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Teachings from years of HomeLab (blog.cloudhub.social)
submitted 6 months ago by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

A slightly less technical post - these are some things I've learned from having a HomeLab for over a decade.

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Teachings from years of HomeLab (blog.cloudhub.social)

Starting a new Cloud/HomeLab blog at this domain - let me know if you want a contributor invite!

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Fediverse Apps on Kubernetes? (lemmy.cloudhub.social)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cloudhub.social/post/347779

I am running a Kubernetes cluster for this domain, and I'm looking at more services to run (right now I have Mastodon and Lemmy).

I was considering WriteFreely and PixelFed, but they don't seem to have an easy solution for running on Kubernetes (WriteFreely doesn't even have a production-ready docker image).

Is anyone else running federated services in their lab? Do you run any of them on Kubernetes?

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Fediverse Apps on Kubernetes? (lemmy.cloudhub.social)

I am running a Kubernetes cluster for this domain, and I'm looking at more services to run (right now I have Mastodon and Lemmy).

I was considering WriteFreely and PixelFed, but they don't seem to have an easy solution for running on Kubernetes (WriteFreely doesn't even have a production-ready docker image).

Is anyone else running federated services in their lab? Do you run any of them on Kubernetes?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/homelab@lemmy.cloudhub.social

Reposting some of my older popular blog posts. This one is probably out of date, I doubt the configuration examples still work as they did back in 2020.

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Internal SMTP relay? (lemmy.cloudhub.social)

I have a need for an internal SMTP relay inside a kubernetes cluster. What is everyone using for docker/kubernetes SMTP relays these days?

Goal is to have all internal services route emails through this relay and it in turn sends the emails out via SendGrid, should be a fairly easy task, just not something I've done for a few years.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/homelab@lemmy.cloudhub.social

Hey all! We're back after a couple of weeks of downtime on Lemmy due to some DB migration issues + Kubernetes liveness timeouts, and general lack of time to troubleshoot. For the latest status, you can view the status page for the cluster here: https://cloudhub-social.github.io/Status/

We are also well overdue for a What's in Your Homelab for the month of August, so we'll use this post for that as well!

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Since it's been about a month since the last post, it's time for another one!

"What's in your homelab?" (July 2023)!

This could be anything from hardware to software to things your running in the cloud (#cloudlab).

Hardware and diagram pics are always welcome!

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When the following is true:

  • User attempts to create an account
  • Instance has "require registration application" enabled
  • Instance's email is not working/unavailable

the application seems to get lost, the user never receives an email (even after email functionality is restored), nor can that email/username be used going forward to re-submit the account creation request.

Additionally, since the user never verifies their email, the instance admin never gets a registration application.

It's not currently an issue for me, however, would it be possible to delete these ghost users? If you lookup the profile/username in the database, you can view it via the web UI, but the only options appear to be either blocking the user or banning them. It might be good to be able to completely delete the accounts, no?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/sysadmin@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cloudhub.social/post/14149

What's everyone using for status monitoring and/or status pages either in their lab or at work?

I setup a status page for my fediverse instances using Uptime Robot (have an existing subscription), and the features are kinda lacking. I feel like they haven't really updated anything in the last 5 years which is unfortunate.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/homelab@lemmy.cloudhub.social

What's everyone using for status monitoring and/or status pages either in their lab or at work?

I setup a status page for my fediverse instances using Uptime Robot (have an existing subscription), and the features are kinda lacking. I feel like they haven't really updated anything in the last 5 years which is unfortunate.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/espresso@infosec.pub

Title - I'm using lactose free milk right now, but I'm wondering if there are any good milk-free alternatives? I tried using Silk's barista almond milk, but it's sour after being frothed?

Edit: I guess I'll have to try some oat-based alternatives, maybe the problem is with the almond milk.

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 9 points 1 year ago

Did he get caught editing comments again? And the shadowbanning?

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 6 points 1 year ago

I love this for you - let me just make sure my instance is set to not allow sign-ups lol

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've started just posting anything that seems interesting while trying not to flood the place. I'm pretty deep into the tech world so it's been mostly tech, but I'd highly recommend posting content that interests you and I'm sure it'll interest others.

If you're using a lemmy web interface (as opposed to an app), there is a cross-post button you can use to post in other communities that are tanginately related (if you decide to create a community for your topics).

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 10 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but I think all instances linked there are going to see high load over the next while. We shall see how the network stands up...

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 13 points 1 year ago

Oh, I've been creating a lot of tech content, like my old days on Reddit. These days I mostly lurk on LGTQ subreddits though and idk how the Lemmy community feels about that (not that I have much to post in that regards anyways, link/forum wise)

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 11 points 1 year ago

I think for me it’s going to be hit or miss. Right now I’m on this more, but it doesn’t have a lot of the content I’m interested in currently.

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 5 points 1 year ago

Lots of Proxmox users here! That's good to see. I'm also running Proxmox after using ESXI in my lab for a few years. Too expensive.

Around 40TB of storage space, of which I’m using roughly 1%. I’m not even a datahoarder, I’m just a storage space hoarder.

Save some for the rest of us, eh?

Sounds like a pretty solid setup!

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have an older R710 running TrueNAS right now with 1tb of (usable) flash storage and 10Gb connection the to the rest of my lab.

I have another TrueNAS instance running as a Proxmox VM with a Lenovo SA120 DAS attached to it, which has 2x 10Tb drives in mirror mode for mass storage. It's also technically connected via 10Gb to the rest of my lab.

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 10 points 1 year ago

I’d probably call this niche of fediverse apps “fediverse link aggregators”. Their UI really only makes them useful for that at the moment (IMO - haven’t tried kbin), and you can technically follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon if you want (it’s not a great UX), but you don’t get the aggregation doing that. At least not without sorting down to just that view.

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've opened some pull requests on the main app repo and the docs repo with changes that should fix the docker install issues people have been having.

Specifically: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2908 / https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/pull/186

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 8 points 1 year ago

People in the Lemmy matrix chat are working on a new Android app (not sure if it’s a redsign of Jerboa or a new app though).

[-] jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social 8 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that a lot of VPS hosts have rules against hosting NSFW content, and they have to be strictly moderated (hopefully for obvious reasons…).

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