We're going live to at 10am Mountain (UTC-6) to set up a new Proxmox system for testing apps and containers!! Be sure to stop by and say hi or share some Proxmox tips/tricks!

YT: https://youtube.com/dbtechyt/live
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/dbtechyt

SelfHosting #Homelab

Das ist immer so eine Zitterparty mit Bitwarden und Vaultwarden Updates.
Diesmal gab es Probleme beim Update.
Habs wieder zum Laufen bekommen. Nur wenn Passwort Manager nicht mehr läuft, ist das Chaos pur.

Testlabor aktiviert!

Hier entsteht gerade mein GoToSocial-Playground. Während drüben bei @matthias das "echte Leben" stattfindet, wird hier experimentiert, getestet und vielleicht auch mal was kaputt gemacht.

Bin neugierig wie sich GTS im Vergleich zu Mastodon schlägt!

One of the signs that someone has a #homelab at this address? A box labeled 13 x 1.8TB. Yep. I #selfhost and am upgrading some storage, plus getting some spares.

They’re 10K RPM SAS drives. I hope they aren’t 520-byte formatted, though they probably are. Takes ages to format 13 drives to 512-byte blocks.

Happy #Sysadmin Appreciation Day to all my fellow admins, engineers and individuals who make it all “just work”.

And another Server migrated over from Hetzner to @netcup . Again, absolutely flawless and working great :-)

Services now migrated to Netcup:
- Uptime-Kuma
- BIND (secondary authoritative DNS for my zones)
- Forgejo (Git forge)
- Personal Website
- Librespeed (Speed-Test Node)
- Bsky PDS (Personal-Data-Server for BlueSky)
- Atuin (Shell-History Sync server)
- Anubis (Anti AI Crawler protection)
- Authentik (SAML/OIDC SSO Server)
- Wallos (Subscription tracker)
- stepCA (x.509 PKI CA)

Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (aarch64) with Podman and behind a traefik reverse-proxy. All containers managed via Systemd and quadlet files (/etc/containers/systemd/*.container)

Services remaining on Hetzner:
- OpenShift lab
- Mastodon burningboard.net
- Ansible RHCE Lab/Learn environment
- freeIPA/IdM Server and Red Hat Satellite

Step by step getting my (vast) infrastructure sorted and onto energy-efficient ARM servers at Netcup :)

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot from trial, error, and a few coffee-fueled rabbit holes while setting up all my self-hosted services.

Now I’m wondering… would anyone be interested if I started sharing tutorials?

Could be:
Blog posts
Video walk-throughs
Docker setups
Reverse proxy tricks, identity management, and more

Everything from “click here” beginner guides to advanced stuff like SSO with Authentik or federated Matrix!

Let me know what you’d like to see — and if there’s enough interest, I’ll start posting!

#SelfHosting #FOSS #OpenSource #Homelab #Fediverse #CloudSovereignty #TechEducation #ActivityPub

During my troubleshooting of Proxmox VM migrations, I got a little reckless and may have deleted my production VM’s boot disk… fuck

This is why backups!!

Self-Host Weekly (25 July 2025)

Quirky release names, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #LetterFeed, and more in this week's #newsletter recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-07-25/

Current blog pipeline:

1. ️ How I use Bitwarden to keep my homelab credentials safe
2. A flexible and safe homelab with Proxmox
3. How bridged networks actually work
4. A reproducible homelab with opentofu, cloud-init and ansible
5. ️ GitOps with Flux and encrypted secrets with SOPS and age
6. ️ Deploying in a Specific Order with Flux Kustomizations
7. Kubernetes monitoring
8. Kubernetes backups

Experimenting
Writing
Under review
️ Scheduled

Photo prism vs immich #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

Na naszym kanale YouTube wylądowało właśnie nagranie z prelekcji Szymona Izydorka “Wielkie fale, wielkie narzędzia - surfowanie po drodze do skalowalnej infrastruktury”, którą mogliście zobaczyć podczas 19 Sesji Linuksowej.

Jeśli nie zdążyliście obejrzeć na żywo – nic straconego! Teraz możecie nadrobić w dowolnym momencie.

Link do nagrania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKkpRryeZOE

Hey #homelab crew! I know you guys are into cameras too. What's the rec's for.. I guess wifi cameras ( I'm in a rental and putting holes everywhere probably won't work). I'm primarily looking for outside coverage which I mean gets tricky cause of power.. Anyways, I'm starting my journey! Show me the yellow brick road!

My home internet is down for the night, which is incredibly rare, but has allowed me to test out some of my #homelab/smart home stuffs in the absence of internet.

Anyway, #Jellyfin loads fine if I’m connecting to it using its local IP address. Playback through the web interface seems fine when starting the video, but immediately after it’d just.. freeze.

Seemingly all my media files act like this (all of which coming from my NAS). Any clue why?

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Update: ok yea, nah, it works. that’s so freaking cool lmao.

No. I did not spend 1 hour of my day tweaking renovate.json.

So I know I don't really post on here much these days, so I guess it's time for an update!

I've recently started an Internship as a Linux Systems Engineer for Managed Web Hosting company. Everything we do is Linux based

It finally feels like all the years of playing around with my Linux #homelab has paid off. I now get paid, to do the very thing I love doing!

Here's to the future

The Aqara FP2 mmWave Presence sensors are on sale on Amazon for $57.99 (down from $85.99) and they work really well in Home Assistant!

More info: https://amzn.to/3Us36hP

I’m already planning the homelab, the colocation, the network expansion.

Physical test fit is good!

(The 3.5in drives are not populated yet) #Homelab #Ceph #Kubernetes #Minilab