Networking
VLAN - Setup How To
VLAN in our home and home lab. How to segregate, allow traffic between VLAN. Networking is the base knowledge we need to run a home lab. This is about how not why, The way is for you to read about.
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Talos
Talos on Proxmox
Running a Kubernetes cluster using Talos on Proxmox. Talos is small, efficient and has safety by design. Adding my new favorite to my cluster to replace my K8s and K3s clusters. I will still keep the K0s cluster I have.
Proxmox
Proxmox Datacenter Manager
PDM is a perfect dashboard for our Proxmox setup. Perfect for a home lab, but The current version is now 1.0. It's an open-source, centralized solution providing a single pane of glass view overseeing and managing multiple, independent Proxmox based environments.
News
The Polar Night is finally Over
The Kaamos, also known as the Polar Night, is the time of the year when there are at least 24 consecutive hours of darkness. Kaamos can be long in the North - 52 days.
pfSense + Cloudflare DDNS
If you do not have a fixed IP, you will need a DDNS.
Alpine
Install an Alpine Desktop VM
Sometimes you need a small desktop on the cluster to do stuff. Alpine is a pure Linux OS, it's tiny. Adding a desktop, and it's there, a lightweight, minimalistic and customizable Linux experience in a VM. It uses Open RC, not Systemd.
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year, 2025.
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Merry X-mas
I wish you all happy holidays and a fantastic new year 2025 🎄🎁
IaC
Terraforming Proxmox & VPS
I will outline the process necessary to set up and utilize Terraform, from HashiCorp, within Proxmox, and also how I spin up VPS instances. And a quick word about what is Ansible's role.
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Polar Night starts
Polar Night starts
We are moving
Sometimes you need to move – to bigger or smaller premises. After all the children moved out, our residence has become excessively large for the two of us. But the network speed for our sites started to be on the edge.
IaC
A Quick article on Infrastructure as Code. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources through machine-readable definition files.