Tailscale on Talos (Day 38)
Getting Tailscale running on Talos nodes.
Topic
til
A collection of 9 issues
Traefik Timeouts and Immich (Day 21)
I have been setting up Immich, i.e destroying and recreating it until I got my photo organization and volumes just right.
The next step was to do a mass import after testing, the CLI tool makes mass imports pretty straightforward, but I kept having an issue with certain files
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
Machine and Container updates (Day 19)
Today was all about updates.
What started as just routine maintenance turned into a reminder of why we keep backups (and backups of backups).
The Update Plan
* Update Proxmox nodes
* Update VMs
* Update OPNsense to version 25
Things Go Sideways
After the updates and reboots, OPNsense decided to forget about
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
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
Debugging and General tips (Day 10)
Common debugging patterns and tips.
Service Consolidation and Blog Migration (Day 8)
I'm making some changes to my service organization today.
I've moving Grafana from my atlas main cluster described here over to the prism cluster.
The thinking here is services that need to connect to multiple sources could ideally live in one centralized place. (we will see
Systemd and Proxmox (Day 3)
It turns out that Proxmox’s quorum requirements are not as “simple” as I thought.
The initial solution of setting quorum expectations to 1 worked… sort of. Here’s what happened:
When a node booted up (remember it can’t initially “see” the other node), OPNsense would start (great!), provide