homelab OMV5 + Docker + NGINX With OMV5 it seems some plugins have been depricated in favor of hosting them on a local Docker instance. Docker and Portainer are easily installed on OMV using omv-extras.org. The next step is to configure a reverse proxy so we can get rid of ports in the address and
docker Docker Swarm + MACVLAN A little while ago I created an Ansible playbook that deploys Pi-hole to a docker swarm in order to create a redundant self-hosted ad blocking DNS service. It's been working great but two issues have come up as a result of running the service in a swarm. Clients were not
homelab Chassis migration In an earlier post I mentioned my homelab server, a 1U Supermicro server I picked up for a song on OfferUp. I love it! It came with an X10 motherboard sporting dual Xeon E5-2620 v4 CPUs!! The 4x hot swap bays were immediately populated so with the "need" to expand
homelab Supermicro IPMI Telegraf plugin As your homelab grows, you need to keep an eye things. Creating dashboards to visualize your homelab environment becomes essential. In this post I'll give a brief overview of the TICK and TIG stacks and talk about a plugin I developed for Telegraf that's used to monitor IPMI sensor data
homelab SnapRAID shuffle Death, taxes, and hard drive failure. Hang around long enough and you're going to experience all three, it's just a fact of life. To help mitigate the risk of that last one we can use SnapRAID, a free open-source software (FOSS) solution used to create backups of your disk arrays.
