sharkWhat's your self-hosting success of the week?
I’ll go first: I got setup XMPP (Prosody) for the family.
Also, less this week (cheating a little), but I’ve setup all my services with SSL (self-hosted root CA), domain names, and (finally) a dashboard (Heimdall.)
Also, less this week (cheating a little), but I’ve setup all my services with SSL (self-hosted root CA), domain names, and (finally) a dashboard (Heimdall.)
Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.
Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.
On the other hand though, voice and video calls have worked flawlessly.
Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.
We’re on iOS and I wish I could say the same. Looking at the Android apps makes me very jealous.
Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.
What server software are you using? I went with Prosody and it felt pretty easy to setup the muc module for groups, but, on the other hand, I haven’t gotten around to voice and video calls.
Ah, too bad. IMO better clients would make it drastically to convince people to switch.
Hm, I can create groups (also on a muc subdomain), and the other members are added, but writing a message triggers “x left the group” for everyone. Dunno. Probably something trivial I overlooked. But honestly… Weather is too good today to be bothered 😄
Ah, I already had a TURN/STUN coturn server set up for matrix and jitsi, so it was just a matter of telling prosody about that. So I cheated a little I guess 😄 Here is my full config for that, in the unlikely event that you’re using NixOS.
Are you using sturn/turn server? Almost always needed for calls and video, you should join prosody support channel that are really helpful xmpp:[email protected]?join
EldarothNice, had my XMPP server now running for a couple of weeks, not many users on it so far though. But my highlight of the week was managing to get the slidge whatsapp bridge with Prosody running, so I at least don’t have to use the official app anymore for all those people who resist to get off of it.
I’m curious what alternative to Pi-hole you set up. (I’m planning on installing Pi-hole soon but wanna hear all my options)
I have used Adguard Home before. I found it to be very similar to Pi-hole.
I never tried Technitium.
Currently I use Pi-hole with unbound.
I’m redoing everything I have from scratch. This week I have FreeIPA set up from OpenTofu + Ansible configs, and enrolls most of my other servers against FreeIPA. I am still migrating TrueNAS to use FreeIPA’s Kerberos Realm for auth, and I need to chown a lot of files for the new UIDs and GIDs homed in FreeIPA. After that, I’m setting up FreeRadius for auth to switches, APs, and Wifi. And then after that, I’m back to overhauling my k8s stack. I have Talos VMs running but didn’t finish patching in Cilium. And after the real fun begins.
Finally took the time to setup Woodpecker CI to replace Drone. Also finally linked it not only to my self hosted gitea, but also to github, so I can automate a few builds there as well.
In the process I also learned, that I can set up a whole bunch of pods in a single kube definition for podman/quadlets, which allows me to have a much cleaner setup. Previously I was only aware that you can define a single pod with multiple containers. It makes sense, but it never occurred to me before.
I got a test box set up with nixos and a config that runs all of my services. I wanted to test the declarative rebuild promise of it, so I:
And it worked!!! All serviced came back with the data, all configuration was correct.
I’m going to keep testing, and depending on how that goes I may switch my prod server and nas to nixos.
Very cool!
Re: the backup / restore of state in NixOS: I found myself writing the same things over and over again for each VM/service, so finally wrote this wrapper module (in action e.g. here for Jellyfin), which confgures both the backup services and timers, as well as adding a simple rsync-restore-jellyfin command to the system packages. In case you find this useful and don’t already have your own abstractions, or a sufficiently different use case 😄
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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ShimitarI plugged in an NVIDIA gpu in my server and enabled ollama to use it, diligently updated my public wiki about it and now enjoying real time gpt: OSS model responses!
I was amazed, time cut from 3-8 minutes down to seconds. I have a Intel Core7 with 48gb ram, but even an oldish gpu beats the crap out of it.
In that same vein I got an AMD Pro V620 32GB off ebay and have been struggling to get it to POST on my x570 motherboard, but I finally tried it on my old ASUS b450-i with a Ryzen 5 2400GE and with a few BIOS setting changes it fired right up.
Now I need to figure out what I’m doing wrong on the x570 board so I can run the V620 combined with my 9060XT for bigger models
What GPU and model you use?
This week I saw my 3 machine cluster flailing trying to stay online, digging around identified it as an issue with communication with my NAS. It was running NFS3 and so I swapped that to NFS4.1 and did some tuning and now my services have never been faster!
The table (dm) might finally make the switch from roll20 to foundry for a campaign!
I have tried out Openclaw in a container, and it wasn’t hard at all.
All the warnings of danger are right, though. But if anything goes wild, I still know how to delete a container :-)
sorghumThe nextcloud AIO instance that hadn’t been working since September suddenly started working after I updated it. This was all after their forums did fuck all to help except tell me to get gud. I knew the problem wasn’t on me or my config and I feel so vindicated
Have you had a look at opencloud? Not many addons, but simple-ish cloud drive and docs and such. Does not use many resources.
ragingHungryPandaI got gitea running on my VPs cluster that I use to host keyboard vagabond services. I moved my repository from my home PC into it, and set up an action runner to automate a build and deploy of piefed, so it runs my build script, pushes to harbor registry (internal), and then deletes and recreates a job to run db migrations and restarts the web and worker pods.
I’m going to migrate the other build services to it as well, and after that I should be able to finally get all of my services behind cloud flare tunnels and tail scale, and finally remove the last bits of ingress-nginx. The registry was the only thing still on ingress-nginx because I needed to push larger image files than are permitted by cloud flare. since all of that is internal now, I get to finally seal those bits off.
The build is also faster some I don’t have to rely on wifi
I got Terminus for the TRMNL set up using Podman on my server running NixOS.
Although I’m actually planning on replacing Terminus with my own simple server app that way it can be even more declarative (no Postgres database of devices/users/screens) and easier for me to customize. The API I’ll have to implement is extremely straightforward, so I don’t anticipate it taking too long.
philanthropicoctopusAll of my apps are running without issue. First time in months
Decided to buy a raspberry pi, it arrived, I installed pihole on it and put it into my dad’s house, all in a few days. Biggest win: I just took action and did it, instead of researching, brainstorming and writing down stuff for weeks and then never execute.
Hum. I’ve been smooth sailing for a while now. I’ve tried installing OwnTracks again and made some progress by figuring out cloud flare tunnels are a problem (at least the way I configured them).
New to MQTT. So the app still doesn’t work properly but now I have an idea why and I’m not just banging my head on the wall anymore.
Still waiting for my success. Pihole randomly doesn’t answer DNS requests in time, causing a lot of trouble between my services. It’s happening since I switched to dnsmasq in opnsense (which is upstream for my local domain for Pihole), but also for external domains. Can’t nail it down and am this short of reconsidering my whole network setup. It used to work fine for over a year though…
Opnsense dnsmasq is DHCP for my servers and also resolves them as local hosts. (e.g. server1.local.domain) and Pihole conditionally forwards there. Since the issue is also when resolving external domains, it shouldn’t be related, but the timing is suspicious. I also switched the general upstream DNS.
Pihole does have some logs indicating too many concurrent requests, but those are not always correlating with the timeouts.
I know it’s DNS, I just don’t know where yet.
Is dnsmasq rate limiting tbe pi’s IP? Or is opnsense intercepting port 53 outbound and sending it to dnsmasq anyway so all pi DNS queries are being resolved in dnsmasq?
BasicallyHedgehogI’ve been running all my apps on my NAS as docker containers, but some get ‘stuck’ occasionally, requiring a reboot of the whole machine. Using the NAS was mostly out of convenience.
I also had an old laptop running k3s, hosting a few stateless services.
This week I picked up three Wyse 5070 devices and started setting up a more permanent Kubernetes cluster. I decided to use Talos Linux, which is a steep learning curve, but should hopefully reduce the amount of ongoing work for upgrades. I’ll be deploying everything with FluxCD this time around too.
I’ve stumbled a bit with the synology-csi-driver. It didn’t work with Talos out of the box, but turns out the latest commits have a fix. The only thing remaining before I can start porting the apps over is figuring out how to spin up a new CA and generate client certificates for mTLS. I currently do that in Vault but it seems like something cert-manager could handle going forward.
funkajunk 🇨🇦I also just setup a cluster using Talos!
I’ve never used kubernetes before, but decided it was time to learn so I picked up 4x HP EliteDesk Mini systems and dove in.
Following this post I installed paperless. It’s amazing.
💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx - feddit.org
It’s perfect! Do you guys already do this? I open a letter, I take it’s picture with FairScan [https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fairscan.app]. The FairScan-folder on my android device gets syncthinged [https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork] to the ingest folder for Paperless-ngx on my “server”. Paperless imports it, deletes the file and sets the new documents tag to inbox. I decide if the document goes to the binder for important stuff, or if I just toss it in a binder with all the paper I most likely will never touch again. Next time I look at Paperless, I edit all documents with the inbox tag and remove the tag.
My servers are up
I already had Keycloak set up, but a few services don’t support OIDC or SAML (Jellyfin, Reposilite), so I’ve deployed lldap and connected those services and Keycloak to it. Now I really have a single user across all services
how did tou migrate your existing accounts to this system? or did you just make a new account?
I recreated the Keycloak account from LDAP, and then manually patched the databases for all OIDC-based services to the new account UUID, so the existing accounts are linked to the new Keycloak account.
I have two Keycloak accounts, one in the master realm for administrative purposes, and one in the apps realm for all my services, so I didn’t break access to Keycloak
SynapseReconnected my light switches to home assistant. I just had to press the pairing button on the device again for some reason. But it’s inside de Switch box in the wall, not so practical. I wich they thought of another way to put the device in pairing mode, like switch one-off 10 times, something like that.
Managed too get stoat working over I2P.
proxmox backups fixed!
copyparty is really REALLY cool.
self hosted gitea was much easier than expected.
jellyfin updated to latest.
fixed habitica issues (gotta have my goddamn checkmarks!)
self hosted ntfy ssh login scripts EVERYWHERE
i said fuck NUT and passed battery backup straight to truenas VM, the graphs are beautiful.
ive decided that a rclone docker set up to serve webdav will be a tool i keep on all lxcs, for moving shit around easier. turn it on, move the stuff, turn back off. (i can SCP with the best of them but this is so much easier)
i want a self hosted CA 😭😭😭
copyparty is really REALLY cool. (i use the phi95 theme)
Wow. That’s amazing!
i want a self hosted CA
It’s totally worth it. I was putting it off for a very long time, but it was actually kind of easy.
Here’s what I went with: github.com/tgangte/LocalCA. I don’t know anything about VaulTLS though.
looks cool! I’ll check it out later!
here’s what i had tried a little
Finally got the time to set up OpenCloud. It is a pain in the ass to wade through their convoluted clusterfuck of compose files, but it is worth it! Sometime next week I’ll refactor my current deployment. If I deem it fine, I might post it here for others to reference.
Opencloud was a weird experience for me. Getting it started was great and having all of the options and features available led me to build it bigger than I initially planned. The downfall was it became too slow with everything I wanted to do with it. Could have been my hardware but it became unusable.
Oh yikes! I’ll see how it goes.
Looks like it just have to be like that with all open source projects in this space with a name ending in “cloud” ;)
nfreakManaged to finally get around to self-hosting ntfy, added that to uptime kuma as notifications
experimenting with Checkcle, stood up a invidious instance for funsies (prob will see how much i use it, but might as well)
Less this week: Recently got pangolin up and running and i’m loving it, it’s so seamless and straight forward along with caddy on my other VPS machines.
KushanIt was a couple of weeks ago for me but I managed to get my docker compose script for all my infrastructure cleaned up and all versions of containers are now pinned.
I have renovate set up to open PR’s when a new version is available so I can handle updates by just accepting the PR and it’s automatically deployed to my server.
Nice and easy to keep apps up to date without them randomly breaking because I didn’t know if a breaking change when blindly pulling from latest.
It may not really be selfhosting but, managed to get a live USB with persistence so that i don’t need to carry a laptop around