9. Putting old Raspberry Pis to good use

   Update to this post

   I put my Raspberry Pi2 to use by installing Retropie on a functioning SD card.

   The issues I mention below were most likely due to failing/corrupt sd cards.

   Why use a Raspberry pi at all?

   They're great devices for learning a different operating system when …

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10. Trying out old CentOS images

    Trying out the oldest available CentOS images

    I use Debian all the time, however I also like CentOS for a couple of reasons.

    It's nice that Yum/DNF has transaction history and the ability to undo/redo a certain installation/removal of packages.

    What is however great is the longer …

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11. Migrating from OVH Pro Email to Gsuite

    Migrating email from one service to another

    I'm currently working on migrating from OVH's pro email service to Gsuite.

    Experience with OVH's mail service

    My monthly cost with OVH's service has been £2.49 since last year.

    I've started using Mail Pro since end of September last year.

    From my …

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12. Servers and clients in my homelab

    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 …

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13. Playing 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 …

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14. Releasing 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 …

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15. Upgrading 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 …

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16. Pihole 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 …

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17. Running 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 …

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18. Playing 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 …

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