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Fedora - Home Server (Time, DHCP, DNS Server 1/2)

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?

Linux

Containers - Behind the curtain

Containers are these fancy new thingies (technical term), that are made to make our lives as developers and operators easier. Or aren't they? This article shows what a container really is and why cgroups and the Linux Kernel are an elemental part of it.

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Podman - Local Container Registry

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

Fedora - Home Server (Container)

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.

Podman

Podman - Graphical Interfaces (for Terminal, Desktop and Server)

It may be a surprise to you, but I am a huge fan of Podman. Recently, there is lots of development for Desktop integration, but there are also graphical tools for the browser or Command Line. If you want to manage your images and containers with in a graphical way, this article may be for you.

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Container - Smaller Images

Building your own containers is very easy and fast to learn. But very soon, you may end up with large container images and no idea how to reduce the footprint. Since you need to download and store each image, it can be useful to minimize the images, and this article will address exactly this.

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Podman - Compose

Over the last weekend, I was hanging around in the Podman Matrix chat and was seeing lots of conversation regarding Podman and Docker Compose. So, let's dig into Podman Compose and why you don't need a Kubernetes Cluster/Instance for Container orchestration.

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Fedora - Home Server (Hardware & OS)

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.

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Fedora - Home Server (Intro & Concept)

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.

Spotlight

Spotlight - Cirrus CLI (with Podman)

Cirrus CLI is a tool for running containerized tasks reproducibly in any environment. Most commonly, Cirrus tasks are used as part of continuous integration workflows but can also be used as part of local development process as a hermetic replacement of helper scripts/Makefiles.

Podman

Podman - Machine (Podman on macOS)

You want to use Podman, but you are on a Mac? Podman Machine may be something you are interested in. It is the built-in way to run Podman in a virtual machine on your Workstation.

Linux

Spotlight - Cockpit Project

Linux is about "using the terminal", right? Maybe not. Cockpit provides an option, so you can operate your GN/Linux based operating system, even if you don't know the correct commands for many tools.

Fedora

Fedora - Minikube

Before digging into Kubernetes, you will need a minimal Kubernetes Setup. Such a setup should spin up fast, should work like a real cluster, and hopefully integrate well in other tools. For me, Minikube fulfills these needs, and you can run it on Fedora, too.

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Podman - Setup Gitea

Running your own Git server for your project, private work or your company is very common. With Podman and Gitea, you can get things going in minutes. In this guide, I will demonstrate how you can set up your own Gitea instance on Podman, including auto-start and auto-updates.

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Podman - Auto Updates

Containers made it very easy to package and run applications on different Linux based platforms. Building and running a container can be done in seconds and is easy to reproduce. But what about updating the running containers on a regular basis?

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Podman - Secrets

Podman is an awesome tool to build, manage and share container workloads. Sometimes you also need to store a password for your container or manage secret tokens. With Podman 3.1.0 a feature was released that helps to manage container secrets with Podman.