In this post, we’ll walk through what a Dockerfile is and how to create one following leading industry security best practices including but not limited to multi-stage builds, creating minimal images, use of appropriate instructions to minimize number of layers, linting, what to avoid, and more. …

Disclaimer: Neither the author of this article nor the publication nor the developers of codes used in this article condone or encourage downloading, sharing, seeding, or peering copyright material. International laws prohibit such activities which are illegal. This article serves educational purposes only. Self-hosting complete media stack in your home…

A 2020 look at the free home network solution. — One of the items that has been on my list to implement as part of my 2020 commitment to taking back my digital self has been experimenting with Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi. …

Original article: How to Create a personal cloud at home using Openstack This document shows how to spin up a proof of concept cloud on 3 nodes, using the Packstack installation utility. The…blog.yassinemaachi.com This document shows how to spin up a proof of concept cloud on 3 nodes, using the Packstack installation utility. The hardware configuration used in this guide: 1x Dlink DR-600 router to provide access to and from internet using NAT, Firewall,…

My experience migrating my home lab from Windows Server to TrueNAS — Recently, I decided that I wanted to move away from Google Drive and Google Calendar, primarily for privacy reasons. …

When Heptio was acquired by VMware late last year, I started taking a deep dive into the vSphere ecosystem. I‘ve been running a cluster of three Intel NUCs in my homelab for a while now. They are a great platform to run bare-metal Kubernetes and experiment. The goal was to…

Practical advice and discussion on software & hardware options — Have you ever wanted to replicate a more complex IT environment and your laptop’s CPU, memory, or disk wasn’t enough? …

Topics Covered Proxmox — Framework, Setup pfSense — Interface Management/Assignment, DHCP, OpenVPN Security Onion — Proxmox Bridge Traffic Mirroring, Fullscreen on Proxmox Quick Note upfront This is not a super detailed step-by-step guide. This is more of an explanation of my proxmox/homelab setup. Where ever I gloss over the details of an install or process…

Having TLS Connections to your self-hosted apps that work effortlessly, on any device without having to install a certificate or skip an error message is awesome. On a web-facing reverse proxy, this is usually quite easy to achieve. Not so much on LAN. It is also preferable to have apps…

As a developer you probably will running many apps on one machine, but as times goes on you will kinda hard to maintain apps because maybe some of them has same port which will make a conflict. For example here’s some apps & ports mapped to one domain. | Application…

I have been running a homelab for some time now, and it has taken a few different iterations during its lifespan. It’s grown from a single server setup to a multi-node HA configuration that guzzled power and hard drives using old enterprise machines. Recently I’ve gone through a move and…

Building a homelab can begin with a humble start. You don’t need a giant server rack, but could begin with a single Raspberry Pi! No matter the setup, the process for defining your homelab in code can scale up as your hardware grows. A simple beginning could be to install…

It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to stay up late and write code for fun, but I’d just like to write a post to quickly introduce a little project I’ve been working on called OliveTin. Use cases Give controlled access to run shell commands to less technical folks who…

and emailing yourself the results — Most modern storage mediums (hard drives and solid state drives) have something call S.M.A.R.T. monitoring (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). Basically disks have built in monitoring systems that detect errors and can frequently predict drive failure before any data loss has occurred. This built in monitoring can be much more…

Why build our server? As we all know in this growing world, data is also growing and with the world, our data is also growing. It started with MBs then moved to GBs, and now we are having our know data in TBs. Where do you store all this data? …

Why is it so important to fix goals for your home lab? Goals help you to fix kind of a roadmap. Help to make progress. — Introduction In my previous post — Home Lab or not Home Lab, I explained how the idea to build my lab came to me. I also suggested why this is something that matters and why you too should consider it. In this article, we will discuss how to plan a home…

I’ve been using proxmox for a while now in my homelab as an open-source alternative for a virtualization platform like ESXi. One useful feature in proxmox is the templates which allows us to create a LXC or VM templates that can then be cloned as a starting off point for…

Let’s say you have a couple of servers laying around, a nice internet connection and you also happen to have some websites you want to host somewhere in a somewhat fail-safe manner. You could set up a traditional highly available virtualization cluster with fencing if you have enough nodes (for…

Let’s create our own private Cloud with this deep dive into provisioning resources with Terraform and Docker. Objectives Chances are, if you’re considering building a lab, you already have a purpose in mind. …

Take ownership of your data and your security I’ve been running a home server for several years, and wanted to document my experiences. This will hopefully help others who want to take better control of their own data. …