Homelab. What a glorious timesink!
Earlier I wrote about setting up an OPNsense firewall. As I’m using Google Domains, I wanted to use their DDNS service and have OPNsense control it. Here’s how! Google Domains DDclient Dynamic DNS OPNsense In the Google Domains dashboard, switch to DNS settings: Scroll all down and click Advanced Settings: Manage Dynamic DNS: Give your …
Ich weiß nicht, wie viele physische und virtuelle Firewalls ich in meinem Homelab in den letzten zehn Jahren in Betrieb hatte. Aber es gibt eine, zu der ich immer wieder zurückkehre.Als ich nach Deutschland gezogen bin, war das Setup bei der Deutschen Telekom ungewohnt durch das VLAN. Daher hier die Schritte zum Aufsetzen. OPNsense IPv6 …
Are you ready to continue our first steps in the SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability platform? Let’s start where we stopped previously and add an external node. Click Settings/Manage Nodes and Add Node: I’m using my domain, a good idea is to use your own if you have one, or just www.google.com.A few things to note: IP …
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Change is a process, or so they say.That applies to a homelab.Two weeks ago, I changed my VPN provider and how I use VPN, but I wasn’t happy with the performance.So I kept looking, and I’m now using Mullvad Wireguard qBittorrent Docker. Here’s what I did. Gluetun I moved from OpenVPN to Wireguard, so I …
I deployed SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability (HCO), and now I have started to adjust it.I will show what to do next and explain how to fix possible pitfalls before they start becoming an issue.Again, this is a lab install, but most of the steps apply to production deployments, too. So, let’s call this SolarWinds Hybrid …
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This is a “death by screenshot” style tutorial about a SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability installation.I’m deploying it in my lab, but the steps are the same as in a production environment. Well, besides, you would assign more resources! I deployed a Windows 2022 VM on my NAS with four vCPU, eight gigs of memory, and a …
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In a previous blog post, I deployed a DC but now we’re looking at Homelab Two domain controllers. The problem with only one is that you’ll always see replication errors in the event log. Of course, there’s no partner to replicate. So I’m going to set up a second DC. Both are physical machines, MiniPCs …
The other day, I had the worst customer support experience with a company called NordVPN.I used their service for over a year for pure convenience; a Docker stack for both their VPN service and qBittorrent exists and runs with a single compose deployment. I no longer wanted to deal with this company and started looking …
Let’s do a SQL Server Homelab Deployment!First, we need to deploy a VM on our NAS: It’s a standard Windows Server deployment, and I’m running version 2022.Once the VM is up, I start the SQL Deployment Wizzard and follow the steps on the screen until this one, and select what I need: I stick with …
Since I switched from VMware to Debian, I have struggled to find a proper solution for my KVM backups. I tried hard! A top-rated solution doesn’t like recent Linux kernels. Another one doesn’t support Debian 11. Another one put me into permission hell, and another didn’t even work as the first install requires a server …
