Tools
Clearing old Disks – Wipe them
Before re-using any old disk, I do like to wipe them of data. Before removing the disk from the node, we wipe it clean. Now they are ready to store for later use or passed to a new owner with an old server.
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To build a home lab on Linux with Docker and Dockge/Portainer. Self hosting servers, services, websites and more. Using Ubuntu and Proxmox. Backed by TrueNAS.
Ricing
Make BASH nicer, make it shine.
As I as many of you spend most of my time in a terminal, why not make it shine a little. As everyone know, ZSH is easy to rice, but you can almost as easy rice your BASH shell.
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ShredOS – Disk Eraser
ShredOS uses the nwipe is a program that will securely erase the entire contents of disks. It can wipe a single drive or multiple disks simultaneously. It can operate as both a command line tool without a GUI or with a ncurses GUI.
Basics
Server Monitoring with Beszel
Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Proxmox and Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions. It has a nice web interface, simple configuration, and is ready to use out of the box. It supports automatic backup, multi-user, OAuth authentication, and API access.
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TrueNAS VM PBS
Proxmox Backup Server is flexible and can be installed on any device running Debian, a VM or a LXC. Here I show my TrueNAS VM setup, as my main production has moved to my new TrueNAS CE box. Having PBS on the NAS is making use of the large and fast SAS ZFS RAID 10 storage.
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TrueNAS LXC PBS
Proxmox Backup Server is flexible and can be installed on any device running Debian, a VM or a LXC. Here I show my TrueNAS LXC setup, as my main production has moved to my new TrueNAS CE box. Having PBS on the NAS is making use of the large and fast SAS ZFS RAID 10 storage.
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S.M.A.R.T. GUI
Monitoring your drives. It's easy and quick to see the state of your drives in a GUI. There is a nice app called Scrutiny that will give you a Dashboard displaying disk health at a glance. Runs on TrueNAS, Unraid, Synology, pfSense, QNAP, RockStore and Windows. Implement on Docker or real rust.
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About the Blog Design
I have been asked about my design, and therefore – this post. The heavy lifting is by Ghost CRM. I then added some code for the TOC (Table of Content), Share on Social Media buttons, Copy to the Clipboard and some language based highlight color for the code segments, logo, background color ...
Basics
Docker + Dockge on a Alpine VM
Make it small, use Alpine images. The smallest of them all is probably Alpine. I also included notes on Dockge and Portainer. For most of my VM apps Alpine is more than enough. It's small because it's lacking the bloat from GNU.
MyNewLab
Ansible - Update All Nodes
Use Ansible to ensure that your nodes, VMs, and containers (CTs) are always up-to-date. You can create multiple playbooks and execute them with a single command or through a script.
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A Docker based HA Pi-hole 6
This is a follow-up version of my post High Availability Pi-hole 6.
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High Availability Pi-hole 6
After a long time, a totally new under the hood, Pi-hole is here. This is an update to my old post, A redundant DNS - Pi-Stack. This HA DNS will use Pi-hole, Unbound, Nebula-sync and keepalived.