My MacBook NEVER has enough disk space. So it’s nice to work with remote datasets over S3 to save space… but except when the bucket is on the other side of the ocean and AWS won’t push bits to my house much faster than 100Mbps 😅

So I set up my own mini S3 on my homelab server!

https://blog.ianwwagner.com/running-garage-in-a-freebsd-jail.html

#FreeBSD #HomeLab #RunBSD #rustlang

📓 Neuer Beitrag auf Shellstube:

OPNsense: Eigene Firewall fürs Homelab mit VLANs

OPNsense übernimmt die PPPoE-Einwahl (FritzBox nur Bridge), fünf VLANs trennen Management, Clients, Gäste, Infrastruktur und IoT, ein Managed Switch trunkt die VLANs und ein Omada-AP strahlt getrennte WLANs aus — ein professionell segmentiertes Heimnetz statt Consumer-Router.

https://shellstube.de/anleitungen/opnsense-firewall-vlans-homelab/
#Homelab #SelfHosting #Linux

i’m very confident in my #nix (os) skills on the server (running three #homelab servers on it). however, never really used it on the mac. recently been thinking whether it would be worth migrating my homebrew file from my dotfiles repo over to some nix config. anyone using it that way or has links/ opinions?

I made a full circle on large data #backup options and am now back to #rsync. The difference is that I’m now much more confident in running headless data sync by cron.

Data origin -> DAS -> #Hetzner Storage Box

It looks like 3-2-1, and I’m now all set to migrate my family from #iCloud to #Immich and #OpenCloud.

Also, the DAS is #exFAT, which allows my siblings to just detach it from my #homelab to have data exported in case of my sudden disappearance by any reason.

💡"Before going to bed, let me just try this quick thing I read about earlier today". 🧠

🕕Narrator: three hours later... 🫩

#HomeLab @homelab

Last before-vacation #maintenance done. #VPN configured, shutdown on low #UPS battery tested, #backups in place. I’m about to leave my #homelab alone for 8 days. To rest and unwind from everything.

Wow, storage prices are insane.

#HomeLab #RetroComputing

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A small collection of 3.5 inch floppies, selling for $150 (down from $180) on Facebook Marketplace.

Oh, here is my recovery point! I completely forgot that #JetKVM has #WakeOnLan capabilities. I'll leave it powered on and connect to my #HomeLab VLAN. That way, I'll have a device to power on all my other servers in case of stranger things.

Context: I'm preparing for a week-long vacation far from my #HomeLab.

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A screenshot of the Wake-on-LAN dialog from JetKVM UI.

Neuer Artikel: Docker Compose für Einsteiger – https://rootwerkstatt.de/docker-compose-einsteiger/ #docker #selfhosting #homelab #linux

I was researching a way to get to my home network remotely when my #pocketID is unreachable, as I’m using it as an identity provider for #Tailscale. Turns out #unifi One-Click VPN is like Tailscale, but with the server on your router. Also, it is actually a #wireguard so you can connect any server to it. Looks like a good alternative for Tailscale.

#homelab #SelfHosted #selfhost #selfhosting

fedi, is there a good way to collect and view netflow or similar data that's practical to host yourself? preferably something with pretty charts and graphs

#askfedi #networking #homelab

le T430 non seulement boot, mais il y a une debian installée par mes soins (2018?) qui tourne.
backup, puis install propre et ça part en prod.

#homelab #selfhosting

📚 benjaminjonard/koillection

Koillection is a self-hosted service allowing users to manage any kind of collections.

Manages self-hosted collections of books, DVDs, stamps and more with customizable metadata and scraping

⭐ Stars: 1223
📅 Last Update: Jun 26, 2026

https://github.com/benjaminjonard/koillection

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #collectionmanager

Was anyone able to fully replace #discord with a self-hosted alternative?

I tried #matrix and the chat works quite well but I didn't yet get to calls or voice channels.

#selfhosting #homelab

Part 2 of the homelab downsizing series: Did the Rebuild Actually Save Power?

Cutting the power bill was a main reason for retiring two dual-Xeon servers. Whole-house metering drowns out a 300 W server load, so I did the honest, bounded math — then put smart plugs on all four boxes to check. The old pair landed within ~1% of my estimate; the mini PCs drew about half.

#homelab #proxmox #energy #selfhosted

https://homelab.tod.net/posts/did-the-rebuild-actually-save-power/

I'm stuck with Proton for another year. After that, self-hosting email and VPN. They don't care about Linux users, and there's only so many times you can make a mistake and apologize before it stops meaning anything.

Need to buy some used servers or mini-PCs for the homelab, which I can't afford right now.

Stalwart for email. Always wanted to use Nextcloud but it's not reliable. OpenCloud is fine but lacking.

😑

#homelab #fascism #privacy #selfhosted #linux

Welche Dienste aus den eigenen Homelab verwende ich jeden Tag?

Alles ist selbstgehostet, läuft auf eigener Hardware und ist weltweit über WireGuard von allen meinen mobilen Geräten aus erreichbar. 🎉

https://strobelstefan.de/blog/2026/06/27/t%C3%A4gliche_begleiter_aus_dem_eigenen_homelab.html

#homelab #audiobookshelf #jellyfin #wallabag

There's something about the blinkenlights when zfs is resilvering a new drive, knowing that during that time a second drive could fail without loss of data or availability.
#homelab #zfs #selfhosting #NetBSD

I wiped my homelab and got it up and running again in 5 minutes. I used what I like to call the BAT stack which is Bootc, Ansible, and Terraform. Bootc for image based os builds, Ansible for configuration, and Terraform for VM provisioning on Proxmox. All being versioned controlled.

Check out more on my blog

https://keijilohier.com/blogs/recreating-my-homelab-with-infrastructure-as-code/

#homelab #bootc #ansible #terraform #proxmox #git
#iac

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Diagram showing user writing configuration files that get pushed to git. From there it gets pushed to ansible opentofu and a container registry to be used together to provision a server

I wish i could connect 2 proxmox servers without all the bullshit of clustering

#proxmox #pve #homelab #server #selfhosting

Today's Jack[1]:

* Oh, cool, at work we stack the DB sizes, I must do the same at home!
* No data? This was working yesterday!

Narrator: No, it wasn't.

* My Ansible is not working on this machine (but I ignore this one).
* Prometheus is properly configured.
* The exporter is running, but yes, no data, scrape not successful (and no alert!)
* The exporter is trying to auth with user `prometheus`!

2 B Continued...

[1] All my jaks are called Jack. Most are bald by now.

#HomeLab

Post Originaly from https://bsky.app/profile/fjox.win/post/3mofs2frbvs2v at 2026 06 16

my server had been down for like 5 days now. Now im stuck on this stupid place and don't even have acces to my nas. Then I found out I spend the last day and a half copying the wrong drive with ddrescue. Im soo done with this shit. I have decade old hard drives but ask a ssd to do more then 3 years hell no. I want a server that could run forever if electricity is provided. Ssds make it impossible. 3 months of 15 vms that probably didn't even do 500gb per day in total killed a drive that supposed to have a rw capacity of 2400 tb. Also I hate bluesky with its stupid twitter like post limit of 500. My mastodon had a limit of 65536. You could write a small book with that. And now that I have to copy shit with ddrescue again but instead of getting the same or better performance since its a ssd copying to a USB harddrive compared to a USB harddrive to the same USB harddrive its 30 times slower at peak. And that USB harddrive is 1tb bigger. now some might say just use the last backup. Well to even acces ir i need a vm on that ssd because nobody plans that ssd especially one from a reputable brand like samsung dies after 4 months of use. Even if mine was rather extreme compared to the usual use of one of them. it's ridiculousthat only 50 bad sectors and a passed smart test causes all the data to be inaccessible. Also the expectationthat I have backups that can survivea nuke is unrealistic. If i had the money i wouldn't use decade old hardware. Now you might say just play video games on your gaming pc. Well i don't have one, all my desktops are on my server and the only other computer that could game properly is copying the drive. I pirated gamesI alreadyown on a laptop for just to play some shitty DM for a dozen mins. This thread is probablybecoming longer then any serious post I made on the fediverse. Anyways now that i dont have a ssd for vms ig i gotta use a dozen decade old hard drives from the discard pile of a graphics design studio since im broke and you cant run multiple windows on a single harddrive cause that shit fucking lagggs. Im so done with this shit, i can even torture myself by editing long overdue videos and ive watched so many video essays that I can't watch anymore. I might just start looking on ebay for like epyc Rome shit or something. HAHA I GOT IT TO COPY AT 135MB/s. So now it's done at 0000... great. STILL BETTER THEN 10 DAYS HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHS OR THE PREVIOUS DAY AND THEN SOME ONTOP JAHAHHAHAHSHSHDHDHHDJDJFHDJDJDJDHHFJDJDJDHDJJFHDHDHFHNFJFNJDJFKFJFJDJDHFH it wasn't done, ddrescuetime calc sucks ass like it's not gonna be like 12 hours instead of 8... all the copying was fine no errors ddrescue didn't see any faulty sectors and yet all my data is shot. I can't boot truenas nor can I extract the config of it.

#thread #server #ssd #samsung #homelab #storage #proxmox #hypervisor #vdi #nvidia #fediverse #vgpu #serverrack #computers #computer #rant #hdd #hp #bsky #bluesky #twitter #externalhdd #usb #linux #ddrescue #datarecovery #data #nas #pc #thinclient #gaming #games #bsky #repost #bskyrepost

My first #HomeLab was a kitchen rack with Home Assistant Blue, an old NUC, and an external HDD.

Friday is update time for my homelab and public servers. Because, should something fail, I have the weekend to fix it. But, as always, nothing failed. All 9 RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) servers got their `dnf update`, followed by a `reboot`. This time the security updates included important nginx fixes, moderate coreutils stuff. Also a emu-kvm bugfix. All is good, machines and services are up and running again. 20 minutes of well invested time. Coffee next :)

#SysAdminLife #Homelab @homelab

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Advisories 3 There are 3 new advisories affecting your systems: Security advisories Synopsis RHSA-2026:2891 Moderate: coreutils security update RHSA-2026:29874 Important: nginx security update Bugfix advisories Synopsis RHBA-2026:28656 gemu-kvm bug fix and enhancement update

The #homelab in my basement now has a fan that gets the hot air out of the rack. That helps.

How is your stuff dealing with the heat wave?

@homelab

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diagram showing the temperature in the homelab. the temperature was at > 30 degrees and fell to < 25 in the early afternoon.

Wer ein Homelab betreibt kennt das: Proxmox, Docker, ein Raspberry Pi, ein VPS — und für alles einen anderen Befehl in einem anderen Fenster.

Ich hab das mit einem kleinen Python-CLI gelöst: `dsn update homelab`, `dsn status`, `dsn restart claire`. Alles an einem Ort.

Blogpost dazu ist online:
→ https://m1ch4.net/blog/dsn-cli/

#homelab #cli #python #selfhosted #proxmox #linux

For those of you with a homelab, hot many have actually calculated that your TCO is per month? I'm still not done with mine, and it's higher than I'd hoped. I'm currently using about a 5 year service life estimate on anything unknown or drives personally, but if the insanity lasts, I may have to hope for closer to 10 year. #homelab

I upgraded Grafana from v12 to v13 and the new unified storage migration for dashboards/folders was a pain in the ass to debug.

If you run Grafana with a hardened securityContext like `readOnlyRootFilesystem: true`, it can fail because backend plugins need writable temp space.

Fix: mount an emptyDir on /tmp.

But I'm not a big fan of that.

#homelab @homelab

start ↑

When power is restored while servers are down, but the UPS is still discharging its last cells. Home Assistant will still be working by then, but I can't use #WOL to turn the servers back on because they are on different subnets.

And while writing this, I realised that one of the servers has two network interfaces and can be presented in both subnets for WOL purposes. Sounds like a plan.

#HomeLab

This is how my #HomeLab is powered. #EcoFlow River 3 for long power outages and #Eaton UPS between it and servers because EcoFlow's UPS capabilities are shitty. Eaton UPS also gives me the ability to change the HomeLab power source without interruptions.

I just tested graceful shutdown on my #HomeLab through #HomeAssistant and #Proxmox API. Worked very well, but I have an unresolved corner case.

more ⤵

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An EcoFlow River3 is standing on the floor near a shelf with an Eaton UPS.

If you are running infrastructure at home I'm interested in your setup (architecture, pictures, anything interesting). #homelab #infra #server

The PineVoice from PINE64 is a smart speaker running Home Assistant instead of relying on commercial cloud integrations. Designed as a budget-friendly open-source alternative to the Amazon Echo. Are local smart speakers ready to replace commercial voice assistants in your setup?

#selfhosted #homelab #smarthome

Meanwhile, ~24 hours left until #GlitchySocial #Mastodon media storage migration from #Hetzner object storage to a #Selfhosted #Garage cluster. I'm starting to get nervous.

#homelab #Selfhosting #selfhost

I decided to clean up my #homelab a bit. Removed three personal services I didn't use.

Also decided to stop #GlitchySocial #Matrix server. Because it brings very small benefit at the cost of complex maintenance.

#Mastodon instance is here to stay. This is the most user-friendly #SelfHosted service!

I also have the #Ntfy server now on a #Hetzner #VPS for convenient and reliable notifications.

Hermes Agent, c’est bien plus qu’un chatbot qui exécute des commandes.

Mémoire persistante, création automatique de skills, sous-agents, planification en langage naturel, intégration Matrix, Telegram, Ollama, OpenRouter… le tout en self-hosted.

J’ai documenté l’installation, l’architecture et les cas d’usage concrets pour monter un véritable agent personnel.

🔗 https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/hermes-agent-framework-self-hosted/

#SelfHosted #OpenSource #Homelab #LLM #AIAgents #Linux #DevOps

Thank you, @hughsie for all your work on #lvfs and fwupdmgr. Thank you, Lenovo, for supporting firmware and UEFI updates through this mechanism. And thank you, Red Hat, for making all of this readily usable. All my Lenovo Tiny PCs in my homelab are now up2date and can continue to SecureBoot for years to come :)

#Homelab #SysAdmin @homelab

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Screenshot of one of my Lenovo Tiny PCs successfully updating the UEFI CA and dbx, making sure that SecureBoot keeps on working after the expiration of one of the Microsoft certificates. All done with the fwupdmgr command, no need to do some weird DOS based stuff with bootable USB sticks.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/116253214141420297

Ha! Funny! I can't hold myself. I said I needed to downsize, so I did remove one Raspberry Pi 4, however now I need to add a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to monitor a UPS in a location that is not reachable by any "regular" computer. So I'm back to the same place I was before, just a different device. 🤪
#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Proxmox @homelab

Run your own homelab boosted

Mauricio Teixeira ⚽🇺🇸🇧🇷🏆 » 🌐 2026-03-19
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

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

J’ai documenté mon setup d’assistant de code local avec Ollama, opencode et une RTX 3090.

Ça marche mieux que ce que j’attendais, mais pas magiquement non plus : 24 Go de VRAM restent une vraie limite, surtout dès qu’on pousse le contexte.

J’ai mis les chiffres, la config, les modèles testés, SearXNG via MCP, et les trucs que je referais différemment.

https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/opencode-local-ollama-rtx-3090/

#Ollama #opencode #LLM #homelab

brige avec nmcli pour mes VMs qemu, réussi du premier coup.
la doc Gentoo me fait avoir l'impression que je suis très compétent.

maintenant mes VMs ont un NIC sur le réseau libvirt en 192.168.122.x et une deuxième interface sur le DHCP de chez moi.

:Gentoo:
#gentoo #adminsys #homelab

After migrating Mastodon to my servers yesterday, today's project was moving https://terminaltilt.com off Dreamhost and onto self-hosted infrastructure. Tested a few static site generators and landed on Hugo. It is fast, simple, and does exactly what I need. Also spun up https://links.terminaltilt.com with Linkstack while I was at it.

Two domains, two services, fully self hosted.

Feeling accomplished. 💪

#SelfHosting #HomeLab #Hugo #Linkstack #FOSS

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A screenshot of the Terminal Tilt website https://terminaltilt.com It has a dark blue background with a dark blue bar across the top. The bar at the top says the title "Terminal Tilt" in a range of colors from blue to pink on the left. On the right, there are white text links that say Home, Blog, About, and Links. The middle of the screen says "Hi, I'm Bryan (He/Him)" in teal, blue, pink, and coral from left to right. Below in the middle, white text says: "FOSS Advocate • Privacy Enthusiast • Linux Tinkerer" and underthat more white text says: "Open Source, Privacy, and Linux" Under that are two buttons. The left button is ranging in color from teal to purple from left to right and says "Visit YouTube." The right button says is a teal colored outline button with dark blue background and teal text that says "Learn More." At the footer of the page is another darker blue bar that says: "Copyright © 2026 • Powered by nomad-tech(Hugo) • Made by Bryan (He/Him)"

💊 Erreur dans la Matrice ?
J'ai personnalisé toute ma gestion d'erreurs sur Nginx Proxy Manager pour que chaque "bug" ait son propre style :
🔹 Domaine inconnu ? Le système ne le trouve nulle part dans la simulation.
🔹 Service arrêté ? Il a existé, mais il a été retiré de la Matrice.
Quand la technique rencontre le style, même mes pages 404 ont de la gueule 😎
#SelfHosted #Nginx #Proxmox #Matrix #TechLife #BlablaLinux #Homelab

🛠️ Server-Upgrade erfolgreich abgeschlossen!

Mein Homeserver wurde soeben erfolgreich auf das brandneue #NixOS 26.05 (#Yarara) aktualisiert. 🚀

Technische Details:

🐧 Kernel: Linux 6.18 LTS

⚙️ Nix-Version: 2.31.5

🛡️ Systemd-Resolved: DNSStubListener deaktiviert, um Port 53 für AdGuard Home freizugeben

📦 7/7 Podman Container (AdGuard, OpenCloud, OnlyOffice, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Homepage) & Caddy laufen stabil nach Hot-Reload.

💾 Backup: BorgBackup um 20:00 Uhr erfolgreich durchgelaufen.

Alles läuft reibungslos im grünen Bereich!

#SelfHosting #NixOS #Homelab #linux

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Eine Webservergebotsbeschreibung auf einem Bildschirm. Es gibt mehrere Dienstdomänen, Porttypen und Updatestatus.

Hey @homelab, how do you keep track of updates to the stuff you self-host?

I personally put all the release feeds into my RSS feeder (miniflux) so that I have a nice "upgrade todo list" for update day.

#homelab #selfHosted

Hey @homelab #homelab peeps, anybody running a WAF at home? If so, what do you like and why?

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/116736789572154760

After yesterday's power outage I had something banging in my head about the survivability of my cluster.

So today I just decided to tear it down completely, format all the disks, rebuild, and recover from the backup.

And just how I predicted there were a lot of dark corners and hidden skeletons. The rebuild was not clean, there was a lot of ordering/dependency problems, but I was able to go through everything and create a comprehensive step-by-step "how to rebuild from scratch" document.

More lessons learned. All because some construction work is being done nearby and took down the power. 😄

#HomeLab @homelab

Run your own homelab boosted

Mauricio Teixeira ⚽🇺🇸🇧🇷🏆 » 🌐 2026-06-12
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/116654670244191792

Yesterday I had an unplanned power outage, again, but this time the power company notified me that it would be longer than my UPS(es) would hold, so I had to shutdown everything.

Bringing back my entire network and house automation was a pain, simply because I made a mistake and started stuff in the wrong order. But then I took the opportunity to shutdown everything again and document the proper sequence.

When I'm going to use that again? No idea. This is the first time I've had such a long power outage in 5 years, most of this equipment didn't even exist 3 years ago, and most likely everything will change again in a year or so.

But hey, I feel like I have accomplished something. 😄

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant @homelab

Run your own homelab boosted

Mauricio Teixeira ⚽🇺🇸🇧🇷🏆 » 🌐 2026-05-28
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

I had a power outage and everything in my network and home lab survived just fine, except for Home Assistant, because it was was unable to reestablish communications with stuff that powered off. I don't remember the last time I had to restart HA that wasn't because of an upgrade.

Also I found out that some automations that were supposed to run after the power is back, did not run properly.

🙄⚡🔌

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant @homelab

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/116654670244191792

Yesterday I had an unplanned power outage, again, but this time the power company notified me that it would be longer than my UPS(es) would hold, so I had to shutdown everything.

Bringing back my entire network and house automation was a pain, simply because I made a mistake and started stuff in the wrong order. But then I took the opportunity to shutdown everything again and document the proper sequence.

When I'm going to use that again? No idea. This is the first time I've had such a long power outage in 5 years, most of this equipment didn't even exist 3 years ago, and most likely everything will change again in a year or so.

But hey, I feel like I have accomplished something. 😄

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant @homelab

Run your own homelab boosted

Mauricio Teixeira ⚽🇺🇸🇧🇷🏆 » 🌐 2026-05-28
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

I had a power outage and everything in my network and home lab survived just fine, except for Home Assistant, because it was was unable to reestablish communications with stuff that powered off. I don't remember the last time I had to restart HA that wasn't because of an upgrade.

Also I found out that some automations that were supposed to run after the power is back, did not run properly.

🙄⚡🔌

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant @homelab

Another Pi bites the dust.

I woke up to a Raspberry Pi 2 down. I think it worked long enough, right? 😄

#HomeLab #RaspberryPi @homelab

So the federation is working on my #Wanderer instance, and you can actually follow me there from any #ActivityPub instance: @yehor@wanderer.glitchy.social

The issue was actually in my #Mastodon instance: https://mastodon.glitchy.social/@yehor/116713584141417614

#Fediverse #homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost

I have #Wanderer up and running again. This time it's not in #Docker. I installed it from source, but created a systemd service for each of the components. It just works and even imported my trails from #komoot. I made two of them available publicly: https://wanderer.glitchy.social/trails

The federation is not working properly. You can see my profile here: @yehor@wanderer.glitchy.social, but without trails. Also, you can try to follow me there, but the request goes somewhere into the void.

#homelab #selfhosted #GlitchySocial

🚀 Zeit fürs Wochenende & neue Projekte! Was habt ihr euch für die nächsten Tage vorgenommen? Bastelt ihr an eurem Homelab, probiert eine neue Distro aus oder schreibt ihr an eurem eigenen Tool? 🛠️

Egal ob Hardware-Bastelei, Software-Experimente oder exzessives Config-Foo – wir wollen wissen, was bei euch passiert! Erzählt es uns unter dem Hashtag #shipit 🚢

#RadioTux #Wochenende #OpenSource #Homelab #Linux #Coding #Maker

TIL git worktree

I didn't know about it until a coworker presented it to me yesterday, and today I tried it. Very interesting. Very clean. It would have solved a lot of problems I had in the past. Need to dig deeper into it.

#HomeLab #Git #DevOps #SRE #TIL @homelab

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

#gevibeopt

🐧 Hardware-Monitoring für einen Ubuntu-Fileserver — in einer Session gebaut! 🚀

~50 Interaktionen, ca. 30 Minuten. Ergebnis:

▫️ sensors.sh — CPU (Package + 6 Cores), NVMe, ACPI Temps
▫️ disks.sh — SMART für HDD (20TB Exos) + NVMe SSD
▫️ system.sh — CPU, RAM (DDR5-Slots!), GPU, BIOS, Mainboard via dmidecode
▫️ mergerfs.sh — Pool-Übersicht: Belegung, Inodes, Berechtigungen
▫️ updates.sh — apt update/upgrade + Neustart-Check
▫️ check-all.sh — Master-Script, läuft alles durch
▫️ mail.sh — Mail-Versand via SMTP
▫️ Custom opencode Skill „log-summary" — liest Log, fasst zusammen, sendet per Mail
▫️ Cron-Job: täglich 01:00 → Check → Zusammenfassung → Mail 📧

Jeden Morgen eine kompakte Übersicht im Postfach — alle Temperaturen einzeln, SMART-Status, Storage, Updates. Nur Alarme wenn was nicht stimmt.

Tech-Stack: Ubuntu 26.04, smartmontools, lm-sensors, dmidecode, mergerfs, opencode AI, Python smtplib, cron

#Linux #SysAdmin #Monitoring #HomeLab #mergerfs #SMART #OpenSource #Automation

thanks to: #qwen36plus

Test grandeur nature de mon script d'automatisation pour le PBS : ça réagit au quart de tour ! ⚡💤
Entre les démarrages à distance et les extinctions intelligentes, tout est parfaitement synchro. La satisfaction de voir ses outils tourner exactement comme prévu, ça n'a pas de prix !
#HomeLab #Proxmox #Automatisation #Linux

⚡ PBS physique : gère son énergie comme un chef !
J'ai publié un guide pour automatiser le cycle électrique de ton serveur Proxmox Backup Server. Fini les allumages manuels !
👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/automatisation-cycle-electrique-pbs-physique 🚀
#Proxmox #PBS #HomeLab #Automatisation #Linux

New post: bcachefs on RHEL 10.2, or how I lost an evening to a filesystem.

Four hours of patching kernel headers by hand while the build kept inventing new ways to fail. Hit setenforce 0 out of pure reflex (it was Secure Boot, not SELinux). Gave up, switched to Fedora, worked in two minutes.

I tried REALLY hard. The kernel was right.

https://blog.hofstede.it/bcachefs-on-rhel-102-the-kernel-that-said-no/

#Linux #bcachefs #RHEL #Fedora #homelab #kernel

UGREEN NAS: BENUTZERRECHTE VERTIEFEN: LESEN, SCHREIBEN, VERERBEN – TUTORIAL

https://gadgetchecks.de/ugreen-nas-benutzerrechte-vertiefen-lesen-schreiben-vererben-tutorial/

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#ugreennas #ugospro #nas #nasstorage #homeserver #datensicherheit #netzwerkspeicher #tutorial #selbsthosting #homelab #linux #server #itsecurity #datenverwaltung #freigaben #netzwerk #technik #smartstorage #admin #storage

I had a power outage and everything in my network and home lab survived just fine, except for Home Assistant, because it was was unable to reestablish communications with stuff that powered off. I don't remember the last time I had to restart HA that wasn't because of an upgrade.

Also I found out that some automations that were supposed to run after the power is back, did not run properly.

🙄⚡🔌

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant @homelab

My three nines are about to go away, 😋 Power went out earlier and I've got to leave so I'm not leaving the generator unattended.

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

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A screenshot of my UptimeRobot page showing several services at over 99.9% uptime for the past month. One of them is at 100%.

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A screenshot of my apcupsd monitor app showing the server is currently running on battery power and has 33 minutes remaining.

Oh, cool. Now I have Atlantis to run my Terraform in my home lab. It is probably overkill, but it was fun to implement it.

#HomeLab #Terraform @homelab

After 1,300 days (3 years 6 months give or take) running my own Mastodon server in my basement, the lesson is, you can run your own Mastodon server in your basement.

It basically just works. You learn how to do the maintenance and then it’s not so bad. No one has trouble finding you. Your posts can still go viral (but only if you’re cool, which I am not, but it has happened accidentally once as a PoC).

Federation works!

So yeah, continuing on in a boring fashion with my homegrown social media.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #SoloInstance #homelab #selfhosted

Proxmox VE 9.2 dispo, maintenant basé sur Debian 13.5.

https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-2

#Proxmox #Virtualization #Homelab #Linux

Le post-quantique, ce n’est pas juste un sujet de labo.

Côté infra, la vraie question c’est plutôt :
qu’est-ce qui, chez moi, doit rester confidentiel dans 10 ou 20 ans ?

Backups, VPN, SSH, certificats, archives longues durées… j’ai essayé de remettre ça à plat ici :

https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/post-quantum-readiness-guide-for-sysadmins/

#selfhosting #homelab #cybersecurite #sysadmin

Alerte nouveauté Proxmox 9.2 !
Le fameux Dynamic Load Balancer débarque pour migrer vos VM automatiquement à chaud selon la charge réelle du cluster. Fini le stress des nœuds saturés !

Comment ça marche ? Je vous résume tout ici 👇
🔗 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/proxmox-9-2-dynamic-load-balancer

#Proxmox #ProxmoxVE #Virtualization #Homelab

#Wanderer is a very nice project, but it is currently too raw to use. The last two releases just broke everything, and even a clean setup doesn't help. I'll follow the repository, but shut down my instance for now.

https://github.com/open-wanderer/wanderer

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #SelfHost #homelab #ActivityPub #hiking

oke, das ist geil
nachdem ich jetzt alles in das jeweilige subvolume der 16tb platte kopiert habe, habe ich jetzt beide 4tb blockdevices aus der windows VM entfernt und stattdessen die jeweiligen mountpoints per #virtiofs und #winfsp mit den selben laufwerkbuchstaben in windows eingebunden - as if nothing happend 😳
mit #linux kann man den pc einfach genau so nutzen wie man will und nicht wie irgend ne kack firma vorgibt ihn nutzen zu sollen 😎
#homelab

I was having some issues with picky destination servers who were rejecting emails sent via a relay. No matter how clean the records/setup were, emails got rejected.

So, I decided to configure exim4 to use satellite mode to send behind NAT without issue. Here's what I came up with using stock exim4 documentation and resources:

https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2026/05/19/emailbehindnat/

This is a clean stock setup for workstations behind NAT, VPSs that don't have outgoing smtp, etc.

#SelfHosting #Homelab #Linux #SysAdmin #Exim4

Ongoing selfhosted/homelab task:

1. Create admin user in authentik (with MFA, etc as always), this is not an authentik admin however.
2. Add admin user to services
3. Remove regular user from admin rolls
4. Modify ingress and traefik middleware if needed to service, to prohibit admin/sensitive/unused API endpoint access from external networks (all fun and games till wireguard eats shit)

@homelab@fedigroups.social #Homelab #Selfhosted

#btrfs einfach geilstes dateisystem wo gibt 🥰
- braucht keine partitionen
- ist selbstheilend (via raid 1)
- kann kompression
- snapshots
- die daten sind im raid auf allen platten direkt abrufbar; d.h. ich kann das raid auseinander nehmen und jede platte einzeln direkt mit allen daten darauf verwenden
#linux #homelab

Bon j'en avais marre de pas trouver d'outil simple pour inventorier mon réseau du coup -> https://git.raspot.in/olivier/stupid-simple-network-inventory

#homelab #docker

Webmin is hardened & clustered w/ three total nodes, ns1, ns2, and ns3 etc. I will eventually add clustered nodes on two other locations so records are still served when one cluster's host is down.

https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2025/12/29/authoritative-dns-w-bind-9/ feedback welcome.

Added larger tmp directory & source-IPd vhost so webmin won't lock. Obv, make sure you use static, dedicated, & fully hardened external IPs for permitted list.

#selfhosted #homelab #sysadmin #linux #dns #webmin #opensource #freesoftware #networking

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Been a while since I blogged, so it's time for the latest installment in "Edd massively over-complicates things with SSH certificates" This time, a post about how I got rid of the need to create a new sub account on my #Hetzner Storage Box every time I wanted to create a new VM and back it up with #Borg. Definitely easier ways to have achieved it, but it shows of the versatility of ssh certificates, and #StepCA that's powering them in my home lab.

https://i.am.eddmil.es/posts/sshcertsborg/

#Borgmatic #Homelab #ssh

Moving houses sooon.
Thinking to temporarily move all/most of my #homelab to #Hetzner for a while.

Updated my Red Hat Satellite to Version 6.19 and patched all my home-lab RHEL VMs to the latest state via Ansible.

Fixed also the Copy.Fail and Dirty Frag CVE's, so I can safely remove the mitigations again.

#linux #redhat #copyfail #dirtyfrag #devops #homelab #ansible

Wochenend-Projekt: **Zerobyte** 💾 #shipit

Ein modernes Backup-Frontend für Restic. Unterstützt S3, SMB, NFS & rclone. Macht Backups endlich wieder schön & einfach! 🚀

Link: https://github.com/nicotsx/zerobyte

#Backup #SelfHosted #Restic #Zerobyte #OpenSource #Homelab #Linux #RadioTux

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

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

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

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

#selfhosting #homelab

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

#selfhosting #homelab

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

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

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

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

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

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

#monitoring #SRE #HomeLab

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@homelab

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

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

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

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

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

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

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

#gitea #selfhost #git #homelab

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

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

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

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

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

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

#homelab #selfhosting

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

#selfhosting #homelab

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

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

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

#selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #nas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#HomeLab #NetAlertX @homelab

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

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

#RetroComputing #SunMicrosystems #HomeLab

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Edit: no more boosting, answer in toot below.

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

#HomeLab

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

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

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

#homelab #selfhosting #openvpn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

le champ des possibles est infini (ou presque)

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

#3GoodThings #3PetitsBonheur #sysadmin

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

#homelab #selfhosting

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

#homelab #selfhosting

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

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

Je garde l’hyperviseur pour le moment.

#HomeLab

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

#DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysRaleigh #HomeLab @homelab

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

Pangolin 1.18 est sorti.

Grosse évolution côté plateforme :

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

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

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

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

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

Really like the simple IOS widget.

@homelab
#Homelab

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

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

#HomeLab

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

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

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

#HomeLab @homelab

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

#HomeAssistant #HomeLab

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

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

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

#Linux #homelab #Kubernetes #selfhosting

Il mio approccio a GNU/Linux.

https://dajelinux.it/archivio/approccio-linux

#gnu #linux #unolinux #gnulinuxitalia #unix #opensource #foss #floss #homelab

Today's tech screw up:

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

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

You live and learn!

#sysadmin #homelab

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

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

#homelab #sysadmin

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

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

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

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

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

Run your own homelab boosted

Mauricio Teixeira ⚽🇺🇸🇧🇷🏆 » 🌐 2026-04-19
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

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

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

#HomeLab #3DPrinting @homelab @3dprinting

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

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #VictoriaMetrics #Telegraf @homelab

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#kubernetes #homelab #selfhosted #proxmox

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

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

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

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

However, you can do a targeted destroy:

tofu plan -destroy -target proxmox_virtual_environment_vm.k8s_nodes

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

tofu plan -destroy -target talos_machine_secrets.this

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

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

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

First: Talos "inlineManifests" behavior.

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

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

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

So, are we there yet?

Not quite!

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

No changes. Your infrastructure matches the configuration.

So, what is going on? 🤔

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

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

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

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

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

#kubernetes #talos #proxmox #homelab #selfhosted

J’ai publié une nouvelle veille open source sur Cryptolab

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- ${TAILNET_IP}:9100:9100

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

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

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

- 127.0.0.1:9100:9100

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

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

#homelab #selfhosted

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

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

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

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

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

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

#HomeLab #3DPrinting @homelab @3dprinting

Fresh Debian 13 (Trixie) install – was ich immer als erstes mache:

→ Root deaktivieren
→ SSH-Key only (ed25519)
→ UFW mit nur den nötigen Ports
→ Docker ready

Dokumentation für mich, vielleicht nützlich für andere.

https://m1ch4.net/blog/debian13-grundsetup/

#Debian #Linux #Docker #Selfhosting #Homelab

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#homelab #tls #openvpn #openstack #life

Having a "reflective" afternoon.

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

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

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

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

I'm starting to scratch the surface on

- CachyOS

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

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

- Mint
- Zorin

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

- Arch
- Gentoo

Excellent, but the time intensity ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm all about community projects nowadays.

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

Deep thoughts.

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

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

@homelab

This is a customer appreciation post. Not sponsored.

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

#HomeLab @homelab

https://store.untrustedsource.com/

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

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

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #ZFS #Longhorn @homelab

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

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Longhorn @homelab

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

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

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

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

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

Sorry about that.

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Lenovo #blog @homelab

Mauricio Teixeira ⚽🇺🇸🇧🇷🏆 » 🌐 2025-12-26 / 2025-12-26
@badnetmask@hachyderm.io

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

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

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

New #blog on #BurgeonLab ✍️

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah, I know. Whatevs.

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

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

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

So, what's this post about?

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

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

I have what feels like a silly @homelab problem.

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

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

#homelab #selfhosted

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

Also, any #HomeLab'ers?

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

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

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

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

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

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab

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

#homelab #selfhosting #tls #ssl #stepca

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

#homelab #selfhosting #debian #upgrade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Achievement unlocked 🔓

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

#homelab #selfhosting #stepca #tls #certbot

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

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

#homelab #selfhosting #ansible #docker #podman

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

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

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

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

Something similar to Trello is also acceptable.

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

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #Jira #Kanban @homelab

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you miss anything, let us know!

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

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

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

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

#homelab #selfhosting #unbound #ansible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#homelab #selfhosting #navidrome

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

Ok, well, so much for shrinking my #homelab. Turns out the fans in my #NAS used about 10W... which is insane for that little thing. Getting some new quiet Noctua fans soon.
Besides, the mini-PC is not the best match as I have found.
Oh well, 10W saved currently and the i7 system is back on track.
Can I call that a win? 😂

#homelab stories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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3 serveurs Lenovo Thinkcentre empilés pour faire un homelab.

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

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

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

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

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

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

#HomeLab

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

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

Hola people of the Fediverse

I again ask for some recommendations!

Send me your favorite Blogs or your own Blogs

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

Any kind:

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

i am really curious :3

Boosts are welcome so this search travels wide and far

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

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

Building a simple NAS doesn’t require expensive hardware.

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

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

#FreeBSD #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #NAS #HomeLab

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

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

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

#FreeBSD #RaspberryPi #NAS #OpenSource #HomeLab

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

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

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

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

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

#zfs #nas #homelab

#Linux #LinuxServer #Homeserver #Homelab

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

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

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

#homelab #sysadmin

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

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

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

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

How cool is that!

#NAS #HomeLab #HomeServer #LinuxServer

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

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

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

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

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

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

UGH.

Things I feel compelled to keep:

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

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

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

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

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

#homelab @homelab #selfhosted

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

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

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

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

Server slow and low on RAM:

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

Server rebooted and happy:

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

... guess I have some investigation to do.

#homelab

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

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

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

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PegaProx with ProxSnap integration for Proxmox VE Clusters

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

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

Affaire à suivre... 😏

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

is there a smart way to do ssh luks unlocking over wireguard in the initrd? the issue is that the private wireguard key must be stored unencrypted in the initrd, so that's really not a nice thing. otoh the private ssh key is already stored there (it's a separate one only used for this and not the ssh key that is used for openssh when the machine is up).

boosts welcome! @homelab #homelab

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

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

#gitea #selfhosted #sysadmin #homelab #docker

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

#prometheus #homelab #selfhosting

Current Projects/Ideas:

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

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

Trying some traffic shaping on my PFSense box today.

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

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

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

#PFsense #qos #sysadmin #homelab

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

#Selfhost #Homelab @homelab #Fedora #RaspberryPi

Alt...

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

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

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

#selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #irc

https://newreleases.io
ist echt ein klasse Werkzeug, um über Updates informiert zu werden.
Es unterstützt sehr viele Quellen und kann auf diversen Kanälen informieren.
Leider kann man das nicht selbst hosten. Sonst wär's wirklich perfekt.

#homelab #linux #debian #selfhost #it #empfehlung

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

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

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

Three of my mini-PC power supplies have died over the last 2–3 months.

That’s half my #K8S cluster unavailable right now. 😓

All three nodes are old Optiplex 3010s, and their #QuickSync support isn’t great anyway. Right now #Plex / #Jellyfin is pinned to a single node with the “newest” CPU for transcoding.

Debating whether to replace the PSUs or just upgrade the dead nodes to newer mini-PCs.

#homelab #kubernetes #k8s

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

#HomeLab @homelab

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

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

#backup #homelab #linux

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

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

#selfhosted @homelab

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

I can break the home network without getting in trouble

#Networking #HomeLab

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

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

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

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

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

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

#homelab #selfhosted #mariadb #mysql

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

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