Home Automation, Home Servers, self-hosted setups and much more can be done with OpenSource.
Podman
Podman is the daemonless, rootless drop-in replacement for Docker. Furthermore, you can manage containers on a remote machine without connecting to it first. With Podman's remote capabilities, this is just a matter of configuration files.
RaspberryPi
Right after the release of the Raspberry Pi 5, we are getting a new Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian Bookworm. It features some pretty interesting changes on the Desktop, but also got nice features for the Lite variant.
Podman
Podman is the rootless drop-in replacement for Docker, but how do you administer Podman containers, images and more with the browser? Let's check out Cockpit and Podman application for it.
Hardware
Two days ago (28th September 2023), the Raspberry Pi foundation announced the new Raspberry Pi 5. The device should feature double the speed with the new RP1 chip and will be available in for pre-order right now.
IoT
When it comes to IoT/Edge computing, you have to consider one very special paradigm: "Everything is pull-only". Ansible and Podman can make this work, and we can build a device, that is configured via a Git repository.
Kubernetes
In some past articles, I talked about Kubernetes and how to get started. Minikube is awesome for local development, but what about Kubernetes on small environments? k3s is one of the easiest ways to deploy and run a Kubernetes instance, which can also be used to create high available clusters.
Fedora
Our home server can host a couple of applications now. But, remembering the different addresses, ports, and services seems somewhat wrong. In this article, we will solve this situation by deploying a dashboard, that provides links to all our applications.
DIY
This year, I started a very special project for me. During the last couple of years, I tried many keyboards and there was always something. It was too big, too loud, the keyboard layout was odd or whatever. So, I decided to build my own keyboard.
Fedora
In the last article, we created a Git server, running in Podman. The deployment was done with Ansible. The article before was about some central infrastructure. This time, let's see how we can have our own File, Calendar, and Contact sync. Yes, we will deploy Nextcloud!
Fedora
Our Home Server is doing some nice stuff already. With the last articles, I want to demonstrate how you can deploy some useful applications on it. Running your own Git server has some advantages, when it comes to private work or testing.
Fedora
In the last article of our Home Server series, we tackled the deployment of a timeserver. This also provided us with some useful tooling to set up more container deployments. Let's continue on this approach and tackle DNS and DHCP.
Home
Phew, that took a while to get right. I don't want to waste any more of your valuable time. So, let's dig into the deployment of a time, DHCP and DNS server on our home server. Shall we?
Fedora
Running Fedora comes with a new release every 6 months. Furthermore, you are having a somewhat short maintenance time of ~13 months, only. This means, that you need to upgrade your Fedora installation occasionally. Let's see how you can do this.
Podman
If you want to use containers, you need to pull images from a container registry. This is the place where container images live. But, how do you run your own registry? For your local network or development purposes, this is really useful!
Fedora
In the last articles we tackled virtualization, which is perfectly fine, if you want to run full-fledged virtual machines. On the other hand, you can use containers to deploy workloads very easily. So, let's have a look how we can integrate this in our home server.
Fedora
In the previous article, we introduced virtualization to our home server. This allows us to start virtual machines with different operating systems. The combination of libvirt, KVM and Cockpit also allows us to create virtual machines with a graphical frontend.