My personal blog

This blog describes my (sometimes very rocky) journey on the way to implementing my Homelab. I don’t have any preferences, but rather put it together part by part and draw inspiration from various sources.

I describe the individual steps to reach my goal and also try to document the problems I encountered along the way, including the solution, as best I can. This serves as a reference for me, but also for anyone working on similar projects.

Recipes

• Use Docker context command to control a remote docker daemon
• Add non root user on docker host and enable ssh access
• Use of scripted docker-compose.yml files disaster safety
• SSH TCP Forwarding to access services from the remote servers network
• USB over TCP

Ideas for the future

• Disable sudo password for specific user (https://askubuntu.com/questions/147241/execute-sudo-without-password)
• Share the hosts ssh key with the dev container
  • ssh-add -l

  • https://code.visualstudio.com/remote/advancedcontainers/sharing-git-credentials

        # Make sure you're running as an Administrator
        Set-Service ssh-agent -StartupType Automatic
        Start-Service ssh-agent
        Get-Service ssh-agent
    

• Use of scripted docker-compose.yml files to be able to restore the entire Docker container in the event of a disaster
• Automate backup and restore
• Use watchtower to auto update the docker containers
• Use pihole as a DNS server and also as ad blocker
• Use traefik as a reverse proxy
• Use authentik for user authentication
• Host a bitwarden instance