My homelab computers
I have 4 computers at home that each have their own use.
I have a desktop that I built in 2016/11 that is my main computer and which I use the most and code from.
I also have a HP Probook 6570b which is my laptop …
read morePlaying with draw.io diagrams
Draw.io is nice!
It's a program that make nice diagrams and so many other things.
Works OK in a browser, on desktops and it's cross platform.
I've seen many nice network diagrams on /r/homelab and saw draw.io recommended in the comments.
Running it locally
There's a handy …
read moreReleasing Dilbert scraper's docker image
Dilbert.com scraper
I wrote a dilbert.com comics scraper in bash about 3 years ago because I really love Dilbert comics.
While I assume people will scream if they look at the code in dilbert.sh and date generator python script, they have worked fairly reliably for 3 years …
read moreUpgrading to Debian Buster
First impressions
I've been running Debian systems at home for about 3+ years.
I really like the distribution for the package availability and quality.
Buster(Debian 10) comes with kernel 4.19, which is a long term release(LTS) kernel.
On kernel.org, it's said to be supported until December …
read morePihole Custom Domain Config
Running Pihole at home
I run pihole via docker on an old laptop.
Pihole Docker container as DHCP and DNS server
I got it configured via the pihole docs.
To see my ansible playbook that works with Pihole and is run via compose, look at this playbook.
I had to …
read moreRunning Docker-compose from Ansible playbooks
Running Docker-compose from Ansible playbooks
On my home devices, I run and maintain my docker containers(ct-s with my Ansible playbooks.
But why use Docker-compose and not Docker Swarm or Kubernetes
Because I only have four devices that I run docker ct-s on, and each serve a dedicated function at …
read morePlaying around with Gitlab.com's CI and Docker Registry
Dabbling with Gitlab
I've got a Gitlab Community Edition(CE) instance running at home with 3 runners on separate devices.
I'd like to say I've become familiar with the basics of Gitlab's ci, however I haven't done much with the continuous delivery part.
What I'd like to do with the …
read moreSecond blog post
Second blog post
For the time being this site will be hosted on netlify, at https://blog.richardskumat.com.
A fun project would be to setup the blog subdomain to automatically fail over to either Github or Gitlab pages if Netlify's servers were down or if they terminated my account …
read moreFirst blog post
First blog post
This is the first blog post to see how the new blog will look.
The blog posts will be written in Markdown and published with Pelican.
To-do:
- Settle on a theme
- Settle on a site structure
- Setup CI/CD and decide which host to use(leaning towards …
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