Well, after a lot of fiddling, the possibility of a busted #RaspberryPi and my #orchestration software deciding to be an absolute hole, I’ve finally got my #homelab back to a workable state…
Still a bit of work to do but at least I have access to my daily driver services again!
Getting Nextcloud working on TrueNAS Scale was a bit of work and probably deserves a blog post but I'm busy poking it to see if anything breaks first!
It took a couple of weeks learning how the the values yaml files for rook ceph are supposed to be written. But I have finally managed to get a rook ceph storage cluster configured on a Talos kubernetes cluster!
I can do this stuff!
Next step is getting it to work with an ArgoCD CI/CD pipeline.
New OpenSSL 3.5 is out, it will be the new LTS replacing 3.0. It supports PQE and QUIC (At last!) but I haven’t tested those features yet.
Next I run #syncthing on my laptop, and on my #homelab #intelN100 #n100 mini pc / server that runs in the cupboard and is very #lowpower I run #proxmox and this also has a #samba share which allows any other network devices to see the media.
With syncthing running, I always have two copies of the media, but for backup I was using #rclone to send an encrypted copy to #googledrive - which I am in the process of switching over to #nextcloud running on #hetzner
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This weeks stupidity… I made a mini 5u HomeLab for my HomeAssistant and PiHole boxes that sit inside an Ikea storage crate.
Includes a Pi5 16GB, Pi 3b+, Pi Zero W2 and a Pimoroni Badger for stats.
#ikea #ikeahack #homelab #minilab #homeassistant #pihole #network #3dprinting #3dprinted #raspberrypi #pimoroni #diy #maker @geerlingguy
Cositas en mi homelab:
- HomeAssitant (automatización del hogar)
- Jellyfin (media player)
- Nextcloud (fotos, calendario, contactos, RSS, documentos, Kanban, ...)
- Searxng (buscador agregador de otros)
- LibreTranslate (traductor LLM local)
- Forgejo (gestor de repositorios)
- Motion (detector de movimiento para cámaras IP)
- Prosody y Synapse (XMPP para video llamadas, chat, etc.)
- Y más cositas para gestionar lo anterior (Gatus, Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, Graphite, Puppet, ...)
#HomeLab
Okay dumb idea. Since colocation in Germany is expensive and I live moderately close to the Netherlands.
Is the situation any better over there? #homelab
After a re-setup of my #homelab server with #truenas I finally have #nextcloud up and running again.
In the past I used Nextcloud Photos to backup my phone but now moved to #immich. Now finally can also move all my #googlephotos to my private cloud 
Just triggered the export of the photos ;-)
Again one small stepp away from google and co!
Sipeed @SipeedIO
#NanoCluster: The tiny but mighty cluster for everyone! #homelab #K8S
Smaller than a cola, fits 7 SOMs (LM3H/M4N/CM4/5 + NVMe)
#RISCV GbE Switch(web UI+openSDK)UART&PWR control65W PD + 60W PoE60mm fan keeps 7xCM5 cool !
From just $45! 
http://sipeed.com/nanocluster
Hey folks, my cranky old #Synology #NAS is getting full and I'm thinking about upgrades. I don't think I want to buy another commercial NAS and I have an AM5 motherboard doing literally nothing. Sny opinions on #unraid vs #truenas ? (I mostly use for #plex streaming and local backups) but may consider moving my #HomeAssistant install to the box too in the future). #homelab
Okay, authentik is up! Took a while, I was fighting against flux and the helm release because it deployed with the wrong StorageClass (I forgot to have that configuration ready before release.) Helm wasn't able to modify the PVC because they're immutable, updating the release has to wait for the initial release to succeed (which it won't) or timeout and flux is quiet on the reasons for all of this unless you know where to look 
lots of learning was had though!
Anyway, admin and personal user accounts created, MFA enabled. Got my first application integrated too! (actual budget)
What next? The world is my oyster... Probably gitea or semaphore. I'm hesitant to integrate services like jellyfin before I have more users onboarded and this gives me an opportunity to experiment with other edge cases like other providers and service accounts and such
Gary has published a new video on his 5 top tips for home labbers, focusing on pfSense/opnsense. Like always, good tips for those of us who are using these filters in their network. Thanks @garyhtech !
NEW VIDEO - 5 Top Tips for Home Labbers!
#homelab #freebsd #linux #unix #opensource #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/HR9SnkrbVnI?si=0xXve0aEM4RDxtK4 via @YouTube
I wrote something for myself, and figured it might be useful for others: a small service that automatically discovers LXCs and VMs in a Proxmox cluster and acts as a DNS server pointing to the IP(s) for them. It's called, somewhat unimaginatively... proxmox-service-discovery:
https://github.com/andrew-d/proxmox-service-discovery
As a short example: if you have a Proxmox cluster running lxc1, lxc2, and vm3, and you run proxmox-service-discovery with the "--dns-zone=example.com" option, then it will run a DNS server that answers queries for lxc1.example.com with all the IP addresses for lxc1, and so on for lxc2 and vm3.
It's pretty basic but well-tested, and seems to work well for my use-case. Feedback appreciated, along with bug reports, PRs, and so on!
Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers.
—Mathieu Aumont
｢ TLDR : the main problem is SYSTEMD, the secondary problem is the stacking of abstraction layers docker / kubersomething most of the time used of unknown reasons “just because it's modern” ｣
Ever wanted to screw around with clusters of low powered devices?
You basically can’t get any cheaper than those massive lots of Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients on Ebay.
They can be found for as low as ~$15 per device. They should be faster than a Pi Zero and come with built in Ethernet.
You might need to learn how to build custom power supply stuff because they typically they don’t come with them (be careful, some are 5v and some are 12v), but that’s really all just extra fun, isn’t it? 
Just waiting on a patch panel and some more #Ethernet cables and then my homelab can be restarted!
