Sometimes I don't know if GatewayAPI is overkill for my home lab use, or if I'm just doing it wrong. The fact is that cert-manager acme http01 validation with http to https redirect is driving me crazy, and I can't figure out an easy way out.

Right now my gut is telling me to tear everything down and start over, because I feel like I did something wrong right at the initial deployment.

Yes, this post is vague on purpose, as I'm not ready to share my shame, I just need to vent. But if you do have a "this is the happy path" tutorial, I would not oppose to reading it.

I find it such a chore to setup dashboards and configure #monitoring for my #homelab.

Not something I enjoy or want to do.

I need some monitoring, but I want it to be as hassle-free as possible, and I ain't finding that at the moment.

#Proxmox Backup Server 4.0 released too.

#HomeLab
#SelfHosted
#SelfHosting

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-backup-server-4-0-released.169305/

Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.

So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun

@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware

Proxmox VE v9.0 Released!
https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-0

#homelab I’m starting to migrate some of my servers that have higher availability requirements from my home homelab to a dedicated server I just got at #hetzner

So far I decided to put Proxmox on bare metal. Now I’m thinking there might be a way to vzdump and restore my images on the new machine. I’ll have to give that a shot

I designed a revised case for the Sipeed NanoCluster. It supports a Noctua NF-A6x25 (5V PWM), improved opening/closing, plus bottom access to BOOT/RESET on Slot 1 and optimized airflow.

Files and details here:
https://www.printables.com/model/1376174-sipeed-nanocluster-case-noctua-edition

Fan control across nodes: https://github.com/meteyou/sipeed-nanocluster-server

Ok so I'm seeing some curious issues with this ceph cluster and either I have a config issue, or a core misunderstanding that I really should address before I build out further

I have 8 hdd disks across 4 nodes, and in rook they're dust assigned to a 4+2 EC pool.

I had thought it would spread the data over all 8 drives eventually

But in ceph pg dump I see two drives missing.

* maybe it just grabs the he first 6 that it sees and leaves those two alone? Would it swap in drives as a hot spare?
* Or maybe I had a hiccup and they didn't get assigned for some other reason?
* Maybe I should reset it and re-create with 5+3 EC?
* The two drives in question have basically no data usage but they're not errored out
#Homelab #Ceph #Kubernetes #Minilab

Also Telekom only gives you a /64 IPv6 prefix via 5G, so for some subnets I am actually doing IPv6 NAT (not even prefix translation) and it feels dirty. But works surprisingly well.
#IPv6 #Telekom #Homelab

PVE 9 released!

#ProxMox
#HomeLab
#SelfHosted
#SelfHosting

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-0-released.169257/

Eine #Homelab Erweiterung steht an. Ich hab die Möglichkeit sehr günstig an zwei weitere Rechner zu kommen. Das gibt mir die Möglichkeit meine Services zu stabilisieren und die Last vom #Proxmox Host zu nehmen. Ich denke auch darüber nach einen dedizierten Rechner für #Homeassistant vorzusehen.
Damit ich die Rechner integrieren kann, muss ich das Netzwerk anpassen. Ich habe nur noch einen Port frei.
Dazu habe ich die möglichen Szenarien aufgemalt. Gibt es Meinungen?
https://joplin.home.msc.wtf/shares/WopXQObwDCe6S6FcwDtMHa

Tests are passing?! I can go to bed. Yay.

Mini Rack Root update: I've been working on search functionality, because I don't have enough in the backlog already for Rack Root, and I've discovered just how little I know about database searches. After MANY iterations back and forth on all the ways not to do it, I've finally found a working piece of code.

I even used ChatGPT, which I almost never do and it was mostly helpful. Sometimes a search engine won't quite get you there and that's how ChatGPT helped. Here's an example with code, help me fix it.

I've also had oh-so-much fun with database schemas being case sensitive (camel case is out, snake case is in), triggers going...somewhere unknown, calling make_searchable() in the right places, and making sure my test environment was _really_ doing what it should have when I dropped the tables to recreate everything. Testing is close to, but not the same as, day to day use when an app is running, of course.

That's a really good stopping point for tonight and I will take it. 55 tests, all green.

Kennt jemand ein Tool mit dem ich eine Webseite überwachen ob sie sich NICHT geupdatet hat?! Am liebsten #selfhosted fürs #homelab.

changedetection.io scheint es nicht zu können.

Some how I am very envious of the 60MB RAM footprint while booting into a #linode #vps. The best I could get onto my #homelab is 300MB usage on a #Ubuntu cloud image. This is unfortunately the same as my desktop #ArchLinux with #KDE running.

The Ubuntu server image idled at 600MB RAM usage with #docker & #sshd. The culprits using most ram are #snapd & #multipathd.

Back to working on my #homelab after a break. It isn't very apparent or easy to find the cloud images for #ubuntu or #debian to run #VM. I have this setup via #libvirt #qemu & #cockpit. Took some time to find the correct permissions on #ArchLinux but quite a breeze to use afterwards.

#Ghost6 has arrived! Looks like I will be updating as soon as 6.1 comes out! ;)

Nothing major in terms of breaking changes that was not expected and the #MySQL8 is still the supported version.

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.0.0

Exploring a move from Plex to Jellyfin for my homelab. If you’re on iOS and use Jellyfin, definitely take a look at @manetmusic

Native iOS (and MacOS) client for music streaming that feels really nice!