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.
updated: 2024-02-03 Factorio is a game where you crash land on an alien planet and build a factory to create a space ship and escape the dangerous world you landed on. factorio_logo Configuring the server Someone has already created an amazing container image that will start the game server as a non-root user and supports mods out of the box. Only one volume/directory is needed to store the persistent data of the game server.
Cockpit is an open-source and easy to use web-based interface to manage a Linux system. It has features for users who may be new to Linux administration and provides information helpful to experienced administrators. By default, Cockpit will use the same user accounts that are present on the system. If the system is configured to use a directory service, Cockpit will forward the authorization to the directory service. There are also other software packages supported to integrate with cockpit.
One of the most useful systems to set up in a homelab is shared storage. Making storage available over the network makes it easier to share files and make system backups. A popular operating system for creating a network storage server is called TrueNAS which is based on FreeBSD and Linux and uses the OpenZFS file system. For a home lab, the BSD licensed free and public TrueNAS Core can be used in a homelab.
This post is taking a look at another suite of software to create and manage Virtual Machines. For a background on computer virtualization, check out a previous post. Linux distributions support virtualization through the Linux kernel which is why the software is called KVM. This stands for “Kernel-based virtual machine”. It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.
AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services that can be used together or on their own, to help front-end web and mobile developers build scalable full stack applications, powered by AWS (Amazon Web Services). With Amplify, you can configure app backends and connect your app in minutes, deploy static web apps in a few clicks, and easily manage app content outside of AWS. Use the Amplify console to host static websites and single page web apps with a Git-based workflow, simply by connecting your app’s git repository.
GitLab CI/CD is a feature of the GitLab platform that is used in software development for Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment of software. The idea is that software source code will grow and evolve over time but you do not want to have to manually compile your code each time a change is made. This is especially true when you develop software as a team and multiple changes might be made in a single day.