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Final bit of cleanup/building in the ol' homelab for today: got the DB backups running through Databasus (the successor to Postgresus), and moved the mini rack off the same switch as the EMC disk shelf.
#homelab #nas

Bad: Managed to lock myself out of root access on my home server.
Good: The command that did it was "usermod -G docker" (the -a is indeed load-bearing for this use case), so I could privilege-escalate my way straight back to root.
Normal #homelab things.

I haven't actually seen a total on bandwidth used on my home network through my ISP for quite awhile.
9.073TB is a fair bit. lol.
tbf: that includes three webcams streaming 24/7 and other image transfers happening regularly.
Hooray for free/discounted unlimited bandwidth.
#Telus #HomeLab

Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeLab and #SelfHosting
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe homelab bot.
Mention it in your homelab or self hosting posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the homelab posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation.

Have been experimenting with #signoz in the #homelab as a possible replacement for #grafana #prometheus

Wooo, I have made many graphs and they look good. Proxmox is now pushing to Influx as well. I still need to get Grafana behind `nginx`, but I can do that later.
#homelab #monitoring #influx

Got a phone interview in a few minutes, but before that: time to make sure backups are still running like their supposed to. Still loving Databasus though I really need to get email notifications setup eventually.
#homelab #database

Finished up getting Telegraf installed on all the VMs and getting the Influx Debian repo mirrored locally. All of the config/install stuff is in Ansible and the deployment went pretty smoothly. I now officially have all of the data coming into Influx which is nice.
#homelab #monitoring

Sigh.
The downside to #digital #sovereignty and #selfhosting all your own data/services in a #homelab is you're really bo…

Finally got the Pihole on 443 behind some nice valid certs. Didn't take too much effort, the longest part was getting the ports set correctly on the Pihole server so it was only listening on localhost. A little `acme.sh` `nginx` later and everything looks good.
#homelab #dns

My second ticket back to root would have been a user-writable shell script that is executed as root once per night for a housekeeping task, but I did not want to wait a night to get back in. And yes, I know that this is bad security - considering I work in IT Security, it's once again a case of "the cobblers kids are barefoot" - but sometimes some unintended break-glass access can be quite helpful. #homelab

Periodic git-extra-commands announcement
#git helper scripts and other git-related resources I've accumulated over the years.
You don't need a ZSH framework to use it - the framework code just adds the repo's bin directory to your PATH automatically.
#git #homelab #selfhosting #sre #devops #swe

I was hoping to get a new macmini to replace #newOldiMac before the summer but there are no refurbished ones in the Canadian Apple Store right now and the wait time on a new one is 12 weeks!
So no point doing that… plus the prices on RAM and SSD upgrades are crazy rn. Maybe the bubble will pop by then and we’ll have a flood of ex-AI gear on the market…
So instead I will focus my homelap on improving our home network situation, getting a couple 10gBT switches and capable router, and running a couple important cables around the house.
Then maybe I will see if I can make some space in our basement wiring closet for another shelf to hold a few old MacBook laptops that I have gathered over the years and see if I can turn them into a ProxMox cluster.
#networking #homelab #macmini #inflation