Homelab Changelog

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.