I use syncthing to copy data to a couple remote synology servers and my relatives house which provides an off-site copy of my important data, following the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Export existing a...

I have been running TrueNAS for years as my main homelab NAS. When TrueNAS Scale came out with integrated k3s for applications, I was intrigued about the new app model combined with the migration t...

I have been using Let’s Encrypt to create certs for my internal services, including my self-hosted gitlab server, for quite a while. I had been using an ansible playbook by Bendews to create Lets E...

I recently moved some core services to LXC Containers. During that migration, I discovered a super easy to use NGINX Proxy app called NGINX Proxy Manager. This service is very similar to traefik. W...

I have been looking for a more stable way to run several core applications in my homelab. Previously I have used TrueNAS + Truecharts. However this setup has become very time consuming to manage wi...

I have been wanting to setup an avenue for exposing select homelab services externally without opening holes in my firewall. In comesCloudflare Tunnels (formerly Argo Tunnels). I have used Cloudfla...

I have been using Terraform personally and professionally for years. It is a great IaC tool to simplify management of systems and services. I redesigned my homelab several years ago when learning ...

In Part 1 resources were created to host the Jekyll site in S3 using Terraform Now let’s setup the git repo and gitlab server to automatically push changes to the site to S3. Setup git repo Step...

I am a huge fan of terraform. I use it quite a lot at my day job as an Infrastructure Engineer. I’ve also wanted to learn more about using Gitlab’s CI/CD processes. Hosting a blog in S3 and control...