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A collection of 14 issues

Bufferbloat (Day 20)

While browsing and editing large RAW photos over SMB, I noticed some high kind of latency and got asking if this could be reduced. Some research later i found something called bufferbloat. What's Bufferbloat? I found this analogy of bufferbloat from Waveform.com that's worth sharing

Homepage Dashboard (Day 18)

Spent today setting up Homepage to organize access to all the URLs I currently have. Current dashboard Basic Configuration The base setup is defined in the settings.yaml file and looks like this: title: <Your title name> theme: dark color: slate background: image: <image> blur: sm

Minio (S3-Compatible Storage) and Terragrunt (Day 17)

With Minio running on our new storage, we've now got S3-compatible storage right. First use case: moving VM state off the local filesystem. Setup and Configuration Access Keys First, head to Minio and create an access key - you'll need both the Access Key and Secret

Storage (RAIDZ1) continued....(Day 16)

This is a continuation of this post, the final piece arrived today - another 12TB drive to complete the storage setup. Storage Configuration Created a new pool using RAIDZ1 with a 256GB SSD as ZFS L2ARC read-cache. Unlike the previous mirror setup from my testing, RAIDZ1 gives me more usable

Storage (TrueNas, and USB controllers) (Day 13-15)

What started as needing storage turned into a deep dive into USB and storage performances, and lessons about things like UASP, unstable drive paths, and temperamental USB controllers.

ArgoCD & App of Apps (Day 11 - 12)

Keeping everything in git and letting Argo handle deployments. Plus a look at the app of apps pattern for organizing multiple applications.

Service Routing with Traefik - External Services and URLs (Day 9)

Using Traefik to route traffic to services outside Kubernetes, e.g. Proxmox and OPNsense UIs, including SSL certificates.

Complex Simple Solutions Continued (Day 7)

This is a continuation of the previous post here. Left off with the Traefik setup in k3s not picking up the certificate, and if you read that post one thing that immediately comes to mind is “Did you check the right TLS secret was being used?” Since I’m working

Complex Simple Solutions (Day 5 & 6)

After the whole VM boot ordering not working the way i wanted, I finally decided to uncluster the nodes. (Also very likely a skill issue). To be fair having the nodes in a cluster made it easier for centralized management and easy VM migrations. From LXC to K3s This is

Traefik, Reverse Proxies and Lxc Containers (Day 4)

After running Proxmox for about 2 months, I realized I hadn’t tried out LXC containers yet. What better way to start than setting up a reverse proxy? What’s a Reverse Proxy? Think of a reverse proxy like a bartender - you ask for a drink, and they handle