Let’s tinker around and accidentally break something.
and debug it until you have to reinstall your entire stack from scarch
GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!
Are you implying it’s possible to debug without having to reinstall from scratch? Preposterous! 😂
Scarched arth
Have you tried introducing unnecessary complexity?
If you know how your setup works, then that’s a great time for another project that breaks everything.
Saturday morning: “Incus and podman seem interesting. I bet I could swap everything over while the family is out this afternoon”
Sunday evening: “Dad, when will the lights work again?”
“Dad, when will the lights work again?
As soon as selinux decides I have permission.
Infrastructure diagram? No! In this homelab we refer to the infrastructure hyperdodecahedron.
Don’t worry, you’re one Docker pull away from having to look up how to manually migrate Postgres databases within running containers!
(Looks at my PaperlessNGX container still down. Still irritated.)
https://github.com/pgautoupgrade/docker-pgautoupgrade
Or if you are on k8s, you can use cloudnativepg.
I’m just using Docker on Proxmox, buuuut… I’m gonna look into this project. It looks like a LIFESAVER. Thank you for sharing this. You’re awesome! :D
I feel your pain. Had to fix my immich, NC and Joplin postgresdb. Turned out, DB via NFS is a risky life. ;D
Off topic, warning: this comment section is making me want to learn things
It’s been 2 days off reddit and my brain has opinions other than “aaaargh” or “meh”.
Proceed with caution
If it’s stable, it’s not a lab.
That’s infrastructure.
You can always configure your vim further
or learn emacs
Then configure vim using emacs
It makes me start looking for the next thing. Got my jellyfin, got my pi hole, my retro console and just recently home assistant set up. (Just a few more buts to add to that). Next i think i am going to look into self hosting a cloud storage solution. Like google drive/photos etc. Would be nice to make my own backups and have them offline
Backups. You’re forgetting them.
Pro tip: If you’re using openwrt or other managed network components don’t forget to automatically back those up too. I almost had to reset my openwrt router and having to reconfigure that from scratch sucks.
Now try migrating all your docker containers to podman.
Just did that last weekend. Nothing to do anymore. 😢
Did you do Quadlets?
Yes of course. Had to spend a couple of hours fixing permission related issues.
I had problems getting apps with multiple containers working in quadlets (definitely a knowledge issue on my part, but didn’t feel the time learning it was beneficial, but will probably revisit during kubernetes learning) so went back to podman with docker compose.
I think it’s kinda better using quadlets, because I wrote some custom scripts, and quadlets made the process better. But podman compose is probably file too.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CA (SSL) Certificate Authority DNS Domain Name Service/System Git Popular version control system, primarily for code HA Home Assistant automation software ~ High Availability HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IP Internet Protocol NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency PSU Power Supply Unit SSD Solid State Drive mass storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) k8s Kubernetes container management package nginx Popular HTTP server
14 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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logging is probably down
You do, of course have a dedicated rsyslogd server? An isolated system to which logs are sent, so that if someone compromises another one of your systems, they can’t wipe traces of that compromise from those systems?
Oh. You don’t. Well, that’s okay. Not every lab can be complete. That Raspberry Pi over there in the corner isn’t actually doing anything, but it’s probably happy where it is. You know, being off, not doing anything.
Actually, one thing I want to do is switch from services being on a subdomain to services being on a path.
immich.myserver.com -> myserver.com/immich jellyfin.myserver.com -> myserver.com/jellyfinI’m getting tired of having to update DNS records every time I want to add a new service.
I guess the tricky part will be making sure the services support this kind of routing…
Wildcard CNAME pointing to your reverse proxy who then figures out where to route the request to? That’s what I’ve been doing - this way there’s no need to ever update DNS at all :)
I find the path a bit clunky because the apps themselves will oftentimes get confused (especially front-ends). So keeping everything “bare” wrt path, and just on “separate” subdomains is usually my preferred approach.
Why are you having to update your DNS records when you add a new service? Just set up a wildcard A record to send *.myserver.com to the reverse proxy and you never have to touch it again. If your DNS doesn’t let you set wildcard A records, then switch to a better DNS.
Because I’m an idiot. 🤦 Thanks!
I should do some breaking network changes… While tunneled in.
“Yes, while connected to my wireguard server through port 123 here from my Chinese office, I should probably try to upgrade the wireguard server. That’s a great idea!”
Ask me how I know.
I stopped the tailscale service…
… while ssh’d through the tailscale interface.
Luckily, it was my home server and I had to drive there anyway.
I used to make nginx changes while vpn’d into my network and utilizing guacamole (served via said nginx). I’m not a smart man.
Time to start documenting it!
At 71, I have to document. I started a long time ago. I worked for a mec. contractor long ago, and the rule was: ‘If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen.’ That just carried over to everything I do.
Do you write down what you write down on the internet?
As in a blog or wiki? I do not because I am not authoritative. What I know came from reading, doing, screwing it up, ad nauseam. When something finally clicks for me, I write it down because 9 times out of 10, I will need that info later. But my writing would be so full of inaccuracies that it would be embarrassing and possibly lead someone astray.
It’s how cults start!
I’ve started to take a l lot more notes at work I guess there will be a time where I take notes of what month it is!
I guess there will be a time where I take notes of what month it is!
You may jest, but there are times when I can’t remember what I had for breakfast. They say that you never truly forget anything, but that our recall mechanism fades over time. For a myriad of reasons, including age, my recall mechanism is shit.
Offt depends what you had and your version of health. I am hopeful that technology helps when I am that age, only a few years but ai agents seem to be a start. Just need to let go of those big data fears.
When’s the last time you checked if your backup solution works?
But if my backups actually work then I miss out on the joy of rebuilding everything from scratch and explaining to my wife why non of the lights in the house work anymore.
