The Open Source software I'm using in 2023 - Part 1!

This is part 1 of a 2 part series this year. As my use of Open Source grows, it gets harder to fit everything into a reasonable length video. I hope you enjoy it.
I apologize, I tried to put everything in here from the show notes, but I don't get enough characters to do it, so I will simply ask you to click on the show notes below to find more information about any of the projects I talk about.
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=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Beginning
00:09 Introduction
00:34 Firefox
01:24 Linux
04:33 Dashy - Browser Dash and Shortcuts
05:58 Metabase - No Code Data Analytics
07:30 Portainer
11:01 Proxmox - Virtualiation Orchestrator
13:02 NGinX Proxy Manager
14:31 MeshCentral - Remote Machine Management
16:23 TrueNAS Scale
19:09 Vaultwarden - Password Manager
20:35 Remotely - Remote Support Tool
21:54 Guacamole - Remote Desktop in the Browser
24:12 Pi-hole - Ad-blockingDNS
25:07 Pi-Alert - Notification of New Network Devices
26:05 Speedtest Tracker
27:35 Uptime Kuma - Status / Uptime Monitor
29:06 Home Assistant
31:11 Mail-in-a-box - Self Hosted Email
32:33 OpenSprinkler
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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Goal accomplished. My whole purpose is to inspire people to try out some of the awesome open source software out there.

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can't wait for part.2

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Next week! I'm getting it all edited now...it's odd, the recording goes so well, editing isn't too hard, but getting the show notes together for these is quite an effort..but I love it.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks so much!

[@chrisa.1740]

Thanks for updating the "I'm using" series for 2023! I've been a long time user of most of these as well, and it's great to see how someone else in the HomeLAB space uses these apps.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you liked it!

[@anibalandrade754]

Great video. Just started my Home Lab and this gave me lots of ideas to use! Thanks!

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Awesome! It can be addictive to build an amazing homelab for sure.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you.

[@JuanHernandezV]

This is awesome! I stopped using Google searches a long time ago because everything is so SEO oriented that it always returns crap, making me miss on a ton of OpenSource stuff... and now, this list felt like a refresher that I needed. Thank you!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

So happy it helped you out.

[@susisunkist7157]

Thank you, thank you. I really love the style of your video: content instead of showcasing blinking hardware in the background. I have been using Linux on my devices for almost 25 years but there are always new things here and there worth exploring... Looking forward to watch part 2.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you enjoyed it!

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

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[@concep86]

Always manage to get 1 or 2 new apps from your videos. Thanks for all you do.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

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[@himabimdimwim]

Very enjoyable video! Thanks for sharing all of this great info.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks, it's called Dashy, and it's really a top notch tool for me.

[@davidzuijdwijk6806]

i use container top in the terminal. ctop is kinda like portainer without the deploing, you can see status, logs start stop delete ... its really cool, and a fast way to check.

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Yep, did a video on it a few years back. Top notch Cli power right there.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I appreciate that!

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Thank you for subscribing! Glad to have you along for this journey.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

[@musictab7376]

outstanding. I took some quick notes but think I'll have to create a list of things I need to explore/install

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome! hopefully a few of them will be useful for you.

[@ArifKamaruzaman]

I've been running my homelab and test a bunch of open source software, thanks to your channel. Some of them I even used at my company. Got my value upped for it.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Absolutely! Building a business on Open Source is a series I've beenworking for almost a year now, and it just keeps getting better, and over time, easier to do.

[@zoranaw7964]

Hi Arif, can you share what do you use at your company? Thnx.

[@MrLopaka99]

Extremely excellent content in this video. Thank you.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you like it. Part 2 coming tonight.

[@sanketss84]

super valuable apps. there are many I wasn't aware. thank you so much.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure. I try to do this once a year, and am always glad when I point out applications others didn't know about.

[@sanketss84]

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks for watching, and for the compliment.

Very good video, waiting for the second one - Thanks

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks, and coming soon.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you like it, and welcome aboard!

[@corcaightowner8881]

I never have used windows at home, it was forced upon me at work. But I needed more power. I was multi-tasking windows programs on OS/2. I found that the windows programs ran far faster under OS/2. It worked so well that I installed at home. Then when Linux showed up, it took me a few months to fully adapt it at home. That was in 2004. I haven't regretted dropping windows, at all. I've been running Kubuntu since 16.04, but have used Red Hat, Suse, PCLinuxOS, Sabayone, and Linux Mint.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That is awesome!

[@duncan-mcrae]

Thanks. Just getting into this space. Been working with Linux for a while. Docker and Portainer now as well

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That's awesome! Stick with it. I hope some of my tutorials can help you out.

[@cameronfrye5514]

The most recent Linux distro I've messed with was Debian 5. Based on your short Linux discussion it really has come a long way. Looks like it's time to find a place to install and give it another go. Thanks!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure. I love me some Linux!

[@TimOsman]

Great video. Thanks for taking the time.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Always a pleasure.

[@arion5473]

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure!

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure, glad you liked it.

[@jonl316]

This has been so helpful. Thanks for putting this list together.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure. Stay tuned for Part 2.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Absolutely, and thanks for the sub!

[@lmaoroflcopter]

On guac you can set up read only/view only sessions. Super handy if you want to do a demo to someone, or have their input without sharing a mouse/keyboard :)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That's a great idea!

[@Theborg72]

thanks for your tips, what I'm missing are links to the various programs you show in case I want to try them.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

In both of these two videos I have a link in the description to the show notes. On that singel show notes page, I have links to my detailed instructions on install, setup, and basic usage, as well as links to the project pages.

[@KLNYC]

Thanks brother!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

[@chaturvedirishab]

I am a nontechy, trying to learn. your video is so helpful. Thanks from India

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad they are helpful, and welcome!

[@zippi777]

HI, thanks as always for the share! Now i'm waiting for part 2....3..... :-)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Part 2 is coming soon...and some folks have asked me to cover my hardware setup as well, so that may be a part 3.

[@contort69]

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That's awesome! Thank you! As long as you spread the word about open source and how awesome it is, then I'm super happy!

[@memestra-11]

Vaultwarden is awesome, I totally second that!!!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Love Vaultwarden!

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome! So happy you are on the journey with us!

[@zoranaw7964]

They say that Homelabbing is a serious and dangerous illness and addiction that is hard to cure. With this kind of channel/video and Proxmox it would eventually become impossible :D

[@AndyPlayedGuitar]

I love the clickety clickety but I'm slowly learning the terminal, by breaking things whilst trying to set them up then having to start over. I love all this stuff, still super new to the "home lab" world though. So much to learn

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Stick with it! It's gets easier with each thing you add to your lab.

[@c-LAW]

Awesome help! Thanks!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

[@MohammedNoureldin]

That was an awesome video. Thank you! Did you release part-2? Please post the link if yes

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I did. Here's the link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpKvfJafjsuJnKcsi=V4XEo5EyzsCieXU7

Awesome stack!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks. I't sawesome to be able to do it all with Open Source!

[@joshprice7349]

Love your content! I wanted to let you know you're missing an r at the end of the speed tracker url in your show notes.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you. Probably a bad paste. I appreciate it.

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you like it!

[@StageMan57]

I watched your video on RustDesk because I use Teamviewer to help my kids remotely. I saw your caption in the right column, "Rustdesk - an Open Source, Self Hosted alternative to..." I watched it. It appears your day job is being a Server Admin. I came online at 38 in 1995 as an M.C.S.E. and was into being a Server Admin for a 5 years. My first contact with Linux was with "Lindows"

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I'm actually a Product Manager in my day job. Open Source, self hosting are my passion hobbies, and I do a little bit of IT on the side for a few specific folks. So, indeed the remote support tools really come in handy.

[@fleboho]

Well, this was very very usefull information. Can't thank you enough for this.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful.

[@brodierobson4490]

im so happy i watched this - meshcentral is exactly what I am after!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome!

[@pocketsfullofdynamite]

No one made such a phenomenal listing and while show casing the usage of the software that we find it difficult to discovery otherwise. Very Good job BTW I enjoy terminals too but most often clickety.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you liked it!

[@looper6120]

I love command line for anything lol so I don’t have to worry about how to make my desktop looks clean and pretty 😅

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

The CLI is awesome for sure!

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Very useful video thanks for sharing

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

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So cute, thanks for this

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure!

[@WELDE83]

Yesus Thank you very much!!! Cant wait for Part 2/6

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I promise, it's just a part 2 / 2.

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[@sagarsriva]

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

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I can't wait for your part 2

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Coming soon!

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[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Coming soon.

[@thesingularity1010]

Thank you

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

[@sachinandangangopadhyay1782]

This is a great video for us to explore more about open-source things. I have been trying to setup my Guacamole and its working pretty well with both password-based authentication and ssh private key based authentication with Ubuntu 20.04 on OCI vm. ssh private key based authentication on Ubuntu 22.04 on a AWS ec2 instance not working. guacd logs shows "Public key authentication failed: Username/PublicKey combination invalid." Any thoughts?

[@onestopviewfiles]

Would be very interesting to do a video showing the software side of setting up something equivalent of unraid. Something that follows perfect media server

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I think "perfect" might mean different things to different people. There are several open source options out there for the Unraid crew. Unraid is polished, and has a certain refinement to it, but these others are getting there quickly. OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS (Scale), Rockstor, etc.

[@zoranaw7964]

@@AwesomeOpenSource Maybe even Casa-Os and Umbrel-OS small personal cloud. Nothing like truenas and unraid, but worth to look at; for some specific scenarios.

[@SB-qm5wg]

I feel in love with LibreWolf. It's a privacy fork of FF and I find it just as fast and all FF extensions work. I'm not thrilled about the directions Mozilla took with _Suggest_ , amongst others.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Totally understand, and that's awesome that LibreWolf is working so well for you.

[@alanjrobertson]

I use lots of these already and totally agree - love Portainer, NPM (although has been unreliable recently for renewing SSL certs), MeshCentral, ProxMox, Uptime Kuma, Home Assistant 👍 Out of interest what benefits did you find for Remotely over MeshCentral? MC also has a run-one app for support requests that doesn't require full installation so I just use that instead.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I like the waay remotely gives the end user the option to stop my control, but still allow me to see what they are trying to do, and vice-versa. There's some great features in both, but I use MeshCentral as a RMM more than a remote support tool. use what works best for you though.

[@sgill4833]

That's an amazing desktop environment, can you tell us your set up so that us newbies can replicate it.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Straight up Ubuntu 22.04. Just changed the layout in the settings for Appearance. No special extensions or anything installed.

[@MohammedNawaz-nw5kv]

The best opensource software list by far I've seen on youtube.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you so much!

[@StormWarningMom]

instant sub just based on the list of software you are using.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome! Thank you for that.

[@pwii]

Great suggestions! I'd add Caprover (basically self-hosted SaaS like heroku), Pterodactyl (game servers through docker), Xbackbone (basic file upload, easy file sharing), Shlink (link shortener) and Gitea or now Forgejo (self-hosted git server). Also, I use Zerotier to access my servers, things like SSH are only accessible from the VPN.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I'll look at those. I don't use any of them today though.

[@alanjrobertson]

Yourls is another fantastic link shortener that I use and would highly recommend 👍

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I setup Kutt a few years ago, and it worked quite well too. I'll look into these others.

[@c0dev0id]

Super interesting. You're using everything I'm avoiding :P I don't like the web and I don't like containers. I dumped truenas for a bare freebsd machine and I dumped the pi-hole because it's growing useless with all the offending devices moving to DOH. And I prefer light switches without firmware (aka no home automation). But it's nice to see what other people do. However, I love that you host your own mail server. More people need to do it!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It's not for everyone. And physical light switches are still necessary for sure.

[@nauyv]

Did you have a video/notes on what type of hardware you use to host everything with? i really want to dive into getting my homelab set up properly.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Someone else requested this as part of Part 2, so let me see if I can get it added, or simply a fresh video about it.

[@ImAManMann]

Depending on what you are trying to do, I would suggest getting a dell t320 and upgrade to a 10 core cpu and as the cost makes sense... max out the ram. Make sure to get the enterprise idrac license. With that you can use proxmox or truenas core and run basically anything you want.

[@Vashinator7]

I just got a mini PC in to start homelab, so the timing on this is good. I'm a Linux focused creator, any tips on content creation? As far as the video, two questions: first at a high level, what is the difference between remotely, mesh central and guacamole? I do remote stuff sometimes to help my parents. Second, what do you use to keep documentation about the various servers? I was considering wiki js or something like obsidian (though the latter is not open source). Looking forward to part 2!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

1st - Awesome that you are doing Linux content. As for content creation, I just say make the content that you would enjoy watching, the viewers will come. My viewers are Awesome! I will say, I've been toying with the idea for Open Ssource of a "Anything you can do, I can do (better)" series for Open Source vs. Closed Source software...but would love to see that for Linux vs. Windows and MacOS...just a thought. 2nd, i have a video comparing MeshCentral, Remotely, RustDesk, and RPort (not got Guacamole in there yet, but will), so maybe it will help. I would compare Guacamole to Remmina more than the others really, but closer to an RMM than remote support. Here's that link kzbin.info/www/bejne/eouTgJatnMZnadk 3rd. For my Show Notes - I'm usingBookstack. Love it's hierarchy, and the search is really good. Some people don't like the look of it, but I direct link from the video to the specific article. It has some great power features too, so that really makes it great for me. I'm slowly migrating from Ghost. Check out the bookstack channel for the features www.youtube.com/@BookStackApp I'm excited for Part 2 as well, and you have a new subscriber!

[@ImAManMann]

Remotely- advantage is graphics acceleration and webrtc communication.... it really lowers server load. Mesh central- advantage is community and broad os support. Guacamole- advantage is it supports lots of protocols and can act as a gateway and pretty easily can have management integrated into ldap and AD.... can be a pain to setup when new to it.... it is also probably most feature rich for what it does.

[@tnjsrf]

this is so useful!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome! Glad you think so.

[@leboromeo]

Well done B :)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you my friend!

[@btanerii]

Thank you for great video. Do you expose your mail-in-a-box server directly to the internet or behind a proxy backend ?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

in this case it's on a VPS exposed to the internet with the ports open thata it needs.

[@georgeyoung108]

What thermostat do you use with Home Assistant? I've been trying to find a way to do more advanced programming of my AC, like having multiple schedules I can switch out, having more than 4 temperature changes in a day, automate summer and winter programs, etc.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Today I use an Ecobee integration. It's super great, and I even have it alert me when the air comes on for the first time in a day so I can close the doors on the house.

[@zoranaw7964]

I would suggest connecting business apps to show KPI's so that small businesses can see their numbers and grow: for example ErpNext + Activepieces (zapier O.S. self hosted alternative) + Grafana.. so that numbers can be exported on sales floor, etc etc. Similar to Bradon Dawson at cardone ventures on youtube is talking about; growing, scaling small business, optimising according to KPI's aspect ratio etc. From under 1 million to 20 millions and more. Without proper tools (coneccted synced tech stack) and know-how and mindset is hardly possible. And Tech-stack and data is big part of it. Thnx for you effort.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Cool Idea. Maybe I could use something like n8n to pass the data around, and collect it in something like Basero, then display metrics in Metabase.

[@zoranaw7964]

@@AwesomeOpenSource It's worth trying since you know n8n. I have just finished installing open source Activepieces for the same purpose (with the help of support at their dischord support stuff - because docker inside proxmox ubuntu 22.04 lxc not yet - so smooth install; unlike regular docker). And will try to figure out how to do stuff and how to connect everything. Based on scenarios what would small business owner wanna have as "real time kpi" .

[@Hunterdietzman]

I was listening to this in the background while working on my servers and out of nowhere "..but this is my sprinkler system" I was like ?????

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I use open source software to control my sprinkler system in my yard, and it's absolutely amazing! Best thing I ever did.

[@imzsoul]

Inspired to do more

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That is awesome!

[@cig_in_mouth3786]

I am new to home automation, my first choice was home assistant and run couples of esp32 and esphome does the job, but now I am trying openhab and migrating for a piece of cake if you have mqtt server setup

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Interesting. OpenHab has always had good reports. How's the compatibility with commercial bulbs, switches, and other IoT devices?

[@cig_in_mouth3786]

@@AwesomeOpenSource they have good number of devices support, like hue will work oob, currently playing with multiple esp32 and some sensor for automation will report you back. :- In the end you can host an openhab server on your computer. If you forward the port and it is quite stable and i learn the inner working of mqtt :p

[@notsocc]

Im a new subscriber and so glad I found this channel. I’ve been using Truenas scale for apps with limited success. What’s you recommended platform for a server to host apps? Ubuntu server or something? Cheers. Im now going to watch all your other videos!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I use Proxmox, then setup Ubuntu VMs to run docker on top of. It works quite well for me, as you can see.

[@notsocc]

@@AwesomeOpenSource Perfect. I think I will rebuild one of my servers to Proxmox, and do as you suggested. Thank you !

[@dourfor]

Só fawesome, fico como um geeknerd watching this. But what do you u use for security all this services ? Of course how much ucan tell about it Ho much do I like twingate?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I'll take a look at twingate, haven't seen it before. As for security, I use pfSense firewall, Wireguard for VPN access, and NGinX Proxy Manager for proxying traffic vs. opening ports. I have several extensions in pfSense as well, and VLANs on my network to separate concerns a bit.

[@Richard_1012]

Thank you for this. Was getting close to having to pay for this kind of thing.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

If you find something you really like, always consider giving them a bit of money to keep them motivated to continue the project. But, yes, these can be run without cost as well.

[@Richard_1012]

@@AwesomeOpenSource I definitely will. I came across one of your videos a couple of months ago. Enjoying the content. I believe you do some work in my little hometown which is cool.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That's awesome!

[@abhinavverma4364]

Firefox is just soo good. I have about 800 tabs open right now.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Agree. It's really gotten great over the last few years.

[@AJKammerer]

Damn, you guys kill it on ebay.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Well, my wife works really hard at it.

[@javisartdesign]

awesome

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks!

[@SpinningSpiral362]

Amazing video. Thanks for sharing this. MeshCentral and Guacamole seem to be providing the same service. What are the unique benefits of each?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

MeshCentral is great, and super reliable in my usage of it. It's really an RMM (Remote Machine Management). Guacamole is awesome, but to me more of a "I want to get to my desktops from a browser using RDP or VNC" type tool.

[@philpeko1796]

Nice video, you've got a subscriber. I use Pi-hole, I also have two RPi, as DNS servers, but only one of them is my DHCP server (home network). Do you equally use them to get DHCP redundancy? I would gladly know how you do it.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

No, I only use my RPis for DNS. I let my firewall / router do the DHCP.

[@philpeko1796]

@@AwesomeOpenSource Ok, Thanks.

[@milentiusgaming]

"when i click on that what is does is log me in" what a great feature to have working... the login button :P looking forward to part 2.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Always handy to have a login.

[@DigiDoc101]

Thank you for this awesome summary. Quick question: When you set up NPM, from a security standpoint, do you have NPM and servers on the same network/vlan? I have been having npm separate on a DMZ network. I wonder what you think?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I think as long as you know how to setup the proper routing, then do whatever makes you feel most comfortable. I run my npm on a proxy server (dedicated for proxying traffic) then have my other services running on various VMs. These are all on an VLAN that is separate from my main network.

[@ativerc]

Halfway through the video...a few questions...how do you do ssl on your LAN? Also what hardware specs are you running on your servers?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I use LetsEncrypt on my Lan and WAN (you need to get your domain registrar setup with a special record to do DNS challenge SSL for LAN Only). I actually just made a hardware setup video last night, as several people have asked about it. I'll get it edited and have it out in a week or so.

[@ativerc]

@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks mate! Subbed and tapped on the bell icon as well. Waiting!

[@YuriShevchouk]

Good job :)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you, glad you like it!