August 6 2025
- Transfered from Authentik to AuthentiKate. My own OIDC solution for homelabbers.
August 4 2025
- Started building out a pipeline for me to build docker containers for my own apps using gitea actions. Built a custom docker image for the runner
August 2 2025
- Deployed a gitea action runner to the lab so my friend and I can load balance.
July 20 2025
- Set up a cron job to back up my postgres instance to a backups folder on my NAS. Back up every hour and retain backups from the last 72 hours.
July 19 2025
- Deployed n8n
- Got rid of Tianji in favor of Umami. I like apps that do one thing really well. Tianji is a great app but not what I wanted.
July 17 2025
- Deprecated Kan in favor of Planka
- Deprecated NocoDB. Used to use it to document my homelab layout but now it's all self documenting with Ansible.
- Deprecated Erugo. Cool idea but doesn't work that well for my needs. I'm already hosting it so having to upload to my own network just to share a file didn't make sense. I'll just use FileBrowser, point it to a folder in my NAS, upload it there and just share the file that way.
- Deprecated Reubah. Excited to see where this project goes, but for now CloudConvert will do just fine since I don't have to convert files that often.
July 12-13 (Stayed up late)
Added Grafana, Prometheus and node exporter to most of my hosts. I need to start having some observability in this lab without having to jump around 3 different UIs and SSH into servers.
July 11 2025
Apps added
- GhostCMS: Moved my personal site from a static site generator to a full on CMS. I wanted to start posting content more often and a static site generator was just a bit inconvenient for me.
- Outline Wiki: My friend and I have been looking for an internal documentation solution for our projects for a bit. After a lot of searching and trying out different ones we landed on outline. It's like confluence without all the bloat.
July 8 2025
Apps added
- Komga: Ebook library
July 7 2025
Apps added
- FileBrowser: For the opposite reason as DumbDrop. I can upload a file to a folder in my NAS, then go get a shareable link that I can send to my friends. This way I'm only limited by my internal network speed as opposed to the upload speed of my ISP.
- Kan.bn: I've been looking for a trello alternative for a bit. Let's see how this one pans out.
July 6 2025
Caddy changes
Moved caddy from OPNSense plugin to two caddy instances in VMs.
This is easier to manage through ansible and more secure since I can now separate my internal and external proxies.
I can also generate the caddy config by passing variables to a jinja template.
Apps added
- Tianji: The all in one app for analytics, uptime status monitoring, and server monitoring. Will be trying it out for a few days and see if I keep it or just move to separate apps for each feature.
- DumbDo: To-do list by dumbware.io
- DumbDrop: File upload by dumbware.io. Makes it really easy to point it to a folder on my NAS so my friends can just upload any files they want to share directly to me.
- StirlingPDF: Just a banger PDF manipulation webapp.
July 4 2025
Apps added
- Erugo: Wetransfer alternative
- Vaultwarden: Password manager. Bitwarden back end.
Also made myself an ansible role to create a folder in a mounted nfs share for any docker containers that need to keep some static files. That way I can easily back everything up from a central place.