What app you use to draw topoly?

Awesome video thanks Tim!

FYI . I didn't see nut server in your home assistant services. I use it for the 7 UPS I have running in my home to monitor all of them.

Just why ?

I just make link buttons in homeassistant.

Great video and the other one I look forward to each year. Gives me new ideas to think about. I'll also be buying more lottery tickets this year 😂

I eventually scaled down to my main media server being my container, a dedicated NAS server, and moved away from vms with a 1-2-3 back solution for data to consolidate hardware, heat, power, and equipment. As for additional nodes I went with a few pi’s and mini pcs.

I have many implementations of GitOps with Docker Compose. Currently using Actions to trigger an Ansible playbook with some variables like what docker compose file and mapping that to a host, and it SSH's into the target machine and git pulls and docker compose up -d on the correct compose file and returns all the logs in the actions workflow.

I have gone through this twice and at the step where you start patroni and the HA cluster nodes 2 and 3 specifically have been unable to start postgres stating "data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" has invalid permissions" when I run journalctl -u patroni -f

Yo Tim, imma need you to help me re-design my home-lab architecture.

Oh my giddy aunt! This is the military equivalent of plating your bullets with silver and gold. Just embarrassing.

It is funny that he keep saying that "now the database domt need to leave in disk"; where does postgres and mariadb save the data if not on disk 🤔. I think he meant "not on a single file"

Do you get out of the house ever? Holy shit how many services to worry about🤦‍♂️

33:19 wasnt gravity sync archive last year?

I saw the Japanese flag in the video, you're part Japanese?

I think I know the answer to this question but will ask anyway. Are you running the container version of Home Assistant?

12:56 I have been running unraid and trunas as a proxmox VM for over 4 years now

Thanks for the video, passing on what you have learned. Wishing to escape Windows hardware upgrade path, I installed Windows 11 to Proxmox after which I installed JRiver Media Center to the Windows 11 VM. As my media files are stored on a TrueNAS machine and are played through a networked AV, I thought this my be a test to see if my wife could do her Microsoft dependent job on without upgrading to a new machine this Fall. Windows 11 via Proxmox handled everything on my home network perfectly without any special tricks having to be done to make it work. This is great as JRiver's Linux version is not yet up to the usability level that their Windows version has, and I see no reason to needlessly ditch perfectly capable Windows 10 and Linux capable machines just because Microsoft wants to continually force migration to it's latest iteration of Windows.

I can't wait for the next major update to TrueNAS. In Fangtooth they looking to over haul the VM section to bring TrueNAS closer to other HyperVisors to go with their Very good NAS and now Docker services.

Portainer has a gitops feature that works with docker compose.

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I may have to watch this again to.fully understand what is happening.

For those with smaller NAS setups like a home server that you've built, you can use Intel Optane NVME -- specifically the ones with dual storage of Optane + NAND (16gb / 256gb, 32gb / 512gb and the 32gb / 1tb) these show up as two different drives despite being on the same NVME stick. They are super cheap as are mostly used and I hope intel brings them back with more people building NAS. You can then use one of Log and the other for Cache. If you have multiple NVME slots even better -- :) PS, stock up while you can !

I love your thumbnail man! and your video!

That's more enterprise than the enterprise that I run.

This > Girlfriend

real men dont do backup the cry like whiped :D

yeah but why

you are a maniac

Can you please make a Video about Pihole, the config sync and the virtual IPs?

34:12 @technotim How are you running protect locally? I didn’t think it was possible. Thought it had to go through the cloud. Is it because you’re using a UNVR?

Have you thought about hosting something in your garage, like your pi zero?

i always type the ip in the notes for the CT

Just get a Synology NAS it has Plex server built in.

PBS over NFS. Yes it's a hack, But it works pretty god damn well. I just have it running as a VM on my truenas box so that even if everything else goes offline I can still backup and restore. Restoring proxmox from pbs that was running on said proxmox is NOT fun, ask me how I know. Maybe if you have HA and replication then it's a different story but I'm not that rich.

1hour of gold

Why do they call it Zimaboard?

An hour of interesting homelab information is exactly what I need this evening

Incredible. It's amazing what you can do when you don't support 100 people that can't remember their password. hahah - Wonderful setup, Tim!

Good stuff man, I am also glad that you're staying humble. Def gave us all something to aspire to.

The other most important video of the year!

You lost me at cArBoN fOoTpRiNt..

great video but your soul-less fake laugth is pretty weird

Hey Tim, what software are you using for the diagrams?

And the winner is.. OMV!

Did you know you can use portainer business edition for free up to the 3 node for personal use

this was a movie it didn't even feel like the video was over an hour long. i can watch you talk about homelab for a long time 🤓

@TechnoTim Nice update. If you're looking for a good monitoring solution, I would look at Zabbix. It's easy to self host and supports a number of different database backends and has a huge number of templates available to monitor just about everything. You can deploy proxies to monitor different environments and still have everything displayed on a single pane of glass. I run Zabbix on a Raspberry pi, similar to how you run your NUT server. This way Zabbix keeps working no matter what. It's the last machine to go down in an extended power outage and stays up while I'm doing maintenance on the other parts of my home lab .

32:55: Gravity sync has been discontinued and was archived on GitHub 6 months ago. The last version of gravity sync will not work with PiHole 6 due to architectural changes, so you'll need to deal with that at some point. I've been happy with AdGuard Home apart from a performance issue relating to response times that fixed in the current betas. The entire configuration is just one yaml file, so syncing that across multiple nodes should be very easy (just have an rsync cronjob for the one file). AdGuard Home also natively supports DNS over TLS, HTTPS, QUIC, DNSCrypt, etc. The native DNS over TLS support is why I moved from PiHole to AdGuard, and I'll definitely be moving over to DNS-over-QUIC once Quad9 supports it.

Hey Tim, love your setup! What are you using for the diagramming tools?