This is a personal blog focused on computer software and hardware. Most projects are implementing software and hardware for a homelab. What is a homelab? I would say a homelab could be a single computer or dozens of computers connected in a network. You can also integrate with computers in the Cloud.
update 2024: the official cadvisor image now supports arm which means it will work on Pis cadvisor_logo cadvisor exporter is used by Prometheus to monitor container metrics. If you are not familiar with prometheus, check out a previous post. The cadvisor program will collect metrics and make them available on a http server. Prometheus needs to be configured to collect metrics from the cadvisor exporter and then grafana can be used to visualize those metrics.
Note: I drafted this in January 2022 but I did not realize that this distro seems to be no longer maintained after SUSE acquired Rancher in 2021. I am going to upload this post because I enjoyed how flexible this distro was for running k3s. k3OS is a Linux distribution designed to remove as much OS maintenance as possible in a Kubernetes cluster. It is specifically designed to only have what is needed to run k3s.
rancher_desktop Rancher Desktop is an open-source project to bring Kubernetes and container management to your workstation. For more information about installing Rancher Desktop or containers, check out a previous post. If you are not familiar with Kubernetes, check out a previous post about getting started. Installation is trivial on most platforms, I will briefly touch on installation on Linux as I happen to be using openSUSE at the time of this post.
updated: 2025-02-09 Blackbox exporter is used by Prometheus to monitor HTTP(S), TCP, DNS, and ICMP endpoints. If you are not familiar with prometheus, check out a previous post. The blackbox program will collect metrics and make them available on a http server. Prometheus needs to be configured to collect metrics from the blackbox exporter and then grafana can be used to visualize those metrics. Configure blackbox Blackbox is configured with a .
Kubernetes, also known as k8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and managment of containerized applications. The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot. K8s as an abbreviation results from counting the eight letters between the “K” and the “s”. Kubernetes builds on 15 years of development powering the largest search engine Google with contributions from the open-source community. Kubernetes is focused on scalability from running to to a billion containers.
Uptime kuma is an open-source tool for monitoring uptime for HTTP(s) TCP HTTP(s) Keyword Ping DNS Record Push Steam Game Server Updated 2023-05-14 This is one of my more popular posts according to Google and I still use Uptime Kuma. I am going to recreate my own instance and go over how to deploy the app and how to deploy a secure reverse proxy in front of the app. Install with Docker Prerequisites Originally I had set up a virtual machine in the Amazon Web Services Cloud (AWS) but for the purposes of this monitoring app, AWS is too expensive.