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Navidrome on TrueNAS Scale (Day 23)

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Navidrome on TrueNAS Scale (Day 23)

Got an old music collection sitting around? try Navidrome

K3s upgrade to 1.31.5 (Day 22)

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K3s upgrade to 1.31.5 (Day 22)

K3s upgrades are surprisingly simple - just rerun your initial install command and you're done

Traefik Timeouts and Immich (Day 21)

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Traefik Timeouts and Immich (Day 21)

I have been setting up Immich, i.e destroying and recreating it until I got my photo organization and volumes just right. The next step was to do a mass import after testing, the CLI tool makes mass imports pretty straightforward, but I kept having an issue with certain files

Bufferbloat (Day 20)

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Bufferbloat (Day 20)

While browsing and editing large RAW photos over SMB, I noticed some high kind of latency and got asking if this could be reduced. Some research later i found something called bufferbloat. What's Bufferbloat? I found this analogy of bufferbloat from Waveform.com that's worth sharing

Machine and Container updates (Day 19)

Machine and Container updates (Day 19)

Today was all about updates. What started as just routine maintenance turned into a reminder of why we keep backups (and backups of backups). The Update Plan * Update Proxmox nodes * Update VMs * Update OPNsense to version 25 Things Go Sideways After the updates and reboots, OPNsense decided to forget about

Homepage Dashboard (Day 18)

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Homepage Dashboard (Day 18)

Spent today setting up Homepage to organize access to all the URLs I currently have. Current dashboard Basic Configuration The base setup is defined in the settings.yaml file and looks like this: title: <Your title name> theme: dark color: slate background: image: <image> blur: sm

Minio (S3-Compatible Storage) and Terragrunt (Day 17)

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Minio (S3-Compatible Storage) and Terragrunt (Day 17)

With Minio running on our new storage, we've now got S3-compatible storage right. First use case: moving VM state off the local filesystem. Setup and Configuration Access Keys First, head to Minio and create an access key - you'll need both the Access Key and Secret

Storage (RAIDZ1) continued....(Day 16)

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Storage (RAIDZ1) continued....(Day 16)

This is a continuation of this post, the final piece arrived today - another 12TB drive to complete the storage setup. Storage Configuration Created a new pool using RAIDZ1 with a 256GB SSD as ZFS L2ARC read-cache. Unlike the previous mirror setup from my testing, RAIDZ1 gives me more usable

Storage (TrueNas, and USB controllers) (Day 13-15)

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Storage (TrueNas, and USB controllers) (Day 13-15)

What started as needing storage turned into a deep dive into USB and storage performances, and lessons about things like UASP, unstable drive paths, and temperamental USB controllers.

ArgoCD & App of Apps (Day 11 - 12)

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ArgoCD & App of Apps (Day 11 - 12)

Keeping everything in git and letting Argo handle deployments. Plus a look at the app of apps pattern for organizing multiple applications.

Debugging and General tips (Day 10)

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Debugging and General tips (Day 10)

Common debugging patterns and tips.

Service Routing with Traefik - External Services and URLs (Day 9)

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Service Routing with Traefik - External Services and URLs (Day 9)

Using Traefik to route traffic to services outside Kubernetes, e.g. Proxmox and OPNsense UIs, including SSL certificates.

Service Consolidation and Blog Migration (Day 8)

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Service Consolidation and Blog Migration (Day 8)

I'm making some changes to my service organization today. I've moving Grafana from my atlas main cluster described here over to the prism cluster. The thinking here is services that need to connect to multiple sources could ideally live in one centralized place. (we will see

Complex Simple Solutions Continued (Day 7)

Complex Simple Solutions Continued (Day 7)

This is a continuation of the previous post here. Left off with the Traefik setup in k3s not picking up the certificate, and if you read that post one thing that immediately comes to mind is “Did you check the right TLS secret was being used?” Since I’m working

Complex Simple Solutions (Day 5 & 6)

Complex Simple Solutions (Day 5 & 6)

After the whole VM boot ordering not working the way i wanted, I finally decided to uncluster the nodes. (Also very likely a skill issue). To be fair having the nodes in a cluster made it easier for centralized management and easy VM migrations. From LXC to K3s This is

Traefik, Reverse Proxies and Lxc Containers (Day 4)

Traefik, Reverse Proxies and Lxc Containers (Day 4)

After running Proxmox for about 2 months, I realized I hadn’t tried out LXC containers yet. What better way to start than setting up a reverse proxy? What’s a Reverse Proxy? Think of a reverse proxy like a bartender - you ask for a drink, and they handle

Systemd and Proxmox (Day 3)

Systemd and Proxmox (Day 3)

It turns out that Proxmox’s quorum requirements are not as “simple” as I thought. The initial solution of setting quorum expectations to 1 worked… sort of. Here’s what happened: When a node booted up (remember it can’t initially “see” the other node), OPNsense would start (great!), provide

New Netgear Switch, OPNsense and Vlans (Day 2)

New Netgear Switch, OPNsense and Vlans (Day 2)

I got a new Netgear managed switch yesterday and so today was all about network segmentation and fighting with OPNsense. Also learned some interesting bits about Proxmox clustering that I didn’t expect to deal with. First up, got OPNsense reinstalled on the N100 box - fresh start for the

Catch Up - What have I been up to?(Day 1)

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Catch Up - What have I been up to?(Day 1)

I recently came across the #100DaysOfHomelab challenge and thought it’d be a perfect way to document stuff I’m doing. Day 1 is really a catch-up on recent changes, and there have been quite a few. Kubernetes Been rebuilding the k8s cluster multiple times (as one does in a

Terraforming Proxmox

Terraforming Proxmox

So you've got Proxmox running, and you’re tired of clicking through the UI to create VMs. The next logical step is to write some provisioning code. This is how I did it. This was the first thing i did after installing the hypervisor, I went looking for

A highly available kubernetes home lab setup

A highly available kubernetes home lab setup

Remember this single-control plane setup from last time? Well, I decided to level up. The New Architecture The plan is simple (this is an understatement): * 3 control plane nodes * 2 HAProxy load balancers with Keepalived for that sweet virtual IP All tied together with Tailscale for remote access Tailscale setup

Single control-plane kubernetes home lab

Single control-plane kubernetes home lab

So I decided to build a Kubernetes cluster at home. Sure, I could say it’s mainly for self-hosting + probably ML (I will need to add a GPU node) workloads I want to experiment with, but honestly, I’ve always wanted a homelab to tinker with. Having a proper test