Homelab

  • Homelab Notifications via Pushover

    I often found myself logging in to Uptime Kuma and noticing that something had been offline for a reason or another. This has prompted me to look at a proper notification service for my homelab. What is Pushover? Pushover provides… Continue reading

    Homelab Notifications via Pushover
  • Kea DHCP Opnsense

    Introduction Having moved from ISC to Kea on Opnsense it was a fairly straightforward process although I done it manually. Enabling Kea DHCP Subnets Reservations Continue reading

    Kea DHCP Opnsense
  • Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare and Opnsense

    This is something that wasn’t key for me but since I’ve got it set it up has quickly became one of the most powerful configurations I have done. To start with you’ll need: So, what are the benefits? It’s really… Continue reading

    Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare and Opnsense
  • Proxmox Network Bond with Dell Micro and m.2 expansion card

    The fun begins. I have a Cisco switch that supports LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) and I wanted to try and squeeze every little bit of performance out of my configuration. There is so much more than you can do… Continue reading

    Proxmox Network Bond with Dell Micro and m.2 expansion card
  • Watchtower quick win commands

    I’ve been using Watchtower to manage the updates to my containers via Portainer for a number of months. It works pretty well. I always had to remember to manually tidy up old images once they had been updated, that is… Continue reading

    Watchtower quick win commands
  • Homepage and Nginx

    Having received the this error in Homepage ‘”Host validation failed for: 192.168.0.X:3000. Hint: Set HOMEPAGE_ALLOWED_HOSTS to allow requests from this host.” and having spent time configuring Nginx I realised that I had to whitelist the host. What I was trying… Continue reading

    Homepage and Nginx
  • Nginx Proxy with Proxmox/Adguard and Cloudflare

    I thought that setting up and configuring a reverse proxy would be difficult as I have a fairly complex homelab and network, in actuality it was fairly straightforward. Here some notes that I had to collate. My current setup is… Continue reading

    Nginx Proxy with Proxmox/Adguard and Cloudflare