TL;DR In my opinion, these self-hosted, open-source applications are the best of what open-source can be. Home Assistant Jellyfin Pi-hole Nextcloud WordPress Introduction My hot water tank recently leaked, but (luckily for me) there was a floor drain right next to it. The next day (after having the tank fixed), I purchased a water leak sensor, added it to Home Assistant in under 2 minutes, and was able to get push notifications of future detected leaks....

Update: 2022-04-15 I typically average around 100 unique visitors to this site per day. Below is a screenshot from my Plausible analytics setup showing the traffic spike up to almost 14k unique visitors from HackerNews (and other sources). Update: 2022-04-12 I posted this article to that orange site and it blew up more than I expected. I reached #3 of the front page (screenshot below) and am officially on the top 10 list for 2022-04-11....

Introduction I’ve been trying to get my homelab applications moved from running on VM/LXC to Docker. There’s nothing wrong with VMs or LXC containers, but I’m trying to manage fewer servers and “snowflakes” (even though I do my installs with Ansible). The application that started my homelab journey was DokuWiki. It’s a self-hosted wiki, written in PHP, that requires no database. You write in a Markdown-like syntax (not Markdown) and your data is stored in plain TXT files on the filesystem....

Hey! Listen! This post is part of a series on my journey into K3s. Check them all out! Date URL Part 2022-03-29 Kubernetes GUIs Exploring Kubernetes GUIs 2022-03-11 K3s single-node cluster for noobs Deploying K3s Introduction In my last post, I setup a K3s single-node cluster and an example application. While everything was done through the command-line, as a noob, it’s nice to have a graphical user interface (GUI) of some kind....

Hey! Listen! This post is part of a series on my journey into K3s. Check them all out! Date URL Part 2022-03-29 Kubernetes GUIs Exploring Kubernetes GUIs 2022-03-11 K3s single-node cluster for noobs Deploying K3s Introduction I’m starting a new job in the next few days that will require me to learn Kubernetes (often stylized as k8s). This post is not about what k8s is or why you want it (you can read about that here)....

Hey! Listen! This post is part of a series on deploying Hugo. Check them all out! Date URL Part 2022-02-08 Deploying Hugo with Netlify Deploying on Netlify 2021-10-13 Deploying Hugo with CloudFront and S3 Deploying on CloudFront and S3 2021-09-21 Deploying Hugo with AWS Amplify Deploying on Amplify Introduction In my last post, I was testing the deployment of Hugo with CloudFront and S3. My main complaints came from the complicated Terraform setup and the lack of easy redirects....

Hey! Listen! This post is part of a series on deploying Hugo. Check them all out! Date URL Part 2022-02-08 Deploying Hugo with Netlify Deploying on Netlify 2021-10-13 Deploying Hugo with CloudFront and S3 Deploying on CloudFront and S3 2021-09-21 Deploying Hugo with AWS Amplify Deploying on Amplify Introduction In my last post, I was testing the deployment of Hugo with AWS Amplify. My only complaint was that Amplify doesn’t support IPv6....

Hey! Listen! This post is part of a series on deploying Hugo. Check them all out! Date URL Part 2022-02-08 Deploying Hugo with Netlify Deploying on Netlify 2021-10-13 Deploying Hugo with CloudFront and S3 Deploying on CloudFront and S3 2021-09-21 Deploying Hugo with AWS Amplify Deploying on Amplify Introduction Since I migrated from WordPress to Hugo, I’ve dropped the need to run PHP and MySQL on my server. This means my server is now only running Nginx, serving up static HTML/CSS/JS files....

Introduction If you’ve ever used a Raspberry Pi, you’ve probably used the raspi-config configuration tool. This text-based user interface (TUI) is great for changing 99% of basic settings on the Raspberry Pi, such as the hostname, WiFi country, locale, memory split, etc… However, if you’re managing a fleet of Raspberry Pi devices, or just really like configuration management tools, you’re probably looking for a way to automate setting these items from the command line....

Introduction My hypervisor since 2017 has been an Intel NUC7i3BNH. It has a 2c/4t 15W laptop CPU (Core i3-7100U), with 2x 16GB Crucial DDR4, and a 512GB Samsung 860 Pro. While it served me well over these years, I’ve outgrown the CPU and cooling solution. The search for a new hypervisor Size, noise, and power As outlined in my homelab mini-rack post, my homelab devices (router, switch, AP, NAS, and hypervisor) all sit on the bottom shelf of the entertainment center in my living room....