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Basics

Taming Loki’s hunger – reclaiming disk space used by limiting the Loki log size (for the docker plugin)

The Grafana Loki logging aggregator is a great tool to collect logs from lots of places (Docker containers) in one place. Loki log size can unfortunately grow quite big though with the default settings. When my Raspberry Pis SD card was nearly full I looked for some ways to combat Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year15.06.2022 ago
HomeAssistant

Simple Home Assistant configuration backup to the cloud with Docker

If you run the supervisor version of Home Assistant (or Home Assistant OS) a backup solution is built-in. If you prefer the more flexible installation via Docker there is no such solution. Here is how to keep regular backups of your Home Assistant configuration when running it in Docker. Running Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year04.04.2022 ago
Software

My 10 favorite & most useful smart home tools – for your DIY smart home

Building a DIY smart home needs a good set of software tools to write code, monitor your devices and update data. Here are my favorite smart home tools. Over the years I have used quite a lot and those turned out to be the best for the job so far. Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years08.03.2022 ago
Software

Secure your selfhosted services NOW – the Log4j2 issue

If you have not heard about the Log4j2 issues then it is time to act! Secure your selfhosted service right now or risk loosing all your data. Here is what you can do. The issue with Log4j2 Log4j2 is a logging library that is widely popular in the Java world Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years14.12.2021 ago
Software

Scan to your own private cloud – automatic upload to Nextcloud (or any other cloud)

The digital, paperless future is coming closer and closer. When I was looking to go digital I ran into one major problem: automatic upload to Nextcloud. The automatic upload from your scanner makes digital copies of your documents available everywhere – but only to you! It turns out that his Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years04.12.2021 ago
network

Making services available on the Internet in seconds with Traefik reverse proxy

Hosting your own services is pretty simple with Docker. Making services available everywhere via the web can be tricky. A reverse proxy is a flexible and safe solution for this problem – and Traefik is a reverse proxy build to be used with Docker and docker-compose. Here is how I Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years08.11.2021 ago
Software

Building a full home server – easy and effectively running 10+ services with Docker and Docker-compose

To host services on your own server you need a simple way of running them. A great combination here is Docker and docker-compose for running your services. After some initial setup this combination is very simple to use, easy to extend and really powerful. This is how I run my Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years25.10.2021 ago
Software

Building a full home server- the basics

Self-hosting important software and data on your own home server has a lot of advantages but can be a daunting task to get started with. I have been running my own server for a couple of years now and will describe the choices in hardware and software here. This will Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years06.09.2021 ago
HomeAssistant

Upgrading Home Assistant – painless updates via docker-compose

Setting up your own smarthome server with HomeAssistant and more is easy with Docker(-compose). Upgrading Home Assistant to keep everything up to date afterwards can be a challenge though. Here I will show a couple of ways to quickly update your containers. A smarthome server based on Docker My personal Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years ago
Software

Watchtower – Simple solution for automatic updates to all your Docker containers

Docker is great – keeping all your containers up to date not so much. Fortunately there is an easy fix to that: Watchtower. Docker and docker-compose allow you to easily run a bunch of services on a computer as cheap as the Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately with a lot of power Read more…

By Oliver, 3 years01.03.2021 ago

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