Welcome to a new series of articles that will take you on a journey to generate beautiful looking dashboards using Grafana. We'll take the readings from the metrics the things in your house are already generating such as your home server, IoT devices (Nest thermostat in my case), pfSense firewall, U...
In order to use ipmitool to gather metrics as part of my Telegraf, Grafana and InfluxDB (TIG) setup (read more about how I set that up here) I needed to find a way give non-root access to run ipmitool.
The solution turned out to be quite simple in the end. Modify a udev rule to give the teleg...
My Windows 10 QEMU guest shut down uncleanly and Windows, being the (un)helpful soul it is decided I needed to boot loop through 'preparing automatic repair' until the end of time. Here's how to fix it...
This guide assumes you are running a Windows guest on a Linux host using libvirt + qemu / k...
A useful feature of Docker that can often be overlooked is its powerful network engine which allows you to manage subnets within the Docker ecosystem. Generally speaking, most people (myself included) will just map internal ports over to the host and use the host's IP address when accessing containe...
Apple. Why must you make the hardware I paid for less and less useful in the name of security? Stop it! It is a tool I require to do my job and perform interactions with other hardware on my network. If I choose to run Java then bloody well let me. I understand the inherent security risks but when...
There might be the odd occasion where you want to know what your drives are up to individually. Enter, dstat. Do follow the link as the site has a plethora of other options to try!
This tool is installable on Debian with apt install dstat and provides a bunch of useful information. You can run...
The aim of this guide will be to show new users of our containers how to get started on the QNAP platform. I will cover how to go about setting up the user and permissions as well as the information you need to enter during each screen of the Container Station wizard. With this guide,...
We would like to announce that we now have a Discord Server! Please come and join us at: https://discord.gg/YWrKVTn
Over the years we've tried various forms of community building from forums to comment sections to IRC. We'd like to invite you to our new Discord server which is replacing Slack f...
Netflix is, in my eyes, a world-leader in video delivery, so I figured if they can use AWS to serve their content, why can't I? I mean, sure, they're an international multi-billion dollar powerhouse, and I am but one man. Still, I thought to myself if anything else, it'd make an interesting case-stu...