I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it’s been a very nice endeavor.
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I migrated my whole native service infrastructure to Docker services this weekend. I prepared for it the previous weeks; basically looking up information about details I wasn’t sure about. The services were mailing, file cloud, and traccar with modoboa, ownCloud respectively. I moved to mailcow and Nextcloud and replaced my feedly account with NextCloud News as a bonus. So far pretty happy with it, had a couple set-backs but also learned a lot in the process. This was the first time for me doing something productive with Docker
Total noob to Docker (desktop for windows) and I’m just trying to figure out how (and where) to add a config to my Navidrome image or change lines on the image itself, to point it to my music library and create admin login credentials (ಥ﹏ಥ) If I can accomplish that then I eventually want to try Immich or NextCloud afterward.
I want to switch to Linux but I’m not sure where to start! I want to
- play current-gen games (graphically speaking) on steam, as well as
- lots of retro games with Launchbox/RetroArch
- do 3D modeling in blender, and
- produce music in a free DAW.
I don’t know if any of those factors impose restrictions due to software/hardware differences (or if that even makes a difference), but I want to move over everything I can into a linux environment
I spent two hours last night beating myself over the head with RAM sticks. Got an ewasted server that had the alarm misconfigured, figured I’d upgrade it and put in a valid configuration since it was just off my size. Slapped in some matching size sticks and it wouldn’t boot. It took my embarrassingly long to realize that the speeds werent the same and that the server really cared about the speeds being the same, more than it cared about sizes being the same incidentally.
I work in IT that should have been the first fuckin thing I checked smh
My current project is email. Setting up Mailcow and moving my domains over to VMs on a OVH KS-3 server right here in Canada. I’m sick of depending on cloud email providers and want more control of my data. Also getting Addy.io setup to move my aliases over from SimpleLogin. End game is to dump Proton and go all selfhosted for email and Mullvad for VPN. For Mullvad I found that you can buy a 6 or 12 month gift card vouncher on Amazon and it works out to being less than paying Mullvad directly per month.
Migrating from proxmox to incus, continued.
- got a manually-built wireguard instance rolling and tested, it’s now “production”
- setting up and testing backups now
- going to export some NFS and iscsi to host video files to test playback over the network from jellyfin
- building ansible playbooks to rebuild instances
- looking into ansible to add system monitoring, should be easy enough
Lots of fun, actually!
What’s your motivation for the switch? Second time in a short while I’ve heard about people migrating to incus.
I’ve moved to all containers and I’m gradually automating everything. The metaphor for orchestration and provisioning is much clearer in incus than it was in lxd, and makes way more sense than proxmox.
Proxmox is fine, I’ve used it for going on 8 years now, I’m still using it, in fact. But it’s geared toward a “safe” view of abstraction that makes lxc containers seem like virtual machines, and they absolutely aren’t, they are much, much more flexible and powerful than vms.
There are also really annoying deficiencies in proxmox that I’ve taken for granted for a long time as well:
- horrible builtin resource usage metrics. And I’m happy to run my influxdb/grafana stack to monitor, but users should be able to access those metrics locally and natively, especially if they’re going to be exported by the default metrics export anyway.
- weird hangovers from early proxmox versions on io delay. Proxmox is still making users go chase down iostat rabbit holes to figure out why io_wait and “io delay” are not the same metric, and why the root cause is almost always disk, yet proxmox shows the io_wait stat as if it could be “anything”
- integration of pass through devices is a solved problem, even for lxc, yet the bulk of questions for noobs is about just that. Pass through is solved for so many platforms, why proxmox just doesn’t have that as a GUI option for lxc is baffling.
- no install choices for zfs on root on single disk (why???)
- etc
Ultimately, I have more flexibility with a vanilla bookworm install with incus.
Fumbling around with k3s to get my toes into deploying a Kubernetes cluster from scratch for the first time ever. No real long term usage planned, just some testing to gather experience.
This week I realised my Mastodon instance was severely out of date because I was using nix flakes and didn’t autoupdate but now that’s been fixed 😄
I’m integrating my Mac mini (running Asahi Linux) into my server setup. It’s slow going as I also have to move some data around so I can repurpose some hard drives.
I’m building services out for my family as things enshittify. Moved the family over to an immich instance, run a family blog on Wordpress (working on rolling my own since it’s over complicated and with all the Wordpress shenanigans…), plex (lifetime account, works for now). I have a number of self-built projects as well, a “momboard” like system that is integrated with my Wordpress blog for access and control, a pi based backup server that lives at my friends house and nails a VPN connection to my router and I’m playing with Meshtastic as an offline communication system for my kids scout troop when we’re camping without cell signal. Lots of home automation with home assistant as well.
I host it all on Debian servers, raspberry pi’s and esp32 devices (Meshtastic and home automation). I used to run kubernoodles but it was more complicated than needed and for my use case, docker, ansible and bash scripts manage it all just fine.
I just set up wanderer and workout-tracker. Along with installing gadgetbridge on my phone, I now have a completely self hosted fitness/workout stack with routes, equipment tracking, heatmaps, general health metrics like HRV, heart rate, etc through my Garmin watch, without having Garmin Connect installed. Awesome!
That sounds so cool! Not using any tracking/nav devices other than my phone but currently my routes just stay local without having any kind of management for them.
Been messing around w/ podman, and after hours of slamming my head against the wall, I decided Seafile isn’t worth it. :) It launches a bunch of stuff inside one container, and I just couldn’t figure out how to get that to work w/ quadlet (worked fine w/
podman kube playthough).I got forgejo set up and now I’m looking into setting up runners so I can finally migrate off hosted gitlab onto my own forgejo instance.
Some other things I’m planning on doing this week:
- migrate existing services to podman quadlet from docker compose - will make each existing service into a pod and play w/ pod networking
- set up technitium - tested it locally and it worked well, so just need to move it and configure it; hope to use it as the primary DNS for my house
- set up owncloud ocis - there’s a new POSIX FS option, which was my main hangup when I last looked into a nextcloud alternative (I only need storage + collabora)
- probably some kind of dashboard, because the number of services I host is getting a bit long
If I get time, I want to install openSUSE MicroOS onto my NAS and start migrating everything to it (from openSUSE Leap). I really like the idea of an immutable base OS, and my NAS is already 90% containers (pretty much just Samba left). I need to fix some permission issues anyway (keep having to
chownmy videos so samba and jellyfin can work together), and this should make things a bit more obvious.I’ll probably also start a blog about my self-hosting journey, because the info around podman is kinda sparse, especially when it comes to quadlet.
I started hosting audiobookshelf since Jellyfin was pretty clunky for audiobooks.
how is your experience with it? I’m considering setting up audiobook shelf as well.
It’s been great for me so far.
It’s worked really well for me.
I need to migrate off Docker Desktop for Windows and Storage Spaces but I fear the process will be difficult due to my data volume and the stupidity of Windows. I should never have gone Windows, but I wanted to use Steam Big Picture off the media PC and didn’t want to deal with getting that functional on Linux.
But Docker Desktop for Windows keeps crashing WSL and bricking the network devices randomly, and also continuously grows memory consumption until the machine reboots. Piece of shit.
Try Podman Desktop if you want a GUI to manage your container , and docker desktop is the source of the the crashes. You can run docker images / container / kube through it as well as podman one.
Windows Docker is so bad, I don’t even know why it’s a thing.
Some good planning might make the migration less painful. I would recommend a ZFS or other COW storage solution under the docker host so you can do snapshot backups and not have to worry about quiesing databases, etc.
Yea I’m gonna do zfs or something when I get set up properly again. I’ve got 2 16TB HDDs and Storage Spaces won’t let me pull a drive out :v
I think I’m gonna have to make a new Storage Space and slowly grow that one and shrink the other as I basically shift the extra storage budget between the two until the data is on just one of my drives without redundancy, and then I’ll pull that drive, dual boot Ubuntu or something, format, get everything prepared, and then mount, copy, start services, and then go back and kill the old storage spaces and then never run Windows for anything meaningful again.
Check the returns policy, but if you could buy a large external drive at something like BestBuy, do your copy then return it, that might be a lot safer than what you’re talking about. Just a thought.
I’m working on my first kubernetes cluster. I’m trying to set the systems up with NixOS. I can get a kublet and a control plane running. But I’m getting permission errors when trying to use kubectl rootless on the system running the control plane. I think I figured out which file i need to change, now I just want to record that change in my configuration.nix.
nixos doesn’t play well with rootless containers in my experience
Ah sorry to hear that. Did you find something better that works for you? I’m open to suggestions :D
Not who you asked but I moved to Talos Linux for k8s
I’m curious how this goes for you. I run all my machines on NixOS except my k8s cluster which is Talos for now. I have been thinking of switching to Nix for that too.
I followed along the nixos wiki for kubernetes and creating the “master” kublet is super easy when you set easyCerts = true. Problem is, it spits out files to /var/lib/kubernetes/secrets/ that is owned by root. Specifically, the cluster-admin.pem file. If I want to push commands to the cluster using kubectl I have to elevate to a root shell. I could just chmod or chown the file but that seems like a security risk.
Now I’m not familiar with k8s at all. This is my first go through, so I could be doing something wrong or missing a step. I saw something about the role based security but I haven’t jumped down that rabbit hole yet. Any tips for running kubectl without root?
I got a Matrix server set up with conduwuit but the problem is that none of my friends are on there so I don’t use it. The one friend I made the damn thing for so we could chat just started going through a bunch of personal stuff so now it won’t be used for a while. FML.
Cool to have it ready anyways! Does it federate? You can use all sorts of dev-support groups etc.
