Sharing some #techjoy for some less than usual technology in my life that bring me joy. Feel free to ask questions if you want to know more about how I set something up, or share your own #techjoy
#techjoy Since the days of Windows Home Server (I wrote a book back then https://a.co/d/bSK2hQn) I have been running a server in the home. After WHS met its rapid demise, I moved things over to run on a variety of VMs - Currently I’m running qemu/libvirt/kvm on Ubuntu 22, and have several VMs running. 1/3
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I have a file server(family photos and persistent backup to cloud), web server, Pi-hole DNS, a Windows VM I can RDP into if I need to run something that can’t run on my Mac, and a couple of VMs to play around with https://chia.net storage-based cryptocurrency. It’s definitely not #homelab quality, but it works. 2/3
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@rickh I have a very similar setup, also some other things like Gitea, Baby Buddy, MonicaPRM and Home Assistant.
Have you implemented SSO? I've seen a lot of options Authelia, Keycloak, Authentik. I still haven't decided.

I think I'm going to try Keycloak mostly because it looks more enterprise-ish.

I also have a guest's captive portal. I have no idea why we don't have a better way to provide one-time access. I tried to create a ghetto solution where I would create QR codes that would take users to a local page that made a POST request to the router with the credentials, but it would only work with Android devices.

@0xjams I haven’t jumped in on SSO, just have manually set up accounts on the various VMs. My router handles captive portal stuff, by I just have an isolated guest network on a timer and a password that I hand out to visitors.
@rickh I might end up just doing that, and creating both NFC tag/QR code for visitors.