin.io/project-rebel-homebase-teil-4-ntp-gravity-sync/

#linux #Rebelhomebase #OpenSource #HomeLab #DigitaleSouveranitat #BeAVoice

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Eine stilisierte Illustration eines besorgten Maskottchens (Pandolin), das auf einem gepflasterten Platz vor zwei imposanten gotischen Kirchtürmen steht. Das Schuppentier hält eine große Taschenuhr in den Pfoten und blickt verunsichert drein. Das zentrale Motiv ist die fehlende Zeitsynchronität: Die Uhren auf den beiden Türmen und die Taschenuhr zeigen alle völlig unterschiedliche Uhrzeiten an – ein Sinnbild für die Herausforderungen der NTP-Synchronisation in einem Netzwerk.

Blog-Artikel sind Momentaufnahmen. Eine Infrastruktur lebt.

Auf der Reise zur meiner digitalen Open Source Only Souveränität habe ich viel gelernt und vieles wieder umgeworfen. Damit der aktuelle Stand (Hardware, DNS-Cluster, Topologie) nicht in der Timeline untergeht, habe ich jetzt einen Ankerpunkt geschaffen.

Der Nukleus der Rebellion ist live. Hier ist die Landkarte meines Homelabs:
👉 https://www.pandolin.io/nukleus-der-rebellion/

#HomeLab #SelfHosting #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #RebelHomebase

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Illustration im warmen Sepia-Stil: Ein zufriedenes Schuppentier (Pandolin) sitzt mit einer dampfenden Tasse an einem Schreibtisch vor einem Laptop. Die Wand im Hintergrund ist übersät mit technischen Netzwerk-Diagrammen, Kubernetes-Strukturen und Notizen zur 'Rebel Homebase' Infrastruktur.

My infra has started officially in 2016 and it changed a lot. From 3-4 computers in a small bedroom on the countryside, it became 3 powerful computers in a single-room apartment, before it moved to its current location, in a nice home-made rack !

Time flies so fast!

#homelab #lackrack

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First infra of Automario.eu : there are 4 big black computer towers on a desk and a small light beige commode. The one on the left is the main web server that was hosting my websites.

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One of the second generations of the Automario's infra : on the right, there are two computers stacked together, one on top of the other. On the left, there is a small shelf attached to my desk with one IBM tower at the bottom and one shelf with an UPS, my router and a pile of CDs

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Last generation of Automario's infra : it's made of an IKEA Lack table. This table has been converted to a LackRack and stores the following machines : a rack shelf with some PSUs, a rail for SBCs, two Dell Optiplex servers in a 3D printed white rack, a cable organizer and a Juniper EX2300 at the bottom. A UPS is present on the right of the table

Terminal Tilt is exactly 58 subscribers away from the 1K milestone and monetization.

In case you are new to my channel, welcome! As a disabled queer creator, I know how often our voices are drowned out by corporate "ai" sludge. Terminal Tilt is a space where I can speak authentically, fight for digital sovereignty, and show that there is a place for us in the technical world.

I started it because I like to watch YouTube and I often search for Linux videos. I find it infuriating that 90% of the videos have "ai" generated voices, graphics, and scripts. I want to learn new things, not have unoriginal ideas regurgitated to me by bots. Terminal Tilt is a strictly Non-AI channel focused on ethical computing, promoting #FOSS, and providing a direct alternative to the Big Tech surveillance machine. I respect your time and your sovereignty. Lets build a community together!

If you believe in a web where the user is in control and their privacy respected, and our technology does not have to destroy the planet, help me cross the finish line today.

I have some great stuff in the pipeline, such as reviews for security hardware, quick looks and installations of GNU/Linux distributions , and discussions on the state of computing.

I am also improving quickly. Every video has been a learning experience and I am very open to constructive criticism.

My newest video from earlier today: 5 Extensions for Real Digital Independence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA9FjlZMJBQ

My most popular video (90k+ views): The Windows Exodus Has Begun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLzdTgCXyRU

I also post videos to PeerTube here: https://gnulinux.tube/c/terminaltilt/videos

Every boost helps us show that independent, human created tech content has a place in 2026.

#TerminalTilt #NoAI #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #EthicalComputing #Privacy #Security #HumanMade #SmallCreator #AntiBigTech #DigitalSovereignty #SelfHosted #Homelab #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #DeGoogle #Technology #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #FOSS #DigitalRights #Fediverse #Mastodon #PeerTube #YouTube #Google #QueerMutualAid #QueerCreator #Disability #Disabled #DisabledCreator #DisabledMutualAid #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT

Hm. It seems that #garage S3 storage only handles one region per node? I guess I will switch my install from a binary to a container based one, so I can run two separate instances. One being a single-node setup for my homelab and another one that has 3 nodes, allowing me to distribute it between my homelab and my VPSes (Virtual Private Servers) that are on the internet.

#Homelab #SelfHost #S3 @homelab

Speaking about Home Assistant: I'm baffled about the fact that HAOS out of the box (no config at all) running as a VM is consuming 3.5GB of RAM, while the sum of Raspberry Pi OS + Home Assistant Docker, with thousands of entities, is barely touching 1.5GB RAM.

Is this because of the difference between x86_64 and ARM? Is that normal? 🤔

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant @homelab

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/115698872870594708

Home lab architecture update: two of the Lenovo boxes in the picture below became Talos nodes, together with the Framework Desktop. The third Lenovo became a Proxmox node.

Yep, I'm back on the Proxmox bandwagon.

Now I have a bit of everything: Talos running Kubernetes, Proxmox running VM/LXC and Raspberry Pi running Docker.

At some point the three Raspberry Pis are going away, and the services are going to be distributed between Talos and Proxmox, then they are going to become back-end compute for shenanigans (like a Home Assistant dashboard, for example).

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Proxmox #Lenovo @homelab

Mauricio Teixeira🐧 » 🌐 2025-12-11
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

The spice must flow, and the home lab must grow! I have acquired 3 refurbished Lenovo M720q Tiny.

In the picture below you will see my Framework Desktop on the right, which is currently running my single-node Talos Kubernetes cluster. Two of the Lenovo will be added as nodes to the cluster. I still haven't decided what I am going to do with the third, but most likely it will become a NAS at some point.

The Lenovos have been acquired via a store named "Untrusted Source". Don't let the name fool you. They're incredibly friendly and knowledgeable about the craft of refurbishing hardware (see link below).

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Lenovo @homelab

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On the left there are three Lenovo M720q Tiny stacked on top of the other. On the right there is a Framework Desktop, with red and green tiles, as well as a Tux and an AMD tile.

Utilisateur de #pfsense, je commence tout juste à regarder du côté de #opnsense pour mon #homelab. Si des gens qui me lisent ont un avis éclairé à ce propos, ça m'intéresse (pour être franc, je ne connais pas du tout opnsense).

#parefeu #firewall

Tired of forgetting your shopping list at home?

I'm checking out Koffan - an ultra-lightweight self-hosted shopping list app! New video is live!

✅ Real-time sync
✅ PWA support
✅ Docker

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/Ioqa58t0QHU

#selfhosted #docker #homelab

If you ever find yourself in a situation like me, where you have a very small stripped screw, in a very tight and sensitive area of an electronic device, you might be able to extract it by using this magic tool.

Basically you drill a new hole into the screw, then use the other side to unscrew it. Well, in my case, I didn't even have to unscrew. Just the side that drills was enough to extract it without any damage to any other components. Recommended 10/10.

NOTE: please follow the manufacturer instructions, and don't blame me for any damage.

#HomeLab #DIY #RetroComputing #Refurbish #Refurbished @homelab

https://www.thegrabitstore.com/products/alden-4507p-grabit-micro-broken-bolt-extractor-4-piece-kit

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A collage with two pictures. On the left is an M.2 wifi card inside a computer with a stripped screw. On the right is a screenshot from the website where you can buy this kit with 4 drill bits to remove the stripped screw. The name of the tool is GrabIt Micro.

#homelab migration to #proxmox fully complete. Managed to get the Synology iSCSI storage setup and migrated the S3 bucket my Mastodon instance uses to it. Not optimal but fine for my small deployment. Frees up space on the local SSD for other things.

Glad I moved away from Hyper-V. This does everything I need and lowers my dependency on Microsoft. Only bit which was slightly fiddly was configuring GPU passthrough to the container host which runs my #jellyfin instances.

@homelab

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/115893998006832518

This is some great content that works both for professionals and home lab enthusiasts.

#HomeLab @homelab

Chris Short » 🌐 2026-01-14
@ChrisShort@hachyderm.io

DevOps'ish Returns! I'll be restarting the newsletter this weekend with its first edition in 3 years, 2 months, 7 days (#293)! Please head over to https://buttondown.com/devopsish to subscribe today!

Sur le blog je vous parle de Ma PreProd #Yunohost au travers d'un Retour d’expérience https://blog.genma.fr/?Ma-PreProd-Yunohost-Retour-d-experience
Car les #Homelab ce sont de la production, donc on fait des preprod !

Periodic reminder - if you're using git , https://github.com/unixorn/git-extra-commands is a collection of helper scripts to make git more pleasant.

@homelab #homelab #devops #sre #git

ProxLB 1.1.11 was released, focusing on deeper integration and smarter balancing for Proxmox VE clusters. This version introduces a beta integration with Proxmox’s native HA and affinity/anti-affinity rules (please report any kind of bugs!), allowing ProxLB to work seamlessly with existing placement constraints instead of duplicating them.

The balancing behavior has also been improved: operators can now prefer smaller or larger VMs during placement, and node memory reservations are respected to reduce overcommitment.

Overall, 1.1.11 makes ProxLB more predictable, safer, and better suited for production use, while paving the way for future HA-aware scheduling improvements.

Blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/proxlb-proxmox-ha-affinity-rules-version-1-1-11/
Release/Changelog: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.11
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB

#virtualization #VM #VPS #PVE #Prox #ProxmoxVE #KVM #VMware #Enterprise #Homelab #ResourceScheduler #affinity #antiaffinity #devops #tools #python #debian

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ProxLB for Proxmox Clusters in version 1.1.11

Wer 8.8.8.8 nutzt, hat die Kontrolle verloren. Bequemlichkeit ist der Käfig, den Big Tech uns gebaut hat. 🤷‍♂️

Ich habe den Stecker gezogen. In Teil 3 des Project Rebel Homebase bauen wir echte Souveränität.

Kein „Zwei Pi-holes im DHCP“-Gebastel. Sondern High Availability mit Keepalived, Unbound & virtueller IP. Overkill? Vielleicht. Aber mein „Stormtrooper“ verfehlt sein Ziel nicht. 🎯

Die Anleitung zur Unabhängigkeit:
https://chk.me/7d61jhj

#linux #RebelHomeBase #FOSS #OpenSource #HomeLab

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Der 'Rebel Cube' Homelab-Server im schwarz-weißen Stormtrooper-Design. Der Aufbau von oben nach unten: Ein ZimaBlade mit NVMe-SSDs, zwei Raspberry Pi CM4 Blades als redundanter DNS-Cluster, ein 2.5G PoE-Switch und ein 10G-Switch als Basis.

After a lot of good information here, I decided to spin up Garage on my Synology. Following the same pattern that I use in different hosts in my home lab, I was also able to put it behind SSL/TLS.

I still need to do some further testing, and after that I will blog with more details, but if anyone is interested, here's my Docker Compose file (with a link to the blog post about my private CA).

Thanks @jwildeboer and @slamp for sharing their configs.

#HomeLab #Garage #Synology @homelab

https://gist.github.com/badnetmask/24cbdc7472c28060f4085e583afe9582

J’ai acheté un nom de domaine à < 1 € non pas pour un projet, mais pour tester proprement une infra (HTTPS, proxy, DNS).

Les domaines numériques .xyz rendent ça possible, sans surprise au renouvellement.

Retour d’expérience ici :
https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/nom-de-domaine-moins-dun-euro/

#homelab #selfHosting #dns #infra

@rl_dane

That was an enjoyable read. I had a #ThinkPad #L530 in 2013 for some school stuff. Once done, I blew away #Windows7 for #Debian. Almost* everything worked out of the box. Fast, stable, and reliable.

Had I not tripped over the power cable (and thus violently tearing apart the AC adapter plug and internal connection, I'd still have it.

I've seriously considered going for another ThinkPad but I have a handful of spare laptops at my disposal and my daily driver is a sweet #Dell #Latitude 5400 (also running Debian).

The only thing that didn't work was the red dot in the keyboard. Oddly, it was supported under #openSUSE.

#laptop #linux #homelab

FYI all, portainer is giving away 3 node business licenses. https://www.portainer.io/take-3

When I signed up for the freebie I noticed they've added #kubernetes support since the last time I visited their site, so I'm interested in checking how well that interacts with #talos.

Some of my #homelab machines currently just run a few containers in #docker_compose stacks for services my #homeassistant server is using like node red and I've been using #portainer for simple things like checking status or restarting things without having to ssh into those workers. Most of those containers are going to get migrated into my #k8s cluster, so it'll be interesting to see how well it works as a quick web interface.

@homelab

So, I want to add an S3-compatible storage service local to my home lab (currently I'm using Backblaze). Basically I want it to run as a Docker service on my Synology NAS. It needs to run in the Synology because I want it to be external to my servers. I'm undecided between Garage or SeaweedFS.

Not MinIO. No, not Ceph. Not a VM. Not a Pi. Not in Kubernetes.

Anyone have/had that very particular setup and can share their experiences? Thanks in advance.

#HomeLab #Synology #Garage #SeaweedFS @homelab

My #Mastodon instance is going to be moved from #Hetzner to this beaty ^_^

#HomeLab #SelfHost #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #MiniPC #JetKVM

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An Asus mini PC with JetKVM connected to it

The #homelab is noodling all our >5000 documents for the initial #paperless import. Kinda stupid that paperless bluntly requeues everything *in addition again* when you restart it (e.g. to fine tune import settings).

My fellow homelabbers: which sultion would you recommend if you would like to build a Spotify like Streaming Service for youre family with music you have in a local library?
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de

No one tells you just how much work goes into a small YouTube channel. For me, Terminal Tilt is a labor of love, but it is a massive undertaking:

Research and Writing: This is the largest portion. Not just diving into topics, but finding ones truly worth your time.

Filming and Privacy: I have chosen a "headless" approach (screen-only). It respects my privacy and helps me manage the workload, but it still requires a lot of setup.

Voiceovers: This is the hardest part for me. Managing social anxiety while recording is a constant hurdle, but it is one I am getting better at with every video.

Editing: I am currently spending 8–12 hours per video (since last video). As I learn more techniques, the complexity grows, but so does the quality.

The small Stuff: Learning GIMP for thumbnails and managing promotion. Those little things really do add up.

I am disabled and currently navigating the long road to SSDI approval. My goal is to grow Terminal Tilt into something sustainable, a way to support myself while advocating for ethical, #NoAI, and #deGoogled technology. I am taking this seriously and I am having a lot of fun building this.

If you value independent, human-made tech content, there are a few ways to help keep the terminal open:

▶️ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TerminalTilt

🧡 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TerminalTilt

☕ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/terminaltilt

Thank you all for the follows, the boosts, and the support. It means the world to have your backing as I build an independent channel focused on what actually works, not just what's trending.

#TerminalTilt #Linux #GNUlinux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #Tech #Privacy #CyberSecurity #DigitalPrivacy #Debian #CommandLine #CLI #Terminal #Bash #FishShell #Dotfiles #Debian #Trixie #QueerTech #TransInTech #DisabledInTech #Accessibility #NoAI #HumanMade #DeGoogle #EthicalTech #Autonomy #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #YouTube #ContentCreator #SmallStreamer #LinuxUser #IndieCreator #SupportIndependent #Mullvad #MutualAid #DisabilityMutualAid #QueerMutualAid

If you're going to read the article below, please take it with a grain of salt. I think the writer put a lot of fluff on it for the dramatic effect, and I am not at all endorsing everything they said, but the discussion is interesting anyway.

Some people might have seen me ranting about Kubernetes being too complicated for a home lab. Well, sometimes it's complicated even for a company's production service as well. It's all about weighing your pros and cons, and figuring out what fits best in your reality.

This is an interesting cautionary tale, and provides some food for thought. Don't go ripping off your Kubernetes cluster yet, but maybe just keep this conversation processing in the back your head for the future.

#HomeLab #Kubernetes @homelab

https://medium.com/@guvencanguven965/kubernetes-was-overkill-we-moved-to-docker-compose-and-saved-60-hours-3e7811122135

Der Server daheim - ein Jahr danach

Seit einem Jahr nutze ich einen Mini PC als Server. In diesem Artikel berichte ich wie es läuft nach einem Jahr Servernutzung.

#homelab #Heimserver #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/der-server-daheim-ein-jahr-danach

Homeserver. Nützlicher als gedacht - oder Zeitverschwendung am Basteltisch?

Server im eigenen Heim: Daten bleiben in den eigenen vier Wänden, Backups und Familienkalender sind lokal verfügbar. Aber: Aufwand für Einrichtung, Lernkurven, Pflege, Absicherung und Fehlersuche. Was spricht für - und was gegen das Projekt "mein kleiner Homeserver"?

#Homeserver #homelab #Selfhosting #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/homeserver-nuetzlich-oder-zeitverschwendung

New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/s3-perf-and-future-hw/

I finally figured out why some of my S3 operations were so slow.

And I'm musing a bit about future hardware directions for the Homelab.

Anybody want to share their experience with Tiny/Mini/Micro PCs, especially when it comes to noise and power consumption? And perhaps extendability? Especially NICs?

#Blog #HomeLab

@mmeier
I will read the blog later, but let me talk about the mini.

I recently acquired 3 Lenovo Tiny. They make zero noise, and have one PCI slot that I will use for a 2.5Gbe, plus one wifi card slot that I will convert to NVMe, and one regular NVMe. Lots of expansion (for me).

I used to have two HP SFF. They made some noise. Not bad, but it was perceptible, while the Lenovo Tiny is basically not at all. They had 3 PCI slots, but I could never fit a GPU in the case.

My suggestion: if you don't need lots of disks or extra boards, get a Tiny/Mini, not an SFF.

#HomeLab @homelab

I'm #selfhosting some services (#Nextcloud, #Immich, #homeassistant , etc.) on my #homelab network, accessing them remotely via VPN (Wireguard) implemented directly from my router (FritzBox).

Is this the best solution to allow me and the few (~10) other users to access remotely, or would a #reverseproxy be better?

Please enlighten me.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@siderolabs/115853943771571011

When someone asks me "why Talos and not K3s", I usually simplify and say "I don't want an extra OS layer". Well. This blog post goes beyond my simplistic explanation. I hope it helps.

#HomeLab #Kubernetes #TalosLinux @homelab

Looking to migrate the #homelab from Hyper-V to #proxmox. The main VMs I care about are Ubuntu hosts running Docker containers.

I have an old Intel NUC I'm thinking I'll use. NIC doesn't support VLANs sadly but I think I can get away with untagging it to my server network and just use a bridge for now. Also have Veeam backups so might try and restore those directly to Proxmox.

Anyone else tried similar or have any tips?

@homelab

When adopting a new 100GbE switch, it’s important to follow gradual introduction procedures to keep your existing cats from becoming stressed and developing RDMA aggression.

#cats #catsofmastodon #networking #homelab

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A Siamese tabby cat sniffs an Arista switch sitting on a table

Pourquoi j'aime l'#opensource, nouvel épisode. Je viens de voir que l'on pouvait facilement installer #Yunohost sur #Proxmox via des scripts et LXC. https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts?id=yunohost

Je sais lire un script, j'ai accès au code source, il est sous licence MIT. Je vais pouvoir l'adapter à mes besoins, améliorer, repartager.

Dès que j'ai un peu de temps perso, de nouvelles expérimentations en vue sur mon #homelab !

@srfaudio
I've had issues with single/centralized databases in the past, and for that very reason I decided that each service will have their own instance. For Docker Compose it's just one more service (copy/paste for Pg/My/Influx). For k8s I'm using the CNPG operator, which deploys a database in the same namespace as the app (haven't needed anything else yet). I agree it's more services running, but it makes my life a lot easier when dealing with the constant adding and removing services in the home lab.
#HomeLab @homelab

@keisatsu @homelab #talos #homelab

I'm pretty sure you could use the metal images, but since the nocloud mentions proxmox explicitly I went with that. I'm too ignorant at this point to really know what makes them different. One of the advantages of talos + proxmox is that it's really really easy to stand up a 1 node experiment 😉

As a k8s n00b I really like how easy and fast it is to rebuild a single node cluster while I'm experimenting.

I had tried k3s before but never really moved much workload to it, and it was before I had a proxmox cluster set up. That, plus the fact that I was running it on headless Odroid ARM SBCs made me reluctant to wipe nodes and start over.

I updated the article just now to note that with the cluster configured to start with no CNI and no kube-proxy, it can take several minutes for it to get back to Ready after you kick off the etcd bootstrap.

There are some alarming looking errors while things time out that made me think I'd broken things until I kicked it off on a fresh cluster and went to cook dinner.

Here's a tip If you plan on standing up and tearing down VMs while you're tinkering with Talos, copy the MAC of the first one (go to your proxmox datacenter UI, select the VM, then select **Hardware** and double click **Network Device** for details) and set each replacement to that MAC. Your DHCP server uses a machine's MAC to determine if it should get a static assignment, so recycling the MAC keeps you from having to update DHCP each time you bring up a new VM.

This is one of the few times it's a good idea to reuse a MAC - having two VMs or physical machines with the same MAC running simultaneously will cause problems with on your network.

I've become a little obsessed with reducing my #homelab power consumption lately.

So I moved my #frigate NVR from my main server to an Optiplex. Previously object detection was running on an Nvidia RTX card but now the Intel iGPU can do it, probably just as badly.

The home server dropped about 90w while the optiplex went up only 2-3 watts on average though so those efficiency gains are well worth it since that change saves about £225/year on it's own. 🫨

ProxCLMC detects the best CPU mode for VMs across all nodes in a cluster to guarantee safe live migrations.

Github: http://github.com/gyptazy/ProxCLMC

#opensource #rust #PVE #homelab #virtualization #cpu #evc #Proxmox #ProxmoxVE

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ProxCLMC for Proxmox VE Clusters

How do you keep your #homelab apps updated? What’s your routine, do you have a tool that helps you do the updates? Manual or automatic? #boost

@loop0
Here's how I update my stuff.

Raspberry Pi nodes: apt update every once in a while.

Talos Kubernetes nodes: image update when a new one is released.

Everything else, all apps/controllers/etc, either in Docker or Kubernetes: Renovate runs daily and tells me what needs to be updated. I read the changelogs and figure out if anything needs manual intervention, then proceed accordingly.

#HomeLab @homelab

I sat down today planning to install a new app.

But first, let me do this quick update. Oops. Failed. Fix it.

Oh, is this similar to that other problem? Poke. Nope. Revert.

Look at the clock, 3h has passed, absolutely nothing was accomplished. 😞

#HomeLab @homelab

I set up a #talos #k8s cluster with #cilium on #proxmox over the holiday break.

I documented how to set one up on my blog at https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/k8s/01-talos-with-cilium-cni-on-proxmox/

#selfhosted #homelab @homelab

Baby's first #Linux install. Yesterday, I walked my 13 year old daughter through setting up Ubuntu Server on one of these eBay m710q units. She installed, updated, and configured the OS, set up #TailScale, #Docker, #AMP, and finally spun up a #Minecraft instance. Merrily added it to our #homelab.

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A girl in a grey hoodie faces a large screen on the wall. The screen features a Linux CLI.

I'm trying to pick a linux distro for my server. I see CentOS (RHEL based - not sure how I feel about bringing that home?) and Ubuntu (Debian Based, but I no longer trust the maintainers), but I'm not sure if those are options I like. What is everyone else using?

#homelab #selfhosting

Anyone powering up Lenovo M90q Tiny out of USB-C PD chargers? My Anker Prime Charger only delivers 100W per USB-C ports and that's not enough for the M90q it seems (more 135W). I looked quickly but not sure to find anything to replace the regular power bricks. #homelab @homelab

I just realized it's been a whole week since the last time I touched my home lab (or even my computer at all). That's interesting. Maybe I need to get back on this bike today. 😄

#HomeLab @homelab

👋 I'm looking to connect with other small YouTube and/or PeerTube creators (<1,000 subs) who are strictly focused on #NoAI, #FOSS, #Privacy, and #OpenSource technology.

It is hard to find channels in tech not using "ai." If that's you, or you know of any, please reply with the channel link so I can support you!

🔄 Boosts deeply appreciated to help me find my people.

#AskFedi #FOSS #NoAI #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #Linux #GNULinux #GNU #Debian #SmallYouTuber #TechCreator #HumanMade #HumanContent #EthicalTech #Privacy #Homelab #SelfHosted #TerminalTilt #Disabled #DisabledCreator #DisabledArtist #Queer #QueerCreator #QueerArtist #Mastodon #Boost #boostswelcome #LinuxMint

You can simply use relay instances to be interconnected with other instances to exchange posts and it works seamless with #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #snac / #snac2 and many other ones! If you're in tech, you might want to use:

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

You can simply add it to get a bigger reach but also to get more interesting content into your own timeline which becomes even more important on single user- & smaller instances.

#activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #opensource #bsd #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #debian #proxmox #xcpng #talos #coding #programming #fediwall #relay #fedirelay #acitivitypubrelay #selfhost #homelab #community

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Activity Pub / Fediverse Relay

#Proxmox #PVE #homelab #opensource #rust #rustlang #devops #virtualization #CPU #EVC

https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxCLMC

Here's your chance to see the fediverse platform Bonfire in action (without having to install it or create an account)

Our favorite fedi live streamer, @ozoned is going to be streaming an install and walk through soon (Jan 2 at 8 AM CST).

Add it to your calendars and #JoinIn

https://freestreamers.btfree.org/event/bonfire-install-and-config-livestream

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Bonfire #HomeLab

#Proxmox #PVE #PBS #S3 #Garage #HowTo #OpenSource #Homelab #selfhost

https://gyptazy.com/self-hosted-s3-compatible-storage-with-garage-proxmox-backup-server-4-1/

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Proxmox Backup Server with S3 compatible storage via Garage for your datastore

@scy yeah, a typical issue when defining alerts, they only look at relative numbers and not absolute. You have to always use a mix of both.

#monitoring #SysAdmin #HomeLab

#syncthing is such a good product. I have it on every desktop and notebook and on the #homelab . The instance on the homelab is set as introducer meaning I only have to register new devices to one instance and the others will get an automatic notification. As it should be you still need to approve all devices and folders.

the folders on the homelab also double as sources for my scheduled backups.

Eigentlich genau das gleiche Problem, was mein alter #Server hatte, nur bekomme ich das mit den damaligen Methoden nicht mehr hin. Scheiß Realtek.

#Homelab #Linux

Hello fellow homelabbers. I want to use domains instead of the raw IP adresses in my home
network. First thought was that using Adguard Home as local DNS Server for that. Good idea or are the any caveats using that software? Or is there any better DNS solution with a gui?
#homelab @homelab @homelab_de

My mother in law prefers to print pictures taken from her phone then delete the files rather than syncing with my self-hosted cloud platform. It's not transparent enough for her. I should give nextcloud a try so her phone automatically syncs photos and videos without intervention.

#selfhosting #nextcloud #phone #homelab

#Proxmox #PVE #OpenSource #homelab #enterprises #virtualization #rust #rustlang #tools #community

https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1ptnb27/introducing_proxclmc_a_lightweight_tool_to/

#Proxmox #PVE #Homelab #Enterprise #Virtualization #OpenSource #Rust #RustLang #Coding #Tools

Tonight's wild to-do list:

1. Wrap presents and write Christmas cards.
2. Test/Implement High-Availability IMAP for my emails
3. Document and configure said HA capability in an ansible role.

I surely am a party machine!

#dovecot #homelab #sysadmin #imap #ansible #configmanagement

🔹 A tour of my personal #Proxmox setup (hardware & config).
🔹 How to set up efficient monitoring with #VictoriaMetrics.
🔹 Real-time stress testing (let’s see if we can break it live!).
Whether you run a #Raspberry Pi or a full rack in your basement, come hang out and get some inspiration for your winter projects.
📅 When: December 30th at 10am PT | 6pm GMT | 7pm CET

🔗 Live on our YouTube Channel
https://youtube.com/live/rsSHcONUfGU
#Homelab #DevOps #Proxmox #VictoriaMetrics #SysAdmin #HolidayProjects

Ever wanted to know which CPU type is the maximum supported in your Proxmox cluster, when not being able to set type host? ProxCLMC evaluates all nodes within the cluster and checks for the maxmimum supported type to make sure live migrations can perform without any issues. ProxCLMC is fully opensource and entirely written in Rust.

More in my blog post:

https://gyptazy.com/proxclmc-identifying-the-maximum-safe-cpu-model-for-live-migration-in-proxmox-clusters/

#Proxmox #PVE #OpenSource #LiveMigration #Homelab #Enterprise #coding #opensource #Rust #Rustlang #CPU #KVM #CPUType #HowTo

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ProxCLMC Logo: ProxCLMC is a lightweight tool to determine the maximum CPU compatibility level that is supported across all nodes in a Proxmox VE cluster.

MastoAdmins, are you using object storage for your self-hosted instance? If so, where and how much for how much data?

#mastodon #mastoadmin #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #amazon_s3

What Google Photos? Self-Hosting Photo Storage with PhotoPrism Using Docker in My Homelab https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-photoprism/ #Homelab

My router interface traffic graphs are pretty useless. Every night around 2:00am, various things run backups. Some do backups across the network, others copy out to an off-site location. But the bottom line is that if I look at my network interface graphs, that massive spike every night ruins the Y axis.

These are the daily, weekly, and monthly graphs. And the fact that daily hits around 450M, but ordinary hours are like 8-10M, it means I can't see the rest of the graph. It means that I can't spot changes or interesting things.

I'm not really sure how to do better. (It's amateur hour over here)

#network #homelab #selfhosting

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A daily graph with hours on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. From 2:00 to almost 4:00 there's a huge spike up to 450 Mb per second.

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A weekly graph with days of the week on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. Each day there's this sharp green spike up to 450 Mb per second.

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A monthly graph with weeks on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. There are 5 sharp spikes up to 450 Mb per second in each week.

• donner la carte graphique à un conteneur pour faire du offload pour #jellyfin.

• donner un dongle usb #zigbee à un conteneur pour créer mon serveur #homeassistant (et ne plus dépendre d'un service cloud)

Today was the last move. It is all in one rack. It’s all halfway decent. I had a major downtime though because I had a stupid #xcpng goof that required upgrading a server that had live workloads on it. I couldn’t migrate them off. That sucked.

But it looks ok now. And it is so much more compact. I am using some air filter fabric over the front door to filter the air. And I have the front facing inside and the back blowing out toward the outside. I figure the air is cleaner on the house side of the garage.

#homelab #selfhosting #nicerack

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Photo of a 42-U rack with about 6 different servers racked in it. There’s also a few UPSes at the bottom

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Rear view of the same rack. Plenty of wires dangling, but I’ve got some cable management in there. It could be worse. (It was worse for many years)

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View of the front. But it is obscured by white fabric that covers the grill of the front door.

Le temps investi dans la prévention (mise à jour) est toujours infiniment plus court que le temps passé à résoudre une compromission. La sécurité et la stabilité ont un prix : celui de la veille technologique.

Point final.

#homelab #selfhosting #proxmox

@homelab

Remembering my homelab before I gained experience with containers.

The thrill of running multiple PHP websites on the same box hoping the next system update won't break any of them 🙄

...or natively installed Jellyfin, Pi-Hole.

Fragile configurations.

Not anymore 😊

Yes, it is an abstraction layer, but no: It's not a black box.

You can inspect the containers, enter them, take a look at the scripts they run, read their logs, take a look at the Dockerfile they were built from.

It's a great way for maintainers to ship their project, because the image is identical and easy to debug, without having to ask the users which distro, libraries, etc. they are using while filing a bug.

So: Take a look at docker. It's worth learning.

#homelab #docker #opensource

I have a small golang app that listens to #zfs zpool events and sends a notification to ntfy.sh or your self-hosted instance of it when there’s state changes with errors. I wonder if more people would be interested in using it. I currently have it running in both #freebsd and #linux servers. #homelab

I recreated my #debian server that runs my #docker apps at my home network, but I am having this weird issue, some applications load but refuse the connection at the designated port. I honestly don't know what is going on. I've spent 2 hours on this already, almost giving up :( #homelab

@nicholasburns Most of it is SAS. But where local storage bit me was in migrating from one host to another as I upgraded XCP 8.2.1 to 8.3. When you have shared storage, moving a node from one compute to another is trivial. When I have only local storage, migrating VMs has been really difficult. It's either time-consuming (20-120 minutes to move a big VM) or even impossible (version-to-version migration on XCP has been difficult with only local storage).

#homelab #selfhosting

@unixorn

I'm going to admit that I am doing something immature in my #homelab and I'm looking for opinions. I've got multiple #XCPng hosts, all using local storage. I have no NFS or iSCSI storage. That's kinda silly. Shared storage is super useful and I'm literally not using it.

Unless I go to some serious effort to make a high-performance SAN, I expect network storage performance to be so-so for VM storage, but maybe I'm too pessimistic. I currently only have copper gigabit in the rack. No fiber, no 2.5G copper or anything like that. I'm not sure if that's going to be viable for NFS or iSCSI.

I could dedicate a host to running TrueNAS Core with a bunch of storage. But what has always bugged me about this is that my storage host becomes a single point of failure for all the compute nodes. #TrueNAS is super reliable but everything has to reboot once in a while, and these stupid enterprise-grade servers take anywhere from 4-8 minutes to boot. If I had a single storage node, and I needed to reboot it for an OS upgrade, everything would hang for a while. That's no good. Not updating the OS on the storage system is also not good.

So what am I supposed to be doing for shared storage on a #Xen cluster? How do I avoid a storage host becoming a single point of failure? How do you update and reboot a storage node, without disrupting everything that depends on it?

#selfhosting #san #storage

I think #FOSDEM might be a perfectly good slot to provide people BSD based systems for free again.

#opensource #learning #education #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd #freevm #freevps #hosting #ipv6 #homelab

This is artisanal code, typed by hand and with love (and a wee bit of swearing and restoring backups) by me, taking inspiration from a lot of tips and links, shared here in the #HomeLab group. I couldn't have done it without y'all, thank you for sharing :) No "AI" was involved in creating this shell script.

Logo source: https://www.aimeecozza.com/human-made/

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@homelab

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Badge with text 100% Human Made, no AI used

A very dangerous and brutal shell script using `exiv2` or, alternatively, when no EXIF data found, the last modification timestamp, to sort pictures into neat directories called YYYY/MM. Set the `odir=` at the top to your preferred output directory.

WARNING: Do not just copy/paste and let it run on your precious picture archive. This is raw, aggressive code that doesn't care about collateral damage. You have been warned.

https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251207PictureEXIFTips.md

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#HomeLab #SysAdminLife #SelfHost @homelab

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#!/bin/bash # Set output directory odir="/mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive/" cdir=$(pwd) echo "exifrename working in $cdir" for f in *.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG,png,PNG,heic,HEIC,cr2,CR2,orf,ORF}; do # Store file extension e=${f##*.}; # Try to find EXIF date using exiv2 command d=$(exiv2 "$f" 2>/dev/null | grep timestamp | cut -d ' ' -f 4,5 | sed 's/ /_/g' | sed 's/://g'); # no EXIF, use mdate if [ -z "$d" ]; then d=$(date -r "$f" +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S); fi # Output to YYYY/MM/ under odir o="$odir${d:0:4}/${d:4:2}/"; # Check for duplicates, add number DUP=1; while [ -f "$o$d.$e" ]; do FTMP="$d"_$DUP if [ ! -f "$o$FTMP.$e" ]; then d=$FTMP fi DUP=$((DUP+1)) done echo "$f -> $o$d.$e"; # Uncomment the preferred set of commands, either cp or mv # mkdir -p "$o" # cp "$f" "$o$d.$e"; # mv --no-clobber "$f" "$o$d.$e"; done echo "exifrename DONE working in $cdir"

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# exifrename exifrename working in /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/TBS/Screenshots Atari-800XL.jpg -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive/2025/10/20251022_084037.jpg image_from_ios (1).jpg -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive/2025/09/20250923_211202.jpg image_from_ios.jpg -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive/2025/09/20250922_234044.jpg IMG_4807.jpg -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive/2025/10/20251015_192924.jpg IMG_4812.jpg -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive/2025/10/20251015_191414.jpg /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive/2025/11/20251128_135848.png date: '*.PNG': No such file or directory *.PNG -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive///.PNG date: '*.heic': No such file or directory *.heic -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive///.heic date: '*.HEIC': No such file or directory *.HEIC -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive///.HEIC date: '*.cr2': No such file or directory *.cr2 -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive///.cr2 date: '*.CR2': No such file or directory *.CR2 -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive///.CR2 date: '*.orf': No such file or directory *.orf -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive///.orf date: '*.ORF': No such file or directory *.ORF -> /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/PixArchive///.ORF exifrename DONE working in /mnt/r1_8TB/smb/pub/TBS/Screenshots

We're coming even closer to you again with our new locations which will be available soon for deployments:

* UK, London
* Norway, Sandefjord
* Sweden, Stockholm
* Canada, Toronto
* US, Kansas

#BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #VM #VPS #FreeVPS #FreeVM #education #opensource #homelab #learning #ipv6 @gyptazy

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BoxyBSD logo with a globe - creating new locations across the globe

Project Rebel Homebase – Teil 2 ist live. Erinnert ihr euch an Teil 1?
Jetzt wird’s physisch: Statt VM-Kuschelwelt gibt’s echtes Metall, echte Hitze und sechs Raspberry-CM-Blades, die nur dank Airflow nicht sofort in die Knie gehen.

Der Unterbau steht – das Skelett der Rebellion.

https://www.pandolin.io/project-rebel-homebase-teil-2-das-skelett-der-rebellion/

#RebelHomebase #Homelab #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #Kubernetes #k3s #DigitaleSouveränität #CloudRebelAlliance

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3D-gedrucktes Mini-Rack in Schwarz-Weiß, bestückt mit sechs Raspberry-Pi-Compute-Blades, deren LEDs in Grün, Rot und Gelb leuchten. Darunter ein Ubiquiti-Switch mit ordentlich geführten weißen Netzwerkkabeln. Auf dem Rack sitzt eine kleine Lego-Pinguinfigur und schaut über die Technik hinweg.

I think I'm gonna form a new band called "Cardinality Explosion". And the title album will be "All the metrics I shouldn't be exporting". Presented to you by "Random Operator Records". 💥

#HomeLab #o11y #observability @homelab

Hm. Does anyone have a little shell script that does this:

- Find all picture files
- Check if it has EXIF data and if yes, rename the file to YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS using the EXIF creation date
- If NOT, rename the file to the same pattern, but use the filesystem last modified date

I have `for img in $(ls *.[Jj][Pp][Gg] 2> /dev/null); do exiv2 -r'%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_'"$(tmp=${img%%.*};echo ${tmp##*_})" rename "$img" ; done`whicj does the first part, but fails when no EXIF

#HomeLab #SysAdminLife @homelab

I upgraded #xcpng and I just noticed that it has some IPMI integration. It's able to tell a few things about power and temperature and display it at the bottom. It just discovered all these attributes. I didn't do anything to turn that on.

#homelab #selfhosting

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Screenshot of an XCP-ng dashboard. It shows 56 CPU threads, 320Gb of RAM, 4 network connextions, 4 storage locations. At the bottom, it's showing Total Power 308 watts, 2 PSUs with a green check, 2 CPUs with highest temperature 72C, and inlet temperature of airflow 17C. It has 0 fans and no outlet temperature. Apparently it can't get those.

And while doing sysadmin stuff, I also updated all 3 #forgejo runners to the current 12.1.0 version. Now to write that blog entry on how to setup Samba on a Linux box that allows you to create and use Time Machine backups for Apple machines. I learned a lot about that topic in the past few days :)

#Selfhost #Homelab #SysAdminLife @homelab

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Screenshot showing my 3 forgejo runners are now at version 12.1.0

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An Apple machine being backed up using Time Machine with a Samba share on a Linux server as backup target.

It's Friday, so as always I did the `dnf update`, followed by a `reboot` on my little pool of 8 servers. I also deployed a certificate with certbot on my new NAS box, using certbot and my own certificate authority. For details on that: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/07/letsencrypt-homelab-stepca/ The weekend can start :)

#Selfhost #Homelab #SysAdminLife @homelab

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Screenshot of a terminal session where I successfully install the root certificate from my own certificate authority and request a TLS certificate from it for my new NAS box.

I started kicking the tires on n8n this week. The appeal for me is that I can run it on my #homelab and it was a one-click installation via Coolify.

Even a few hours into playing with it, I can already see a few subscriptions I was paying for won't be needed anymore.

I had this recent exchange with my wife:

Wife: What is FreeBSD?

Me: It's Unix, an operating system, and it's awesome!

Wife: Oh OK. The only reason I asked is because I am finding these FreeBSD CDs around the house. FreeBSD 12.0, 13.3, 14.0.

Me: Yeah, I use the old versions as coasters for my tea mugs.

Wife: *pauses, laughs* I can see that.

#FreeBSD #homelab #tech #fun #unix #computers #freebsd15 #operatingsystem #awesome

It’s coming together. I have 2 out of 6 racked. All the power is in the rack. Network and all the actual workloads are still on the bread rack behind and to the right. I will get these 2 servers online, move a bunch of workloads to them, and then I’ll be able to move more servers off the bread rack to the new rack.

I don’t see any way to redo the networking without some brief outages. I’ll have to disconnect the router, move it, and reconnect. A few minutes of disruption.

That’s going to be the hardest part: the main network wire runs through the whole basement and pops out in the garage and it’s basically at its limit. I have about 5-6 feet in the garage and that’s it. So when the main router finally moves to the rack, the rack has to be in its final location and then it can’t really move much.

Either that, or I just stick one of these RJ45 couplers on there and extend the line. I only have 200Mbit service, so I’m not worried about losing bandwidth to a coupler.

#homelab #selfhosting

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Photo of a full size 42U rack. There’s a monitor at the top showing the blue Dell EMC logo, and 2 servers on rails beneath it. At the bottom are 2 UPSes.

So I bought a full-sized rack for the garage. Might be a bit too big to call it a #homelab any more 😜

It came with 2 PDUs that take 3-phase, 60A, 250V AC. I, um, won’t be plugging those into the house. My servers run on 240V, 2-phase. This plug is just a monster. My hand in the photo for scale.

I’m tickled that it says “Sun” on the side. I got my start in #sysadmin work on Sun IPCs and Sparc 4s back in the day.

#selfhosting

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Photo of the PDU mounted in the rack. It has 6 banks of 6 plugs each.

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Photo of the side of the rack with the “Sun Oracle” logo on it. I like the Sun icon with the 4 S’s

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The IEC309 power plug. My hand for scale. Just the wire itself is huge.

At this weekend I finally established another network in my home — a ZigBee network. A looong time ago (in 2010 year) I touched the ZigBee networking in my university (ITMO, previously IFMO, in Saint-Petersburg) — these times it was a new technology, not used widely. And as a student I have some fun time playing with ZigBee main router, supplemental router and end-devices. You can view old photos and screenshots of old software on a my extremely old blog: http://h0rr0rr-drag0n.blogspot.com/2010/04/cc2530zdk.html (and read a blogpost, if you understand Russian).

It is kindly fascinating, that now, after 15 years, I can just buy some ZigBee-powered devices from AliExpress (using Black Friday discounts) and connect them to the network inside my house right in the way I did it in the university 15 years ago!

Sadly, although I bought native supported main router device, based on the EFR32MG2 with some software from Ember (EZSP v8) inside, the OpenHAB doesn't support this device natively — it supports it, but since my server is running NetBSD, I got problems with some bundled with OpenHAB things. Looks like some native libraries (rxtx-java) don't have bundled NetBSD versions. And the same library in the repository built for Java 8, not for Java 17.

So, I decided to use Zigbee2MQTT, not to build the necessary Java library myself. It was kinda scary — use program, which connects my ZigBee network via ZigBee USB-dongle to the MQTT server — which is written on JavaScript . Not on the C (as I can totally understand, for a such low-level program, operating with embedded devices) or at least on the C++/Perl/Python/whatever. But, looks like it works good enough, if I don't try to pair the device in wrong mode (my window sensors has two modes to pair them with network: first "common" mode causes zigbee2mqtt to silently crash and the second "compatible" mode works without problems).

And I could understand now, why people has so much problems with smart home security. Installed MQTT server mosquitto — it allows unauthenticated connections by default. Installed zigbee2mqtt — it allow connections to frontend without any password by default

At least these two services don't each much memory: 1.2 Mb for Mosquitto and 75.6 Mb for ZigBee2MQTT.

For now, my ZigBee sensors works pretty well and robust, like these devices from university 15 years ago

#HomeAutomation #OpenHAB #ZigBee #HomeLab

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OpenHAB main page with some labels in it. Labels divided into two parts: "Weather" and "Home". On the "Weather" part there are labels with the next contents: 1) Temperature (-0.1°C) with temperature graph on the background. 2) Textual description of the weather (cloudy) 3) Pressure (759,062 mmHg) with pressure graph on the background 4) Humidity (93%) 5) Wind speed (18,7 km/h) On the "Home" part there are the next labels with data from my ZigBee sensors: 1) Temperature in the living room (23.3°C) with temperature graph on the background. 2) Temperature in the kitchen (22.4°C) with temperature graph on the background. 3) Humidity in the living room (23.0%) with humidity graph on the background. 4) Humidity in the kitchen (29.0%) with humidity graph on the background. 5) State of the window in the living room (window opened).

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Zigbee2MQTT dashboard with three devices in it: 1) Temperature sensor in kitchen. It exposes the temperature, humidity, signal level and battery level. Also it provides controls to set temperature units, and to calibrate readings of temperature/humidity. 2) Temperature sensor in living room. It has the same controls. 3) Sensor with magnet contact, installed on the window in the living room. It exposes, set of contact, "low battery" signal, battery level and signal level.

I picked up a Home Assistant Green to replace my broken RPi3 Home Assistant box last holiday season. After a year of using it, it's been stable and an excellent addition to my #homelab

We had to replace our washing machine this year, and it has Home Assistant integration, which is pretty cool. I haven't quite figured out what to do with this data, but I'm debating flashing something on our TV or changing one of the bulbs' colors so that I see it.

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Screenshot of my Home Assistant setup featuring my Dryer with various options like run cycles and remaining time left.

(28 Nov) Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution

Self‑hosting isn’t anti‑cloud; it’s pro‑agency. It’s choosing the right locus of control for the things you care about.

https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-rising/
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/ltae5

#homelab #opinion

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Warp Terminal

How do you guys block YouTube shorts in your network? I'm not sure if Adguard Home or RouterOS can do this.

#networking #sysadmin #homelab #privacy

Digitale Souveränität fängt im Kleinen an. Statt nur abstrakte Cloud-Services zu konsumieren (Lego Duplo), baue ich mir meine Infrastruktur selbst (Fischertechnik).

Mit: Raspberry CM5, Uptime Blades, 3D-Druck & Lötkolben. Willkommen in der #RebelHomebase.

Im Blog erkläre ich das philosophische und technische „Warum“ hinter meinem Mini-Datacenter auf dem Schreibtisch.

https://chk.me/SwMISqd

#DigitaleSouveränität #FOSS #Homelab #Linux #OpenSource #Kubernetes #k3s #CloudRebelAlliance

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A self printed 10 inch rack with 6 ARM Blades

New blog post!

It is about how this Mastodon instance is backed up daily without downtime =)

https://www.yevi.org/blog/daily-matrix-and-mastodon-backups-with-zero-downtime

#Mastodon #Matrix #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #SelfHost #HomeLab #Ansible #Proxmox #Backup #PBS #ProxmoxVE #Blog #GlitchySocial

Boostez votre #Homelab Proxmox ! 🚀

Fini les manipulations complexes de scripts. Cette interface web moderne (Next.js/React) vous permet de gérer les scripts communautaires PVE du bout des doigts. Un must-have ! ✨

➡️ Le Repo: https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE-Local

#Proxmox #ProxmoxVE #PVE #Selfhosting #SysAdmin #DevOps #WebUI #OpenSource

The power meter is a simple Revolt branded power strip with 3 sockets and the power meter. I got two of them for €20. They are not super precise, they are GoodEnough™ for my use case of regularly taking a look at the display. No Wifi or Bluetooth with these :) 3/3

#HomeLab #SelfHost @homelab

#opensuse Leap 16.0 is out! I have some free time today so I'd figure I'd try it out in a VM.

Initial impressions:

New, streamlined installer just requires a few clicks with minimal input required. In a few minutes the installer finished. Rebooted and BAM! The OS boots straight into this mess!

This is not XFCE with Wayland. Time to troubleshoot.

...sigh...

#linux #homelab

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An error message presented by openSUSE Leap 16.0 while trying to boot into the OS.

The new hard drives for my NAS (Network Attached Storage) build have arrived. Two WD (Western Digital) RED 8TB. I will go shopping now after unpacking, so they can adapt to room temperature for a few hours before I install them and power them up. Never forget that step! Wait until they have reached room temperature. And then wait a few hours more. When you spin them up too early, they might get damaged. Don't ask why I know ;)

#Selfhost #Homelab @homelab

I unplugged the UPS to put the power meter in, so it was also a test of the UPS connection. And it worked as expected. The rack kept on humming and the apcupsd daemon wrote the expected log entries about the event. Yay :) 2/3

#HomeLab #SelfHost @homelab

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Log entries from apcupsd: 12:45 PM Power is back. UPS running on mains. 12:45 PM Mains returned. No longer on UPS batteries. 12:45 PM Running on UPS batteries. 12:45 PM Power failure.

Upgraded my cute homelab [1] with a simple power meter that sits before the UPS. The whole thing, so 3x Lenovo Tiny PCs, a max 120W 10 port network switch with PoE, a Raspberry Pi 4B, the 4 port KVM switch (both PoE powered) and the 500VA UPS uses 50-55W when idle, up to 120-130W under load. I call that very reasonable :) 1/3

[1] https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/05/Cute-Homelab/

#SelfHost #Homelab @homelab

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My homelab, a 6 units 10" rack with (from top to bottom) a 10 port network switch, a patch panel, a 4 port KVM switch and 3 Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny PC from the M9xx series.

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The power meter in front of the cute homelab, showing a total power use of 48W

Silly idea for a computer home lab: you probably have a couple old smartphones lying around, gathering dust.
Maybe you can build a compute cluster from them though? They are probably some of the most efficient compute devices available. Also passively cooled so zero noise! With OTG, it might be possible to even connect to them serious storage and build a Ceph cluster...

https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/self-hosting-a-cluster-on-old-phones/

#tinkering #homeserver #homelab #computers #sysadmin #upcycling

🚨 Alerte Proxmox 9 ! 🚨

Mes conteneurs Docker/LXC ne démarraient plus après la mise à jour containerd.io... 🤯

J'ai trouvé l'origine du problème (le conflit AppArmor/runc) et je vous explique la seule façon de le corriger (ou de l'éviter !) pour relancer vos services rapidement.

Le guide complet est sur mon wiki 👇 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/proxmox-9-apparmor-docker-lxc-conflit-demarrage

#Proxmox #Docker #LXC #AppArmor #SysAdmin #Homelab

Wanna debug #apache #httpd? Stop it and then:

`sudo apache2ctl -X -c 'LogLevel trace6' -c 'ErrorLog "| /bin/cat"'`

Edit: bu, still most of the data ends up in the error log file anyways :(

#SysAdmin #HomeLab

I'm in Australia right now. I can boot my home PC via Wake On LAN to access my files if I have to. I placed a webcam in front of it so that I can verify that it actually does so.

It's weird seeing my computer 16.500 km away from me. It feels like my own little Mars mission. Especially with how SSH feels at 300-400 ms latency.

And yes, that's a drinking glass I forgot on my desk.

#HomeLab #Linux #WakeOnLAN #SSH #Australia

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Webcam capture of a completely dark room. The brightest thing is a large monitor displaying a linux console. In front of it, a drinking glass can be made out. Below the monitor, a keyboard is lit up in green.

The Self-Hosting Starter Pack: 5 Simple Tools I Recommend To Get Started With Your Homelab https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-starting-projects/ #Homelab #List📋

I have had bad luck with HDDs lately.

I bought 4*16TB refurbished, one of them is broken.

One 2TB had checksum issues at my dad's house. I have given him a new HDD of the same size just in case. He replaced the drive. I replaced the drive in the pool. But the pool stays degraded. The drive has so many errors it has been disabled.

That can't be the drives. We have replaced at least 3 or 4 drives and we still have checksums issues. That must be the cables or the sata ports.

#homelab #selfhosting

Just installed good old trusty `trac` https://trac.edgewall.org/on my system. I'm deploying with Ansible and on a VM, and it was failing while setting the locale. It needs `LC_ALL` set, which for some reason was not set in my system. Set it with `update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8`.

#HomeLab #SysAdmin

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.

Sur le blog, un rapide billet de réflexion sur le sujet #HomeLab, Cluster #Proxmox et #WakeOnLan https://blog.genma.fr/?HomeLab-Cluster-Proxmox-et-WakeOnLan

J'ai un #synology DS1515+ qui vient de cramer...
Me voilà avec 2 + 1 disques 4To ... (2 du NAS + 1 de sauvegarde hors toute électricité)
Qu'en feriez-vous à ma place ?
J'ai déjà dans mon #homelab 4 x 6To et 3 x 3To et je n'ai plus de place dans mon boîtier(les 3To ont quasi 90 000 heures au compteur... ça va lâcher bientôt !).
#NAS #ugreen ? J'ai envie de voir ... mais bon j'essaye de ne plus acheter par geekitude ... la planète n'a pas besoin de ça...
Boîtier usb3 ?

News from my homelab:

My single node OpenShift "cluster" is now running the nfs-ganesha-server-provisioner to provide ReadWriteMany storage to the OpenShift Virtualization, so I can run VMs in OpenShift!

(The nfs server is using a persistentVolume provided by Longhorn and makes this available as RWX storage. Don't talk about performance, but nice that this works...)

Currently looking into the documentation to see how I can actually make the VM reachable from the outside... :-)

#Kubernetes #OpenShift #Homelab #Longhorn #Ganesha #Hellyeah

This is part of my weekend fun. Coffee stains included.
The two Raspberry Pis are powered by NetBSD, the mini PC by illumos/SmartOS, and the two APU boards by FreeBSD.

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #illumos #SmartOS #IT #SysAdmin #HomeLab #RaspberryPI

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A top-down shot of a small computer setup on a tan surface with some visible coffee stains. In the upper left, a silver mini-PC is partially visible, with a black USB stick plugged into its side. Below the mini-PC, a black USB to TTL serial adapter is connected to and powering a Raspberry Pi A+. The Raspberry Pi Zero W is connected to and driving a 2-relay module. The Raspberry Pis are running NetBSD, the mini-PC is running llumos/SmartOS, and the two, slightly visible APU devices are running FreeBSD.

#Homelab 2022 Part 2 - #Samba on #SmartOS #Illumos using delegated datasets : https://thetooth.name/blog/homelab-2022-part-2-samba-on-smartos-using-delegated-datasets/

Pretty cool trick so you don’t have to deploy a fully fledged Anubis to protect against DDoS-by-LLM-companies?

https://fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/

#selfHosting #homelab #sre

I'm setting up a kubernetes service running PS3netsrv to serve PS3 games from my network storage to the PS3 I just jailbroke. How's your halloween going?

#homelab #retrocomputing

In early September, The Matrix Foundation homeserver went down.

I'm extremely proud of our SRE team. They had a Disaster Recovery Plan and monthly exercises to apply it, resulting in no data loss despite a 24h outage.

I've learned a lot about how to properly backup/restore a Postgres database when writing this post with SREs. We also learned how to better prevent and be resilient to human error.

Thanks all for the hugops during the outage!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-mortem/

#homelab #selfHosting #sre

This release adds features that were requested during the #DutchProxmoxDay2025 which was hosted by our friends Tuxis (tuxis.nl). I'm hearing your feedback and all your feedback from the community and user base is important to me, so let me introduce the following new features:

* Add an optional memory balancing threshold
* Add affinity/anti-affinity support by pools
* Add pressure (PSI) based balancing for memory, cpu, disk
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for nodes
* Pressure (PSI) based balancing for guests

You can simply upgrade via APT or by obtaining the latest Docker/Container image. PSI based balancing (still in beta) requires Proxmox VE 9 or greater.

Thanks to my employer
@credativ@mastodon.social (https://credativ.de) who provides me the required time to work at this.

GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB
GitHub Release: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB/releases/tag/v1.1.9
Author: @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

#PVE #Proxmox #Community #OpenSource #FOSS #gyptazy #DutchProxmoxDay #coding #projects #virtualization #vms #hypervisor #homelab #vmware #alternatives #pve #balancing

It's been a long day. Tomorrow though, I really need this MikroTik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe, running the home router, to be quiet. Therefore, lay in bed, figure out which Thermal Grizzly conductive pad is most appropriate for replacement between the NIC's heatsink.. and maybe there a STL file for making a carbon fitment plus copper core (taken from an old Broadwell system, heatsink with a couple of blah blah blah... yep. Go to sleep brain, stop this, maybe more tomorrow.

So GPT-Pro and Deep Research... tell me what to buy.

#homelab #tired #mikrotik #intel #mellanox #networking #sleepy #uuuuuuugh #gptpro

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another NIC needing thermal paste to reduce dB

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another NIC needing thermal paste to reduce dB

My minio instance has very basic needs and continues to chug along, but they've clearly made every effort to do away with the community version and I need to figure out a plan before I'm stuck.

Anyone switched to Garage?

Any other suggestions for self-hosting S3 compatible storage?

I'm basically only using it for hosting static pages, restic backup target, and sometimes as a media store for matrix / GoToSocial (though I think neither at this exact moment).

#homelab #selfhosting

Any #ZFS folks want to offer me an opinion on the following? I have 2 ZFS pool of raidz2 with 7 2TB SAS drives each (about 11.5T). I want to add a LOG drive. I have a single SAS SSD that's 300G. When I suggested using a 1TB LOG drive earlier, someone said that was way too much. (which is why I picked up a used 300G SSD)

My question is whether it makes sense (is possible) to partition that drive into 2 partitions and have one pool use 1 partition as a log drive (e.g., 150G) and the other pool use the other partition as a log drive on the same physical device.

Is this going to be worse because it's just too much IO on one device? Is it reasonable? Any other ideas?

Thanks
#homelab #linux #selfhost

My #nixos server "anti- fuck up" guidelines:

- Never reboot ❌
- Never rebuild switch ❌
- Always deploy with deploy-rs (magic rollback) 🎉

What are yours for an unbreakable server?
#linux #homelab

🔐 Nouvelle automatisation Proxmox !

Marre des mises à jour manuelles ? 😩

Nouvelle publication sur le Wiki : Automatisez la mise à jour complète de tous vos Conteneurs LXC et VMs (Debian/Ubuntu) sur Proxmox VE grâce à deux scripts Cron.

➡️ Gagnez du temps, restez sécurisé.

Lien direct : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/script-update-lxc-vm-proxmox

Disponible aussi sur ByteStash (solution de stockage d'extraits de code) : https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/a055d43f24f8b58218b4cbdad100b7ec

#Proxmox #HomeLab #SysAdmin #DevOps #Automatisation #Linux #cybersécurité

I have a CA in my homelab that gives out short lifespan TLS and SSH certs. The lifespan is 48 hours, and they renew daily on a cron (Their crons are randomly spread out throughout the day so they don't all renew at once). I have alerting rules to monitor for any with lifespan <24 hours, and fire alerts to let me know somethings wrong.

Spotted the problem? The hour went back last night, as BST ended. All my servers use local time, not UTC. Every single TLS and SSH cert had an hour today where their certs were <24 hours from expiring, but hadn't hit their renewal cront time yet.

My email and Discord alerts have not. stopped. pinging. all. day. (I have a *lot* of certificates in this lab lol) gonna have to fix this before next year!

#HomeLab #Monitoring #Certificates

The next step in my #homelab setup will be the installation of a relay for syncthing

See, I left Facebook more than 10 years ago, my home has been Microsoft-free since around 1998. I run my #Homelab where I store all my digital stuff (photos, scanned documents, LibreOffice files etc) on a NAS (Network Attached Storage) server that runs Linux. I have never used AWS or Azure, if I need some compute capacity, I rent VPS (Virtual Private Server) at EU based hosting companies. I did #DigitalSovereignty long before the term even existed. You can become the owner of your data too!

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I need some #Linux touchers and #HomeLab gurus to explain in excruciating detail what I'm doing wrong.

I want my #JellyFin server to be served over HTTPS.

I had nginxproxymanager running, but it has stopped working with Let's Encrypt.

What's the *simplest* way to add HTTPS to #JellyFin? It's an Ubuntu box with the default Jellyfin installed (no Docker or anything complicated like that).

Informed speculation welcomed!

I've been on the hunt for some accessible, easily self-hosted (on prem or datacenter) chat solution for a while now, and I've been looking very closely at deltachat/chatmail.

Not gonna lie, the fact that just uses mature SMTP facilities for transport is making me weirdly aroused.

If anyone has experience running their own chatmail server or just using deltachat in general, I'd be glad to hear from you.

#DeltaChat #ChatMail #SelfHosted #HomeLab

It's a very bad day for #Minio users. (Ceph RGW is a mature alternative, though not a trivial migration for most.)

https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647

#ceph #opensource #homelab #kubernetes #containers #cloudnative #DevOps

@paco Linux LVM doesn't have as many data security features as ZFS or BTFS have. Those security features come at a performance cost. There is a lot more chance for bitrot with LVM. There are ways to mitigate the data security/performace cost with ZFS.

If your #homelab VMs are completely disposable/cattle, #lvm may not a bad choice for better performance. If you have a long reconfigure time from a busted VM, #zfs may be a safer choice.

I'm building a #Dell server and I have a couple choices of disk controller. The chassis is an R730xd.

My choices are:

1. Broadcom SAS3008 SAS PCIe controller, RAID6 LVM
2. Dell PERC H330 Mini (the original that came with the system) using the built in RAID5
3. Dell PERC H330 mini in HBA mode with LVM RAID6

The system will run XCP-ng on bare metal, and host a whole lot of general purpose BSD and Linux VMs and VPSes. It's got 320G of RAM and 14 2Tb SAS drives.

Thoughts? Boosts welcome. Suggestions for totally different hardware or software configurations not welcome.

#homelab #selfhosted

If anybody is using #dell servers in their #homelab and you have super noisy fans, I just discovered this Docker container solution that will set the fans to a reasonable speed.

I'm using a 3rd-party PCI SAS controller, and that seems to cause the server to go apeshit. Fans sound like they're ready for liftoff. This fixes it right away.
#selfhosting #selfhosted

If you have an #ASUS router from the current or last gen and want to do some #HomeLab networking, then I recommend #MerlinWRT. If you're using AiMesh (whether or not as a mesh network), then only the router(s) need it. The ASUS stuff should continue to work (app, DDNS, etc.), but you'll have more control over the finer points of your network to do LAG, run your own DNS, etc., from the router.

https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki

#networking

I keep plugging the drive sled into the server and the lights never come on and the server doesn’t recognise the drive.

PEBCAS - Problem exists between chair and screwdriver.
#homelab #diy #server

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Photo of a 2.5 inch hard drive in a drive sled for sliding into servers. The drive’s gold contacts are clearly backwards so they won’t make contact when it slides into the server chassis. Some idiot named yours truly did that. 😜

Is there a way to manually prefilter an #email account?

Context.: https://en.osm.town/@mdione/115390140394066150

#parenting #SysAdmin #HomeLab

What is you favorite #tech #software #homelab #linux #freebsd news site? I’m asking because I want some rss feeds to add to my daily reading. Thanks ❤️

Get some cheap harddrives on eBay, they said (well I said...). You'll save money I said..

This is just dumb. I bought inexpensive used drives, but then for various reasons I didn't get around to even powering them up until well past the return window on eBay.

So when I finally got them spun up? 12 out of 14 completely useless.
#homelab #selfhosting #ebay

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A screenshot from a RAID controller. It shows an inventory of 14 hard disks with all but 2 of them showing a red x and state "failed." Not shown in the picture, my facepalm when I finally concluded the drives were bad...

Configuring a new #Dell server in the #homelab. Who the fuck makes up settings like this!?
“Select timeout value. (0 defaults to 4 seconds, 15 is no delay, 1-14 is timeout value in seconds)”

0 is 4,
1 is 1,
2 is 2,
4 is 4,
15 is 0
#selfhosting #selfhosted

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Photo of a screen. It shows a notice saying “Select timeout value. (0 defaults to 4 seconds, 15 is no delay, 1-14 is timeout value in seconds)”

J'ai installé uptime kuma qu'on m'avait conseillé ici, , et ça marche très. Je cherchais un truc aussi simple pour faire de la supervision système (disque, CPU, RAM, network), et je viens de découvrir #beszel https://beszel.dev/ 🤩
Un serveur qui centralise les données, des agents qui se déploient en ligne de commande fournie , un peu de conf SMTP et hop ! Les alarmes fonctionnent, les graphes pour les métriques basiques, tout mon #homelab supervisé en 30 minutes !
#autohebergement

Je suis en train de monter mon #homelab mais la question qui me tourmente, c'est la supervision.
#cacti ? #librenms ? #prometheus ?
Autre ?
Je cherche quelque chose de simple qui me permettent d'ajouter une machine et d'alerter sur des seuils d'alerte.
J'ai commence avec #prometheus, qui me semble tres bien, mais j'ai pas envie de passer du temps sur grafana pour creer un dashboard.
Des propositions ?
#autohebergement #supervision #homelab

My relay at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like #Linux, #BSD, #Ansible, #Proxmox, #Coding, and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using #Pleroma, #snac (#snac2), #Mastodon and its forks 🙂

#fedi #fediworld #fedicommunity #community #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #homelab #Python #Debian #RockyLinux #Feditips

Migrated my ZigBee2MQTT to FreeBSD 14.3, of course, running inside a Jail (and with IPv6!) 🙂

All running perfectly fine and as stable as you'd expect from FreeBSD

Plus the rc.d script is so minimalistic and simple, that I don''t get it, why anyone would prefer intransparent systemd to that !

Another part of my home-infrastructure migrated over!

#freebsd #jais #zigbee #mqtt #smarthome #unix #homelab

Ordered two #hetzner servers. Going to move some of my #homelab services to them so I can power down the power hungry servers I have at home.

Great success! I've returned my instance back to local storage, all in aid of reducing costs in other cloud platforms.

I had set up nginx to cache my S3 media in SSD cache space, so now I need to modify that config to do the same for my media living on high-capacity spinning rust.
I know that as a small instance this isnt really needed, but who knows, maybe I'll have a sudden influx of new users and will be glad of having it set up!

#sysadmin #mastoadmin #homelab #backblazeb2

😅 Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet

｢ The policy, introduced earlier this year, made third-party HDDs from brands like Seagate and WD practically unusable in newer models such as the DS925+, DS1825+, and DS425+ ｣

https://www.guru3d.com/story/synology-reverses-policy-banning-thirdparty-hdds-after-nas-sales-plummet/

#nas #synology #homelab

My current yak:

* Wanted to switch from `mod-php` to `php-fpm` #php #apache
* setup a dev instance and pointed #Ansible there
* Fixed many bugs in my playbooks
* Ended up breaking `apt`:

```
$ apt search apache2 | head
apache2/stable,stable 2.4.65-2 amd64
(none)
```

#debian #SysAdmin #HomeLab

#AdGuardHome #Pihole #DNS #SysAdmin #Homelab #TechLife #TechTips #IT #Réseaux #Configuration #Automatisation #AdGuardSync

If you've a single server with a bunch of disks (see picture) would you rather:
* Create two independent LVMs 1 for the 4x 2TB disks and another one for the 20x931.5G disks? (with 1 luks volume per physical disk)
* Same as above but with 1 luks volume per logical volume served by the LVM.
* Glusterfs with encryption feature enabled.
* Glusterfs with 1 luks volume per physical disk.
* ...?

What would you go with and why?

#server #homelab

#opensource #pve #proxmoxve #foss #debian #linux #apt #security #homelab

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ProxLB with upcoming new major features for Proxmox based clusters

C'est l'outil idéal pour enrichir votre bibliothèque personnelle en mode "coller l'URL et oublier les tracas" ! 💾

🚀 Installation Express (Merci la Communauté !)
Vous voulez l'essayer tout de suite ? Utilisez un docker-compose.yml préconfiguré :

🔗 Lien direct pour le Docker Compose : https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/7649ba8ffd903c2bb061877405dcddbf

Hashtags Populaires
#HomeTube #VideoDownloader #HomeLab #Plex #Jellyfin #SelfHosted #Docker #Proxmox #SponsorBlock #NoAds #AutoOrganization 🎬🚀

tootctl media remove --days=7
ETA: 41:56:22

Ah. This'll take longer than just a single coffee break. Ah well. See you all on the other side of a great media purge!

After that, it's syncing my B2 bucket back to my local disk!

#sysadmin #mastoadmin #homelab #backblazeb2

Had to change my #proxmox machines from CPU type x86-64-v2 to x86-64-v4 to support #mongodb > v5.0 as they require avx instructions now #rant #homelab #selfhost

MikroTik ne gère pas le DNS failover… Et si je simulais ça dans #containerlab ?

Je bosse sur une solution avec pseudo failover via DNS forwarding pour mon homelab

Vous seriez intéressé que je documente ça ?

#Homelab #MikroTik #DNS #Failover #DevOps #Network

Proxmox in Enterprises: I'm often asked, 'Can we use our Active Directory, LDAP, or OIDC with Proxmox?' Yes, you can!

Let's have quick dive into installing and configuring Authentik and configure Proxmox VE to use OIDC as an additional authentication realm.

#Proxmox #ProxmoxVE #opensource #Authentik #OpenID #OpenIDConnect #OIDC #EntraID #enterprise #homelab

https://gyptazy.com/proxmox-authentik-oidc-install-configure-and-connect-authentik-to-proxmox-ve/