I self host my blog. The whole thing, Ghost CMS, MySQL database, all of it, runs on a Docker host in my house. A Cloudflare tunnel punches it out to the internet so you can read posts at emir.fyi without my home IP being exposed. It sits alongside a…
Why did I do this I got tired of changing Blink camera batteries and of the thought that someone in the cloud might have recordings of my family's every move. That's it. That's the origin story. Every now and then I'd get…
Why I Did This My Proxmox host rebooted, and everything went dark. Vaultwarden, ArgoCD, my monitoring dashboard, the blog, Paperless. All of it. Every service in my homelab routed through a Kubernetes cluster running on Proxmox VMs, and the load balancer for that cluster was MetalLB, which also ran inside…
To start I should probably mention that I work for a healthcare company, and our PostgreSQL databases are hosted on Aptible. Also this is NOT a tutorial. This is me writing about an experience I went through, which involved a fair amount of technical work, along with the usual emotional…
The Itch I had Paperless-ngx running. Technically. It was deployed on Portainer, had a DNS entry, a TLS cert, the whole nine yards. It also had zero documents in it. It was a ghost town with a login page. Every time I'd get a medical bill, a…