2021 - December #33

Retiring my Dell R610

Tech · esxi r610 m900 tinyminimicro rack · 2021-12-22 · Daniel

Ever since a friend gave me a Dell R610, I have used that as my primary home lab server. Due to its age, I find that I am unable to run the most recent versions of some software packages, including the latest iterations of VMware ESXi and vCenter. Also, my …Continue reading

2021 - November #32

Wall-mount rack

homelab · rack · 2021-11-27 · Daniel

Since I bought my Cisco equipment, I have had it racked in the cheap, two-post desktop rack that came with the equipment when I bought it. It was pretty bad, but it worked:

I really wanted something better than this, so I started doing some web searches to get ideas …Continue reading

2021 - November #31

healthchecks.io

Tech · monitoring · 2021-11-15 · Daniel

Recently, a friend introduced me to healthchecks.io, a service for monitoring cron jobs.
A week or so ago, I configured several of my cron jobs to be monitored through this system, and it has already helped me: yesterday I received a notification that an rsync job did not run …Continue reading

2021 - November #30

Printer update

Tech · docker printer · 2021-11-09 · Daniel

Here's a months-overdue update on that HP Envy printer: I wasn't able to return the printer, and I still wanted a better scanner app than the HP's built-in one, so I decided to take the Raspberry Pi 4 that I mentioned in an earlier post and attach the printer directly …Continue reading

2021 - November #29

Update on migration to Docker/Traefik

Tech · traefik docker · 2021-11-05 · Daniel

I have been working hard these last many weeks in order to move all services off of my main DigitalOcean Droplet/VM. In the process, I have been moving everything to Docker, with full automation via Ansible. I have finally achieved this goal, for the web services anyway, and now …Continue reading

2021 - October #28

MinFS

Tech · 2021-10-28 · Daniel

Over the last month, I have been continuing my work at automating my systems and have made a lot of progress in that effort.

Part of that will be relocating some files that I still want web-accessible, but not on this website. Enter DigitalOcean Spaces, and MinFS to access it …Continue reading

2021 - October #27

acme.sh and Let's Encrypt certificates

Tech · encryption · 2021-10-18 · Daniel

I have been needing to cut over to acme v2 for a long time, and I didn't bother doing it until way too late -- this weekend. As a result of my tardiness, my iPhone has not been able to receive email from my mail server for more than a month …Continue reading

2021 - September #26

Blog automation

Tech · docker ansible · 2021-09-26 · Daniel

This is a short post after a lot of work.

I have been busy these last few weeks automating the installation of Docker, Traefik, and my Atari blog with Ansible. I have reached the point that I can take a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and end up …Continue reading

2021 - September #25

Docker build

Tech · docker · 2021-09-07 · Daniel

I have been having a rough couple months with printers: My Samsung C410w is getting old, so I wanted to replace it. My wife recently heard about HP Instant Ink, so she wanted to try that service, but I decided to buy a monochrome Brother printer -- which was great except …Continue reading

2021 - August #24

Traefik

Tech · 2021-08-12 · Daniel

Lately I have been learning about Docker, and I want to convert my current setup to Docker, where it makes sense to do that. I currently run about 20 vhosts on this Digital Ocean droplet, and at least one of those has a MySQL back end. I also run Postfix …Continue reading

Retiring my Dell R610

Wall-mount rack

healthchecks.io

Printer update

Update on migration to Docker/Traefik

MinFS

acme.sh and Let's Encrypt certificates

Blog automation

Docker build

Traefik

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