Home Automation, Home Servers, self-hosted setups and much more can be done with OpenSource.
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.
Fedora
Virtualization opens a wide variety of possibilities. If you want to test a new OS release or set up some special workload, a Virtual Machine can be used easily.
Linux
Concept done, Hardware done, started with automation and now? Sure, we want to make the new home server manageable. I want to see errors, updates, performance data at a glance and configure some minor things ad-hoc. This article is exactly about this addition to our home server.
Home
In the Fedora - Home Server series, we are looking into setting up and automating our Home Server deployment. The last two articles introduced you to the concept, hardware and operating system. This time, we will set up our automation and do the first tasks.
Home
In a previous article, I started the home server series to explain how you can build your own (Fedora based) home and lab environment. This article will shed some light on the hardware and the basic operating system.
Home
Just a few days ago, somebody reached out to me and asked: Daniel, how do you do your home server? Since this question is not really easy to answer, I will provide a series of articles, that will enable you to set up your own home server.
Fedora
The Fedora project is maintaining different variants of Fedora Linux to fulfil different use cases. The Linux variant provides some features, specialized for servers and headless systems. Let's have a look at Fedora server and see what is different to CentOS Stream, Alma Linux or Fedora Workstation.
Fedora
Fedora Linux is a modern Linux distribution, which can be used on your workstation, server and everything between. It is not very well known, but you can deploy Fedora Linux on your Raspberry Pi, too. Let's see what you get when opting for Fedora.
Fedora
Fedora provides a wide variety of Linux based distributions. In the "Fedora - Overview" article, I provided a brief introduction of the different tases. This article is focused on the newest "Edition" named Fedora IoT. Let's see what it is about and why you should use it for certain use cases.