Finally upgraded to #Unraid 7.0.1. I was nervous but it went much better than I expected. Looks like they worked out a bunch of kinks with the point release. Now I'm up to date.

Sometimes I think, maybe I should use TrueNAS, and then I remembered that their C•Suite decided to give the to FreeBSD... the very same operating system and community of developers and engineers who enabled their company to exist from the start, to scale to the level which brought them success and growth and accolades from the OSS and enterprise storage communities alike.

So no, I don't use TrueNAS. Whatever many reasons they and their indolent fanboys push for moving to Linux, and I have heard them all, it's irrelevant. They didn't just bite the hand that feeds, they went straight over to the clown-show makeup meme table and slathered it on; trying so hard to convince everyone including themselves that this betrayal was the Good and Ethical thing to do.

Luckily there are alternatives, and those will get my time, engineering efforts, and fiscal support. One thing to remember: alienated users do not recommend those formerly loved products to their employers, they do not "spread the love" via organic marketing, and perhaps sometimes they dissuade when they would formerly embrace.

Okay, we're gonna be yeeting our Echo devices shortly. What're good alternatives? We're a mixed household -- my partner is Android, I'm iOS -- and we have a home assistant installation kicking around, including integration with Hue

I'm leaning towards homepods, but I'm open to other options. #homelab #HomeAutomation

The way that games were meant to be played.

On Linux (NixOS), big screen.

AMD hardware fully for this machine.
Also the same machine that is part of a k8s cluster, running incus for lxc, Ceph for a storage cluster.
Connected by 2x 10gbs to the other machines.

TLDR homelabing strong lately.

Next big step: Doing *something* with my Vault instance. The main problem here is networking/DNS for HA. I've currently got three servers, one per controller node, and I'm accessing them via a Consul service Vault itself creates. That allows me to take down each of the hosts without service interruption.

But I would like to get rid of Consul, preferably without adding another tool, like HA proxy. So I think just deploying Vault into the k8s cluster is the right way.

1/2

did someone say homelab?!?!

Anyone have any suggestions for a #SIEM ? I was going to use Graylog, but I'm not married to anything.

Also thinking I'll give it a whole Terrabyte of storage.

Ceph cluster goes brrrrrrrrr.

Yep. I deployed to PROD on a Friday afternoon, and I'm not ashamed to admit (after all, I'm the one who needs to deal with the fall down anyway).
#SysAdminLife #HomeLab

#Proxmox virtualization often goes along with the great Proxmox Backup Server - and we always want statistics! Let's get our metrics of PBS in Grafana!

In this HowTo, we will quickly install and configure the pbs-exporter for hashtag#Prometheus on a Proxmox Backup Server system, add a token for the user and install the hashtag#Grafana dashboard. - #devops #homelab #netops #virtualization #backup #pbs #proxmoxbackupserver

https://gyptazy.com/howto-proxmox-backup-server-prometheus-exporter-grafana-dashboard/

This Week in Self-Hosted (14 March 2025)

@homeassistant #Matter support, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Cups -- a #container update monitoring platform, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!

https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-03-14/

Wanted to set up old laptop as a #homelab VM server but didn't want the complexity of #proxmox for my basic needs. #Truenas scale might have been ok except for the need for a dedicated boot device. Dropped on Redhat's "#cockpit machines" today and so far it seems perfect, very easy to spin up new VMs and access them through a polished web UI, as well as manage the host itself. Feel like this project deserves better recognition #linux

And that's it, Nomad is gone from the Homelab.

EDIT: This really deserves a bit more being said. Nomad served me well. It's an excellent piece of software, and setting up my Nomad/Consul/Vault cluster was a breeze. It is very suited for Homelab use - It supports all manner of features, but you don't have to use any of them, and then it's very slim to run. I chose it back then because its documentation did not contain the words "After you've chosen your CNI...", in contrast to k8s.

Hey NAS enthusiasts.
Any case suggestions for a NAS that can fit an itx/matx board as well as a full size GPU?
Looking to make a rendering/AI slave VM inside a NAS. The smaller half-height GPUs won't cut it.
#homelab #nas

Does anyone else know of a good self hosted ebook library server that can be used with native multi-platform reading app support and sync reading progress?

I really don't want to read books from a web app, I want to be able to read while offline whether on my iPhone, iPad or my Boox e-reader (Android)

I love the way BookFusion works, but I don't want to rely on their cloud storage (or any company's cloud storage for that matter)
#FOSS #SelfHosted #ebooks #nas #HomeLab

I'm trying out this new terminal you guys may have heard of #ghostty! Shieet!! The fuck is going on with terminals. It took be 20 minutes to figure out how to change my keyboard shortcuts!

Thing looks good tho!!!

#introduction though I'm not new here, but moved to my #selfhosted #Mastodon instance half a year ago .

I'm Florian , #IT/computer science student at #RWTHAachen and #tech enthusiast.
I do lots of #selfhosting in my #homelab, develop apps with #Flutter , but also websites and other #software .

I'm very passionate about emergency #medicine and work as a #paramedic (Rettungssanitäter ) on the #ambulance in #ems .
I love water sports, be it #sailing , #diving or #swimming .

New blog post, replacing Uptime Kuma with Gatus in my Homelab: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/k8s-migration-21-gatus/

This closes phase 1 of my migration to k8s, because Uptime Kuma was the last service running on Nomad. The next post will likely be a little while, because the next steps are pretty mechanical.

Cloud-ish: Create a Multi-Device Office Suite Using Syncthing and LibreOffice

Hot off the press! This is post number 3 in my homelab journey series. In this post, I explore a temporary pivot away from using a homelab server while addressing some hardware issues.

#homelab #cloud #officesuite #syncthing #libreoffice

https://robmcbryde.com/syncthing-and-libreoffice