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.
LXC is a system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead. LXC containers will share the kernel of the host operating system. If you are already using Proxmox, you can create LXC containers on Proxmox nodes and with the web UI. If you would like to set up Proxmox as a platform to host your virtual machines and containers, check out my previous post about installing Proxmox.
updated: 2024-02-01 Portainer CE is a web application that you can use to manage containers running on systems that have docker installed. Today we will be deploying Portainer community edition to manage some containers. Portainer runs as a container and you configure it to manage an existing docker installation. Portainer is also compatible with some additional container platforms which I may explore at a later date. portainer_logo Requirements As of this post, Portainer can be deployed on the following:
updated: 2024-01-13 All these Virtual Machines have gobbled up the RAM and CPU cores on my systems. Now I’m going to take a look at a different way to run software: Docker. docker_logo Docker and containers Docker is an open-source project for automating the deployment of applications into containers. Docker containers can run anywhere, on your laptop/desktop, on a server, or in the cloud. Containers can run natively on Linux and Windows.
There is a useful software application out there called Pandoc which is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another through a command line interface. Pandoc can convert between markdown, HTML, and proprietary formats like Microsoft Word. Installing The official site for pandoc includes instructions to install on multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux and macOS. https://pandoc.org/installing.html Example See the following example of converting a markdown file to an HTML file:
ansible Ansible is an open-source software that uses python to provide an automation language. It uses YAML declarative files known as playbooks to describe tasks that are executed by Ansible. Ansible can configure computer systems, deploy software, and automate IT tasks at scale. Ansible does not require software to be installed on managed systems and utilizes protocols such as OpenSSH and WinRM to connect to systems. The official documentation has more detailed information on how to get started.
packer You could set up each virtual machine by mounting the installation iso image to your virtual machine’s virtual disk drive and proceeding through the installer. In fact this is what I recommend for new users, but I will be using a software known as Packer to create Linux templates that I can use in VirtualBox or even other hypervisors. Templates can be found on my public github repo.