OS SUPPORT: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS \n \l – Server / Raspberry Pi 4 Pre-Requisites 1 – Update OS and change Host. (root) NOTE: This Config is only on IPv4 if you don’t have a IPV6 Tunnel config. add – irc.testnet.org add – 127.0.0.1 irc.testnet.org 2 – Install (byacc, flex, screen, make, cmake, zip, perl, automake,…
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Replacing Cloudflare Tunnel with Tailscale on a VPS
Why Switch from Cloudflare Tunnels to Tailscale? While Cloudflare Tunnels is a popular choice for opening home networks, Tailscale offers greater control over device access and simplified configuration using WireGuard. With Tailscale on a VPS, you can secure your home network without compromising on security or dealing with port-forwarding and firewall configurations. Prerequisites Tailscale Installation:…
KASM – My main workspace RBI
In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the process of installing KASM, a popular Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) solution, as the main workspace on a home lab using a virtual machine (VM) in Proxmox. This setup will enable you to securely isolate web browsing activities, protecting your network and sensitive data from potential web-based…
Ansible – Make Any Linux Distro Yours Using Ansible
During my consumption of tech YouTube content, I came across a video talking about Ansible Pull. I am familiar with Ansible, so I queue it up. As soon as I finished the video this project came to mind. I know a lot of Linux desktop users use git to store their rc files and config…
Cronjobs – Reboot schedule
So because one of my VMs was acting up (due to a lot of transcoding on my media server) when not rebooting for a long period, I had to look for a cronjob format that would help with this issue. I’d use cron (should already be installed): The first time you might have to choose…
My new favorite HomeLab Dashboard – Homarr
Before diving into the tutorial, let me explain a bit about Homarr. As of my last update, Homarr is a web application that allows users to control and manage smart home devices. It’s often deployed using Docker, a containerization platform, and Portainer, a user-friendly Docker management tool. The process typically involves setting up containers, configuring…
The Ultimate Home Lab Monitoring Setup – Prometheus + Grafana
After avoiding and putting this off for months now, I finally decided to set this up and I must say, I was a bit silly to even fear this. The only reason I didn’t want to get into it was that I felt it was going to be tedious and hard to maintain, but to…
Tutorial for ProxMox E-Mail Alerts
Setting up alerts in Proxmox is critical to making sure you are notified if something goes wrong with your servers. It’s so easy, I should have done this years ago! In this tutorial, we’ll set up email notifications using SMTP with Gmail or G Suite that send email alerts when there are disk errors, ZSF…
Tired of being prompted for a password on sudo? Same!
The preferred way to grant individual (or group) permissions would be to add files under /etc/sudoers.d This separates local changes from the default policy and saves time in case the distribution sudoers file changes. To make the currently logged-in user a sudoer and sudo not prompt them for a password, use this will create a file called /etc/sudoers.d/$USER (where $USER is…
Passthrough for HDD/SSD/Physical disks to VM on Proxmox VE(PVE)
1 Install lshw on PVE 1.1 Bring up the terminal from PVE directly or via SSH or by using “Shell” from PVE web GUI 1.2 Enter the following command to install lshw 2 Check & note down details about physical disks we want to passthrough 2.1 Using the following command We should use disk by…