• homelab update 04/03/2024

    Was able to connect my fledgling Ruby On Rails (RoR) app to Postgres remotely. Small victories!

  • homelab Postgresql

    Spent much of today installing Postgresql on Ubuntu. Actually, that is not fair, I spent much of the day configuringPostgresql for remote access from a macOS client. So call it post installation server and client configuration. On the server side, the steps are well documented and straightforward: allow external connections (edit /etc/postgresql/YY/main/postgresql.conf and /etc/postgresql/YY/main/pg_hba.conf where YY = version…

  • homelab Samba

    Samba, oh Samba. Let’s start with this, I am not a fan of Samba on native OSes. I believe that this has almost nothing to do with Samba itself and everything to do with the tooling around it. Specifically, the tooling to create the access configuration file. In my view there are at least two…

  • homelab Proxmox

    In all candor, Proxmox is partially in the homelab because it was the first open source type 1 hypervisor I came across. While quite powerful, I had no desire to run Openstack in the homelab. I had concerns about the long term viability of vmware (they have proven to be justified) and, showing my ignorance, I never…