Hardware Watchdogs & Auto Reboots in Proxmox
Leverage emulated hardware watchdogs inside VMs to do automatic health checking and diagnostic reboots on hang, all with native Linux packages
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Self-Host Your Own Push Notifications with Ntfy
Setup an ultra lightweight push notifications server locally, for you to control, with Ntfy. No Google Firebase necessary.
How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
Bypass the Oracle free-tier limitation of running only Linux distributions provided by Oracle by sideloading a QCOW2 image to a boot volume and attaching it to a new instance.
End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody
Start-to-finish guide for setting up a modern XMPP (Jabber) Server to facilitate E2EE chat on your own infrastructure, podman style
SystemD Service Hardening
Discover additional security options for systemd units, to include quadlets. These options are everything from system permissions, time manage, BPF, syscall & seccomp filters, etc., all to make your system more secure.
"Meshtrics:" A Nosy Neighbor's Guide to Meshtastic Airtime Metrics in Grafana
Start using Prometheus metrics from a PC-connected Meshtastic node to keep tabs on the local mesh in your area. Discover which nodes are misconfigured, hogging airtime, and see patterns in high-use times, as well as environmental changes!
Monitor your AREDN Node with Prometheus and Grafana
Utilize the newly added prometheus metrics exporter in the AREDN firmware to add analytics and performance metrics to Grafana. Read about the metrics endpoint and a basic dashboard to monitor performance of your AREDN hardware or VM.
Intercept and Monitor TLS Traffic with mitmproxy Using Podman
Leverage podman containers to force TLS traffic through mitmproxy for content inspection inside the encrypted transport. See application traffic in plaintext!
Leveraging Authelia for OIDC Single Sign-On (SSO) with Headscale
How to deploy and configure your own Identity Provider using Authelia to support OIDC single sign-on for self-hosted tailscale using headscale, all with Podman Quadlets!
Monitor Your Network the GPL Way with LibreNMS
Leverage free, libre, open source software to monitor your network with LibreNMS. Enable SNMP, ICMP, and LLDP/CDP/XDP data collection to gather, aggregate, and report network information all with open source tooling, using Podman Quadlets
Monitoring OPNSense Logs with Grafana Loki (Part 2)
Display OPNSense firewall logs with GeoIP enrichment using data passed via Grafana Alloy and Loki
Monitoring OPNSense Logs with Grafana Loki
How to configure Grafana Alloy and Loki to ingest, normalize, and enrich OPNSense firewall logs
How to Host Headscale on a Linux Server with Podman Quadlets (Part 2)
My strategy for self-hosting a tailscale control-plane server using headscale, deployed with podman quadlets (Part 2)
How to Host Headscale on a Linux Server with Podman Quadlets (Part 1)
My strategy for self-hosting a tailscale control-plane server using headscale, deployed with podman quadlets (Part 1)
Running Winlink on Linux with PAT
A runthrough of a successful setup of PAT and ARDOP on linux for HF Winlink operation
How to install AREDN in a Virtual Machine on Proxmox
Walkthrough of the process to install AREDN in a Proxmox virtual machine
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