Hashicorp

There’s a lot of potential apps to host in a homelab. I’ve started investigating which ones to deploy first! Also some info on getting Ceph and Proxmox up and running at home. I was hitting all kind of ceph “OSD” delays when working on things in my Proxmox cluster. Stumbled upon this gem pointing out that the Proxmox kernel has old Solarflare drivers that may affect Ceph performance. No delays since! With the storage working, I decided to start bind mounting my CephFS mounts in Proxmox LXC containers. Some useful dotfile for setting up a fresh Linux install. Askbot is an open source take of StackOverflow that you can host at home. Polr is a neat looking link shortener. Cachet is an open source status page you can self-host. Plex added support for Tidal, an interesting merging of home and cloud media streaming. Ceph has “S3” support via their RadosGW. Next Ceph project will be to configure that, and see how performance works with “Goofys” as a file-system on S3. Hashicorp Vault is on my to-do list, came across some videos from Hashiconf. Some performance testing of different Kubernetes plugins running on hosts with 10G network interfaces.

I had all kinds of ceph osd issues in my lab this week. Spend most of that identifying bad/failing hardware. It seems to be more stable now so I can get back to testing! Links for this week: A list of available online tech classes from Universities. Ouroboros keeps popping up in my feeds, it uses python to update your running docker containers. I can never call out linuxserver.io enough, they have some really solid docker images and may deploying new apps to my Homelab a breeze! Ansible 2.7.1 was released, looks like a lot of bug fixes, also changed some things with the yum modules, specifically how it handles lists (threw off one of my playbooks when i upgraded to 2.7). A guide to running AWX (Ansible Tower upstream) on MiniShift. Which leads into the next link.. I was referencing this guide to using Kubespray for a mini lab project (AWX runs on Kubernetes too). Jeff Geerling wrote up a quick article about using Molecule for Ansible role testing. It even has some tidbits about using TravisCI. I referenced this when adding testing to my package role to get that cool “build passing” badge on GitHub. Just need to hit the others now. All the Ansible testing focus lately is coming from the updates about to roll out on Ansible Galaxy, they’re previewing the new features now. Hashicorp released some documentation on secrets management, it’s very clean and well put together. Dell recently released a new version of OpenManage Enterprise, it’s a pretty convenient way for me to manage the dell hardware in my home lab (firmware, logs, console). I recently for an iPhone XR for work and took some pictures with it, they look pretty great! I’m gonna go back to tinkering with this new iPhone, have a safe and fun Halloween!