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John-Mark Gurney<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@demonshreder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>demonshreder</span></a></span></p><p>If you haven't heard, use ecc memory to prevent wrong data from being written, causing a read to later not validate correctly because the checksum does not match.</p><p><a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/ZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZFS</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/raid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raid</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/100daysofhomelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100daysofhomelab</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a></p>
Kamalavelan<p>Yay finally got <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/ZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZFS</span></a> running in a mirror <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/raid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raid</span></a> configuration. +1 for data redudancy and hopefully zero data corruption. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/100daysofhomelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100daysofhomelab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[013/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a></p><p>Today I managed to get <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/immich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immich</span></a> up and running. Boy, is this ever an obvious UI clone of the product that shall not be named, but im here for it! I am thankful to have some ownership of my photos again. </p><p>Now about that NAS that I *dont* need.... </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[012/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>I spent a long time trying to get <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> logs in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Grafana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grafana</span></a> Loki today using the native connector. Nothing seems to be working quite right. </p><p>I want to love the Grafana stack, but it seems to be at odds with me at every turn. Does anyone have suggestions for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> full observability platforms? I'd ideally want metrics, logs, and traces with alerting/notifications as a nice to have. </p><p>I may go back to Signoz if I can't get this logging to work.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[011/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>Today I learned a little bit about <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NGINX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NGINX</span></a> location routing. I wanted to deploy an application under a root location but not pass the root location along to the downstream app. </p><p>Ex: `<a href="http://example.com/apps/app1/home`" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">example.com/apps/app1/home`</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ==&gt; `http://10.0.0.1:80/home`</p><p>Turns out I needed a combination of things: <br>`location /apps/app1/ { proxy_pass http://10.0.0.1:80/}`<br>and <br>`location ^~ / { proxy_pass http://10.0.0.1:80}`</p><p>This link helped: </p><p><a href="https://serverfault.com/a/562850" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">serverfault.com/a/562850</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>[1/2]</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[010/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>Tonight was a simple hardware upgrade. Now my two main <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Proxmox</span></a> nodes are running matching hardware: i7-6700T (4c/8t) with 16GB DDR4. </p><p>The little Optiplex "micro" PCs from Dell really are the sweet spot for Homelabs. <br>Small, (relatively) low power, easy to work on (upgrade took 15min tonight including a reboot), and pretty cheap these days (especially when you consider the price of Raspberry Pis now). </p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_nkw=dell+optiplex+micro+i7&amp;_sacat=0&amp;rt=nc&amp;Form%2520Factor=Micro%2520Form%2520Factor%2520%2528MFF%2529&amp;_dcat=179" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&amp;</span><span class="invisible">_nkw=dell+optiplex+micro+i7&amp;_sacat=0&amp;rt=nc&amp;Form%2520Factor=Micro%2520Form%2520Factor%2520%2528MFF%2529&amp;_dcat=179</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[009/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>I feel like this should have been obvious, but since I'm already using <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Ansible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ansible</span></a> to configure my infrastructure applications, why not also use it to deploy my "fun" applications as well on each new commit. </p><p>Found this article that will guide my initial configuration. </p><p><a href="https://spacelift.io/blog/github-actions-ansible" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spacelift.io/blog/github-actio</span><span class="invisible">ns-ansible</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[007/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>Spent some time today thinking about how I want to do dev / stage deploys of containerized applications on the lab. No solid conclusions yet. </p><p>[008/100] </p><p>Came across the `-H` flag of docker-compose. This seems compelling. But, now I need to figure out how I want to dish out and store SSH keys to my runner. I'll probably do some sort of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Ansible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ansible</span></a> solution with Gitea secure variables but I'm leaving the door open.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>docker</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CICD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CICD</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Devops</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[006/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>Today, I was able to get my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Gitea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gitea</span></a> runner working and publishing containers to my self-hosted registry 🥳 ... only to realize that Gitea has a built-in container registry that I could have used instead. 🤦‍♂️</p><p>Does anyone have a good reason for running a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> independent registry outside of learning or the need for ultimate control?</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[005/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>Spent most of yesterday trying to troubleshoot why my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Gitea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gitea</span></a> runner isn't working. I'm getting `getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND server` when on the `actions/checkout@v4` step. </p><p>It seems like there might be some connectivity issues between the runner and the server even though they are defined in the same docker-compose stack and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>docker</span></a> network. </p><p>Hopefully today I can make some progress on this and get a full Gitea deployment working. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[004/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>I didn't have much time for deep work today so I decided to update some network/service diagrams. It's still not perfect but at least it's written down. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>[002/100] <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysofHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysofHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>✅Upgraded one <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Proxmox</span></a> node from 7.4 to 8.2. One left to go but that's PROD so I'm taking things slowly. </p><p>🟡I also tried to install a global Gitea runner. But, after it succeeded I thought all of my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNS</span></a> broke (NS_Unknown errors). After re-running my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Ansible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ansible</span></a> scripts with no success, I finally realized I'd moved rooms and disconnected from my wireless network that's isolated for homelab work. 🤦</p><p>The `dig &lt;domain.name&gt;` command was what tipped me off. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a></p>
:python_logo: Code || Coffee ☕<p>I'm way late to the party but I think I'm going to try <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/100DaysOfHomelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysOfHomelab</span></a>. I've been doing it sporadically but with increasing consistency so why not make it a habit? </p><p>[1/100] Today I installed <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Gitea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gitea</span></a> on a test VM. So far, it seems much less resource intensive than GitLab. All I really need is some version control and action runners so I think I'm going to like it a lot! </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a></p>
vkc via PeerTube<p>Is the terminal still worth learning?</p><p><a href="https://tinkerbetter.tube/videos/watch/63bb7e54-e4bf-4428-9cdc-6f8941546789" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tinkerbetter.tube/videos/watch</span><span class="invisible">/63bb7e54-e4bf-4428-9cdc-6f8941546789</span></a></p>
TechnoTim<p>I did <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/100DaysOfHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysOfHomeLab</span></a> for a year, here's what I learned</p><p><a href="https://docs.technotim.live/posts/100-days-of-homelab-1-year-later/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.technotim.live/posts/100-</span><span class="invisible">days-of-homelab-1-year-later/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a></p>
Nick Kuhn<p>Day 54 of <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/100DaysOfHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysOfHomeLab</span></a></p><p>Taking my blog tehkuhnz.io out of stealth mode 😎</p><p>Here's a recap of my <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> work thus far:<br><a href="https://tehkuhnz.io/?p=414" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tehkuhnz.io/?p=414</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/VMware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VMware</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/vExpert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vExpert</span></a></p>
Nick Kuhn<p>Day 51 of <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/100DaysOfHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysOfHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>✅all the parts are in to build out esxi07 😎</p><p>✅this specific HP z440 build is starting to be muscle memory at this point 😅</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/VMware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VMware</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/vExpert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vExpert</span></a></p>
Nick Kuhn<p>Day 50 of <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/100DaysOfHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysOfHomeLab</span></a> </p><p>✅ updated all hosts to <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/vSphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vSphere</span></a> 8.0 U1</p><p>✅ took the opportunity to install a memory fan</p><p>✅ updated all <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/VMwarevSan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VMwarevSan</span></a> <br> disks to latest format </p><p>✅vLCM upgrade experience is very smooth 😎</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/VMware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VMware</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/vExpert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vExpert</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a></p>
Jeff Geerling<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/100DaysOfHomelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysOfHomelab</span></a> rebuilt two servers (just wiped, dropped CentOS 7, and installed Rocky Linux 9, then re-ran Ansible playbook).</p><p>Cleaned out the last Drupal 7 site I was running (I helped that site migrate to Wix).</p><p>Going to maybe mothball a Drupal 8 site I don't want to upgrade (convert to static HTML).</p>
TechnoTim<p>Just ran the last power cable to my PDU!</p><p>Day 213 <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/100DaysOfHomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysOfHomeLab</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pdu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdu</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/unifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unifi</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ubiquiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ubiquiti</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ubnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ubnt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/homeserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homeserver</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ups</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/serverrack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serverrack</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>network</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>networking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/smartups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smartups</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/powermanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powermanagement</span></a></p>