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Homelab initial setup

I have gone with Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS for my Homelab's operating system. Most of the videos I've seen for Homelab-related guides and reviews tend to revolve around Proxmox and/or TrueNAS. I have no experience with either of those, but I do have experience with Docker, so I am opting to go with straight up...

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Setting up mine, and my family's, Homelab

I've opted for what I believe is the easiest, and cheapest, method of setting up my Homelab. I'm using my old work PC which has the following spec: My Homelab Goals My homelab goals are centered around two fundamental tenets: lower cost for online services and privacy. I want to be: Documenting my journey I...

Tags Docker homelab Own Your Data Linux Privacy

I’m now running pi-hole through my Raspberry Pi 2b.

It’s both amazing and depressing just how many trackers are being blocked by it. I even noticed a regular ping being made to an Amazon endpoint exactly every 10 minutes.

I will try and write up my set up soon, which is a mix of setting up the Raspberry Pi and configuring my home router.

I’ve also managed to finally get a home server running again – using Ubuntu Server LTS.

My plan on my server is to just install services I want to self-host using docker. Docker being the only program I’ve installed on the machine itself.

So far I have installed the following:

  • Home Assistant — On initial playing with this I have decided that it’s incredible. Connected to my LG TV and lets me control it from the app / laptop.
  • Portainer — A graphical way to interact with my docker containers on the server.

Tags homelab servers Own Your Data Linux self hosting

I have decided to get back into tinkering with my Raspberry Pi.

I will be blogging my journey as I stumble through my initial playing, through to building out my first proper homelab.

This first Raspberry Pi (model 2b) will be initially used as both a wireguard VPN server and a local DNS server.

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Connecting to a VPN in Arch Linux with nmcli

nmcli is the command line tool for interacting with NetworkManager. For work I sometimes need to connect to a vpn using an .ovpn (openvpn) file. This method should work for other vpn types (I’ve only used openvpn) Installing the tools All three of the required programs are available via the official Arch repositories. Importing the...

Tags Terminal Linux Arch Linux Network Manager Networking

The Arch Wiki really is an incredible resource, regardless of what distro you’re running. Just got my video drivers setup correctly (I think) by just following the guide and the pages it took me to. #RTFM

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