So here's something I'm genuinely interested to see and read about and I bet other would be too ?
If you have your #Homelab in or around your home and use mostly recycled hardware where possible, Show me your setup and or describe it from the OS to the hardware specs.
Boosts appreciated ❤️
So here's something I'm genuinely interested to see and read about and I bet other would be too ?
If you have your #Homelab in or around your home and use mostly recycled hardware where possible, Show me your setup and or describe it from the OS to the hardware specs.
Boosts appreciated ❤️
Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.
So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun
@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware
#homelab #power9 #ibm #freebsd #goodmorning #unpacking #servers #hardware #happiness
Finally, the separate box of POWER9 upgrades appears. These are for the dual socket 144 thread Talos II here at home (the LC-922 are in colo). Relocation has turned up a lot of missing hardware, very pleased about this turn of events.
So, the long lost box contains:
- 4x Samsung 883-DCT 2TB SSDs for local storage ZFS pool (with 2x Optane NVMe cache)
- 3x PM863a 240GB SSDs for the OS
- always more RAM
- an OcuLink 4x to U.2 cable w/ Optane drive floating around somewhere
- Mellanox 50GbE QSFP28 NIC for RDMA fun
@dexter finally, we can continue the project with appropriate hardware
#homelab #power9 #ibm #freebsd #goodmorning #unpacking #servers #hardware #happiness
Some how I am very envious of the 60MB RAM footprint while booting into a #linode #vps. The best I could get onto my #homelab is 300MB usage on a #Ubuntu cloud image. This is unfortunately the same as my desktop #ArchLinux with #KDE running.
The Ubuntu server image idled at 600MB RAM usage with #docker & #sshd. The culprits using most ram are #snapd & #multipathd.
Some how I am very envious of the 60MB RAM footprint while booting into a #linode #vps. The best I could get onto my #homelab is 300MB usage on a #Ubuntu cloud image. This is unfortunately the same as my desktop #ArchLinux with #KDE running.
The Ubuntu server image idled at 600MB RAM usage with #docker & #sshd. The culprits using most ram are #snapd & #multipathd.
Credentials shouldn't be around in plain text files. But I also don't want to set up a fully fledged credentials management solution for my homelab.
Wouldn't it be nice to dynamically load the credentials I need when I step into my work directory, and remove then when I leave it?
Let's use @bitwarden and direnv to keep credentials safe in all simplicity!
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/28-direnv-bitwarden-integration/
Thanks to SeaweedFS, I've set up two replicas of the BSD Cafe's media. One is on a backup server (for disaster recovery purposes only, also containing the hourly zfs-autobackup backups), and the other is on a Raspberry Pi 4 running FreeBSD, which is one of my home backup servers - just one meter away from my desk.
I've also configured Nginx in a jail, so when I'm at home, the BSD Cafe's media is served directly from the local replica.
The performance is lightning fast.
#BSDCafe #SeaweedFS #S3 #Mastodon #SelfHosting #Homelab #FreeBSD #RunBSD
Thanks to SeaweedFS, I've set up two replicas of the BSD Cafe's media. One is on a backup server (for disaster recovery purposes only, also containing the hourly zfs-autobackup backups), and the other is on a Raspberry Pi 4 running FreeBSD, which is one of my home backup servers - just one meter away from my desk.
I've also configured Nginx in a jail, so when I'm at home, the BSD Cafe's media is served directly from the local replica.
The performance is lightning fast.
#BSDCafe #SeaweedFS #S3 #Mastodon #SelfHosting #Homelab #FreeBSD #RunBSD
I don't think I've done an #introduction before despite having been here for a few years now.
My name is Nagaram or Nags. I am kinda 30. #tech nerd #history nerd #philosophy nerd and I will talk ad nauseum about #religion and my weird #atheist stances. Such as thinking #magick and the #occult is cool!
I work #IT so I mostly talk about that and my #homelab like my blog thinkstoomuch.net
I'm also an annoying leftist! I will post about my #gun ownership and #firearms training with anyone who's interested.
DMs open. Email is open too if you wanna chat, vent, or call me names. All valid!
I want to start homelabbing, so should I get a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Raspberry Pi 4 or a second hand ThinkPad i5 6th gen?
Credentials shouldn't be around in plain text files. But I also don't want to set up a fully fledged credentials management solution for my homelab.
Wouldn't it be nice to dynamically load the credentials I need when I step into my work directory, and remove then when I leave it?
Let's use @bitwarden and direnv to keep credentials safe in all simplicity!
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/07/28-direnv-bitwarden-integration/
Homepage is a really nice dashboard with tons of functionality. Just fiddled a little with and i'm impressed! 😎 (Screenshot attached with my current setup)
Link: https://gethomepage.dev/
Homepage is a really nice dashboard with tons of functionality. Just fiddled a little with and i'm impressed! 😎 (Screenshot attached with my current setup)
Link: https://gethomepage.dev/
Well, it's time. I'm releasing my tool that lets you aggregate patch and update status of hosts over ssh on unix-like systems.
The github repository has details as well as links to the exhaustive documentation.
It is my hope that at least another person finds it useful
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