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DevOps
Gitea vs GitLab: Which one for Home Lab?
If you are looking for a self-hosted git solution that will allow you to host your own git repositories, there are probably two solutions that you will see come up on every Reddit thread and blog post that you land…
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DevOps
Gitea Install with Drone CI CD Server Self-Hosted Git
I have been using GitLab for ages now, and I am very familiar with it. However, one thing I haven’t been happy about with GitLab is the solution’s performance. It feels very laggy and bloated at times. In all fairness…
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Software Defined Storage
GlusterFS vs Ceph: Two Different Storage Solutions with Pros and Cons
I have been trying out various storage solutions in my home lab environment over the past couple of months or so. Two that I have been extensively testing are GlusterFS vs Ceph, and specifically GlusterFS vs CephFS to be exact,…
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VMware
Broadcom Bringing back VMware vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus!
Wow, it has been a wild ride with VMware by Broadcom over the 2024 year with so many sweeping changes in portfolio simplification and licensing changes. However, I don’t have to write about how this has not been taken well…
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Containers
5 Docker Update Image Tools to Keep Images Up to Date
If you are running Docker containers in your environment, you are probably interested in knowing how to keep lifecycle management of your container images and docker update image tasks. There are actually a few tools that I want to show…
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Containers
Docker Prune Automating Cleanup Across Multiple Container Hosts
If you run many Docker hosts or multiple hosts in a Swarm cluster, if you are updating and respinning your containers (and you should be), you will have space accumulated on your Docker hosts from things like old container images,…
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home lab
Netdata Docker Monitoring for Home Lab
I have been playing around with a lot of Docker monitoring solutions to monitor my critical Docker containers. There are many great open source solutions you can use for Docker monitoring, including cAdvisor and Node Exporter which I have written…
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Kubernetes
Configuring Kubernetes High Availability with Microk8s
If you are looking for an easy way to have a Kubernetes High Availability cluster for your API server and control plane, Microk8s makes this very easy with the deploy of three or more nodes. You can just make sure…
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VMware
VMware vCenter Server VMSA-2024-0019 Critical Vulnerability Patch Released
Well, it seems like the vulnerabilities for vCenter Server and other vSphere components never end. There is a new security advisory that actually helps to continue to close off a vulnerability showcased at a Chinese hacking contest. While VMware released…
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Software Defined Storage
Ceph Dashboard Configuration for Storage Health Metrics
If you are using Ceph storage either in Proxmox or using Ceph storage in vanilla Linux outside of Proxmox, you likely want to have a way to see the health of your Ceph storage environment. Setting up a Ceph dashboard…
