MIGRATING YOUR UMBREL DATA TO A NEW PATH OR DRIVE ARRAY
Learn how to safely migrate your Umbrel data folder to a new path or drive array using simple commands with this step-by-step guide.
MONITORING UPTIME WITH DOCKER COMPOSE AND CURL
Use Docker Compose and curl to perform push health checks on an uptime-kuma instance, ensuring that your services are always up and running.
HYBRID INFRASTRUCTURE UPTIME MONITORING WITH UPTIME KUMA, TRAEFIK, WIREGUARD, AND DOCKER
Leverage Uptime Kuma, Traefik, WireGuard, and Docker to effortlessly monitor a hybrid, multi-site, or multi-cloud infrastructure.
RESCUING A CORRUPTED LND UMBREL NODE WITH ZFS SNAPSHOTS
Word of caution: you could loose your channels’ balance when restoring LND from backup; be sure to read on! For the better part of a year now, I’ve been running an LND node in a virtual machine (VM) with Umbrel handling the underlying setup and container orchestration.
THE MYTH OF LINUX SECURITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHOOSING YOUR LINUX WORKSTATION DISTRO
When friends and colleagues see me running Linux, it often comes with the question or statement: Is it because Linux is more secure? Is that even the case though? While this is a common assumption, it’s important to understand that the security of Linux is more nuanced than that.
IMPLEMENTING APPARMOR FOR ENHANCED SECURITY ON ARMBIAN AND LIBRE COMPUTER'S LE POTATO SBC
This article provides a step-by-step guide on enhancing the security of a Libre Computer Le Potato SBC running Armbian by installing and enforcing AppArmor, alongside other crucial security hardening practices.
SCALING DOWN TO SCALE UP: THE ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPROACH USING LE POTATO SBC AS A RASPBERRY PI ALTERNATIVE
In this post, I share my journey of integrating the Le Potato Single Board Computer into my setup, after giving up on Raspberry Pis I could not find in stock or at a decent price. Le Potato turned out to be a great single-workload-host.
EFFICIENTLY ARCHIVING SCALEWAY BLOCK VOLUME SNAPSHOTS TO OBJECT STORAGE VIA THE CLI
Efficiently take instance block volume snapshots and archive them to object storage from the CLI, on the Scaleway platform.
TUNING ZRAM IN FEDORA FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE AND GET RID OF OOM CRASHES
Tweak Fedora’s SWAP on zram feature to increase the available RAM on your laptop or workstation.
SETTING UP NEXTCLOUD FULLTEXT SEARCH WITH ELASTICSEARCH
In this post, we will be setting up Fulltext Search on Nextcloud using nextcloud-aio container and Elasticsearch. For the purpose of this guide, we will be avoiding the use of the container mentioned in the official Nextcloud documentation as it executes processes as root, which is not ideal for many circumstances.