Using the Raspberry Pi PiKVM with Multiple Machines
If you’re looking to configure the TESmart switch with PiKVM, I finally figured it out and you can read all about it here. What is the PiKVM? If you don’t know what a KVM switch is, it’s a devic...
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Test Your Internet Speed from the Linux Terminal with fast
What is FAST.com? FAST.com is speed test gives you an estimate of your current Internet speed. It was created by Netflix to bring transparency to your upload / download speeds and to see if your ...
Updating Flux Installation Using the Latest Binary from CLI
What is Flux? Flux is a tool for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration (like Git repositories), and automating updates to configuration when there is new code to deploy...
Installing Mozilla SOPS Encryption Tool
What is Mozilla SOPS? SOPS is an editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and BINARY formats and encrypts with AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, age, and PGP.It’s open source ...
Installing Age Encryption Tool
What is Age? age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.It is commonly used i...
Deploying Machines with MaaS and Packer - Metal as a Service + Hashicorp Packer Tutorial
MaaS or Metal as a service from Canonical is a great way to provision bare metal machines as well as virtual machines.MaaS allows you to deploy Windows, Linux, ESXi, and many other operating system...
Enable Nested Virtualization In Proxmox
What Is Nested Virtualization? Nested Virtualization is a feature that allows you to run a virtual machine within a virtual machine while still using hardware acceleration from the host machine.Pu...
The EASIEST way to Expand Your ZFS Pool in TrueNAS (But is it the Best?)
ZFS is a great file system that comes with TrueNAS and can meet all of your storage needs.But with it comes some complexity on how to manage and expand your ZFS storage pools.Over the last week I l...
Techno Tim HomeLab Services Tour (Late 2022) - What am I Self-Hosting in my HomeLab?
Wow, what a year of self-hosting! After showing off my Home Lab hardware in my late 2022 tour, many of you asked what services are self-hosted in this stack. This is always a moving target so I dec...
Techno Tim HomeLab Server Room Tour! (Late 2022)
Well, here it is! My Late 2022 Server Rack and HomeLab tour! This is a special one because I just revamped my entire rack.I’ve upgraded, replaced, added, and consolidated quite a bit since my las...