This is part of my Home Lab guides. I am installing MariaDB on Debian Bookworm running inside a LXC container managed by Incus. Install MariaDB First we will launch a Linux Container running the d...

In this guide I am setting up an Incus container for SMTP using Debian Bookworm. I will be installing Postfix for SMTP and OpenDKIM for signing emails. This is to setup an SMTP outbound server that...

With this guide you will learn how to make Docker run inside an lxc container using Incus. This uses new functionality in ZFS and Incus (originally introduced in LXD 5.17). ZFS 2.2 introduced Linux...

I decided that I wanted to configure my own router without using something like OPNsense. I wanted to do it with iproute2, nftables, frrouting, unbound, and kea. Kea was something I only discovered...

I recently gained access to a /48 IPv6 prefix for my connection. I previously had access to a /56 on my old ISP but their implementation of IPv6 is terrible and the /56 was not statically assigned ...

I recently got hold of a mini PC with a Nvidia GPU and wanted to get hardware transcoding working with Jellyfin in an LXD container. I have previously done this on my existing mini PC that only has...

With the recent release of the official HAProxy bouncer for Crowdsec I thought I would give it a go. In doing this I found out that CrowdSec bouncer was detecting the IP using source IP, which requ...

I recently had to configure BGP on 2 pairs of Aruba CX switches configured as VSX pairs. Requirements To follow this setup completely you will need: ExpressRoute Circuit configured with ISP ...

Paperless-ngx now has inbuilt support for this, so you can ignore this entirely. When I am deciding on web services to use on my home lab, I lean towards ones that support SSO. I do this because ...

This is an explanation of my HAProxy config, as a reminder for myself. This has evolved over time. Most recently I have added a redirection for external or internal traffic to backends. The reason ...