Quan N - Rambles of Q

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Setting up Authelia to work with Nginx Proxy Manager

Setting up Authelia to work with Nginx Proxy Manager

Introduction Every once in a while you'll have service that has does not have a user/password login. And though it doesn't perform anything critical or show anything crucial you would still like to put it behind something for your eyes only. This is were Authelia

Docker Stack Outline with Keycloak

Docker Stack Outline with Keycloak

This docker compose will not be using S3 storage or Minio bucket storage. Both storage options add too much complexity and AWS S3 isn't really selfhosted. That being said you should have a backup of your data incase local storage fails. For Authentication we are going to use Keycloak for the OIDC.

Docker Stack with Ghost and MySQL

Docker Stack with Ghost and MySQL

A docker compose stack with the blogging platform Ghost CMS and a MySQL Database. The docker stack will be deployed in production mode.

Docker Stack with Nginx and MariaDB

Docker Stack with Nginx and MariaDB

This is a updated guide to the previous Nginx Proxy Manager guide. It has a docker stack that has Nginx Proxy Manager and MariaDB.

Setting up a home instance of AudioBookShelf

Setting up a home instance of AudioBookShelf

Ah audiobooks the best of worlds for someone who has trouble readying and doesn't really want to have physically books take up precious floor space in an limited apartment. You even get, usually, a professional whispering in your ears the book. I've been a fan of

Repurposing a Laptop

Repurposing a Laptop

Throwing away electronics always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I recently acquired a 2019 MacBook Pro. My previous laptop was a Lenovo Ideapad 3 15IIL05 with a i3-1005G1. The idea was to repurpose the the notebook into a server that will house some docker containers and services. Some

Hard Drive Update

My main NAS has getting full over the years, and it's now time for an upgrade to happen. Originally the drive structure for the NAS server (Amuro) was a few miss mashes of hard drives I've acquired through the years. The CPU, motherboard, RAM, power supply,

DDNS and you

When self-hosting a website such as a blog or a static portfolio you need to be able to translate domain queries to your public IP address. A DNS (Domain Name System) will translate to a static IP address that will need to be manually updated if the target IP address

Docker Networks and Nginx Proxy Manager

Docker Networks and Nginx Proxy Manager

A part of my home lab configuration is the existence of Nginx Proxy Manager. What NPM does is it takes an incoming request, usually a domain and forwards it to the correct service. In the example about you can see that the request for the website domain.cxx is searched

Portainer, it's great

Portainer, it's great

Fore us to manage our container with a web UI and not just a command line interface. We'll use a docker image, portainer/portainer-ce:latest. To install portainer we'll use the following commands, but before we do that just a disclaimer: most things will be lifted

Docker Install For Me

Docker Install For Me

While you can find articles and vast amounts of tutorials on how to install Docker. This is another one of those for my own purpose, if you find it helps you that's great and have yourself a good day. Most things here will be straight lifted from Docker&

Lamy Al-Star Petrol Blue

Lamy Al-Star Petrol Blue

This is the first Lamy Al-Star that I've purchased on my fountain pen journey. The weight of an all metal shell, in this case aluminum, feels heavier than the all plastic Safari pen. The pen also has some minor dimensional changes, it's a little bigger than

The changes to my Homelab

If you're reading this then that means you might have and interest in homelabbing or self hosting. I currently have two servers in which I store my data and have services running, for example this blog is hosted on them. The first server (Amuro) is the NAS and

Sudden Snow Storm

Sudden Snow Storm

Edmonton experienced a super short mini blizzard on March 25. The snow fall was so dense that buildings only a few meters away dissipated into the snow fall. Later in the day all the snow melted.