Another desirable skill I’ve been seeing on job postings is PowerShell. Foruntately PowerShell and Active Directory go hand in hand as PowerShell allows you to manipulate basically anything about a...

I’ve been seeing a lot of job postings wanting experience in Active Directory, and since I don’t have a way to gain that experience through my current job, I’ve decided to do the practice in my own...

I was able to upgrade the CPU of my Proxmox host from a Ryzen 5 2600x (6c/12t) to a Ryzen 7 3700x (8c/16t). While the swap was not entirely necessary, I appreciate having the extra breathing room f...

I’ve been looking at how I can monitor my Proxmox host’s status without having to look at the web-gui every time. Because of the issues I previously had issues with my Dashy install files via Porta...

I’ve been searching for used server hardware on places like Facebook marketplace and Ebay, and I was able to find a few good deals to help organize my setup better. A few things I was able to do wa...

So I found out that with Portainer a lot of the data is located within the portainer_data, but I haven’t been able to cd into some of the folders inside portainer_data. I didn’t realize the import...

I’ve been trying to implement more monitoring widgets to my Dashy page, but I’ve run into some issues with trying to configure the Dashy conf.yml file. I can’t seem to find the files in my linux VM...

Dashy has a very easy setup process with Docker which they have on the website’s quick start guide. docker run -d \ -p 8080:8080 \ -v ~/my-conf.yml:/app/user-data/conf.yml \ --name my-dashbo...

In a lot of videos about homelabs, I’ve seen PiHole be mentioned in almost all of them. It’s a self-hosted DNS server which can block certain domains from entering your network (which a lot of time...

This took me a few days of failed configurations to finally figure out. PiVPN Attempts Intially I had used this tutorial from Homelab Tim, which used PiVPN as a method of adding Wireguard to an Ub...