Tag: linux
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Building a Custom Dashboard with Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi
Are you running Home Assistant and looking for a way to enhance your smart home experience? Setting up a dedicated smart home dashboard is a game-changer. With a small monitor and a Raspberry Pi, you can create a sleek, interactive interface to control and monitor your smart devices. Here’s why and how you should build…
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Unlock the Potential of Your Pi with Raspberry Pi Imager
Raspberry Pi Imager is an essential tool for anyone working with Raspberry Pi devices. This simple yet powerful application allows users to flash operating system images onto microSD cards quickly and reliably. In this guide, we’ll explore the benefits of using Raspberry Pi Imager and walk you through the steps to install it as a…
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Docker Compose for Newbies
As with most new things, if they don’t come intuitively or naturally, they can appear difficult, possibly even scary. There have been so many concepts that I have put off learning because I was intimidated and didn’t want to commit the brain power after getting home from my 9-5 job. I definitely understand. But funnily…
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Installing Docker (Updated)
It is 2024. Why aren’t you containerizing your applications? Well if you are looking to install and deploy Docker containers, follow the tutorial below. Note: This tutorial assumes you have an Ubuntu-based operating system and sudo access to command line. Step 1: Copy the following command: This will download a script I threw together. Feel…
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Sharing with Samba
Share drives are vital for making resources available throughout a network. Whether this is simple version control or allowing access to vital files for all workstations across a network, share drives are more useful than just for enterprise purposes. The Samba project is a useful implementation of a file server that was created in 1992…
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The Rise of the Immutable Operating System
Virtualizing operating systems has been around for decades. A tried and true system to better utilize hardware and improve security, virtualizing allows for the execution of an OS in a sandbox-type of environment. This environment can allow for multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same hardware, efficiently sharing resources all the while. A…
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Containerizing Plex
Lately I have gotten more and more into containerization. I find myself spinning anything and everything I choose to put on my personal LAN in a Docker container. I even moved Plex from my long time trusty Snap package (be nice) to a containerized setup. I got tired of having to reconfigure all of the…
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Home Assistant: Building a Smarter Home
Do you have smart light bulbs in your home? Maybe some smart plugs controlling lamps or other appliances? How about a smart thermometer? If you said yes to any of those devices, I can almost bet that each one has their own app to control said device. What’s more, is that I can bet that…
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Managing Your Servers with Ansible
Do you have a homelab that you manage? Do you have a few servers that you manage remotely? Ansible is the perfect way to remotely manage a whole fleet of servers, (and possibly more) all from a single shell. With the power of Ansible, you can remote into a dozen machines, run the ole ‘sudo…
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