Posts by projectdp@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #APvxjnxpZdzC94im00 by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-11-21T18:41:30Z
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Imagine you open your Mastodon client and it seems your instance is down. You try navigating to the website, no dice. You check a site down service, or from remote VPN location and it's not just down from your location, it's really down.What's your plan of action from this point forward? How can you best prepare a contingency for when your home instance is taken down?
(DIR) Post #APwYtqUIk4vhAkYmA4 by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-11-24T22:03:47Z
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I wanted to share my #homelab current goals with the community here. I'm hoping to see what others are looking to #selfhost and learn with their lab.I would like to learn the ins and outs of Zero Trust deployments including #SSO, various #IdPs, LDAP, #FIDO2 to replace #TOTP, Cert based Auth options, and LB/Proxying. I want to have a solid and secure load balancing / proxying portal to access my lab assets. Hopefully in a way that could be authenticated properly on each request. I know this can be cut many ways but I would like to determine my preference by testing many combinations to deeply learn the different approaches and limitations.AI/ML - Looking to do a few things here. I want to run a variant of #StableDiffusion so I no longer have a cap on renderings like with #OpenAI. I want to run a #selfhosted equivalent of #Github #Copilot. Also would like to run something like #GPT-3 text generation and summarization in the lab. Lastly I want to containerize #Tesseract with a light frontend for image #OCR for general use.Cluster capabilities: I have a long term plan of comparing the features of #Proxmox against #vCenter for lab use. I used to run standalone #ESXi for my lab and that worked fine except for the obvious limits of a single host lab. I wanted to learn to better deploy clusters and see how affordably you can utilize more advanced features. I have been happy with Proxmox but still have some things to work out. Eventually I will rebuild as a #vCenter cluster.#IaC #scripting #programming - Looking to get more mature about my #CICD approach and understanding. Currently running #Terraform to deploy Prox VMs, have #Gitea, and post-deployment I use #Ansible. Looking to have a much more advanced build and test process.I'll post more in another goals thread: Re: #Storage #NAS #Backup #OS #Networking #Containers #Kubernetes #AWSI'd really like to hear what you're doing, big or small to use your lab to learn and experiment.
(DIR) Post #APyLr3ZiiVdXo0M1g0 by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-11-25T19:38:34Z
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@y3mz Thanks for the recommendations on each point that was very thorough. Yes for the idm/p sso f2 stuff those are definitely some of the options I'll end up testing out. For #StableDiffusion I plan on trying from my container host first without GPU pass-through and check performance. Otherwise I may use one of my GPU rigs to do so. For IaC, I've heard of #Drone but not #WoodPecker.I like that you're using #nixos that's great! I was hoping to understand your lab goals a bit better. Regarding the darknet mesh is that mostly to allow private access to your lab #network? Can you explain what goals you'd like to accomplish with your #homelab activities?
(DIR) Post #APyMimOYo8vq9zkeEy by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-11-25T20:00:57Z
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@y3mz @simon_brooke Yes I think it would be great if you could have a simple instance-to-instance sync tool that runs on a job for all your contacts and profile settings.Maybe not reposting your post archive every time to alt accounts, due to spam, but at least backing it up safely.
(DIR) Post #AQ8rr8euxIEjgdT2xc by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-11-30T21:23:29Z
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@luc Neat, Akkoma and Maloja are new to me! Thanks~Regarding resources I also had a similar question hosting a fully syncing #Ethereum node. I realized my physical machine in 2021 didn't have the disk capacity for the entire blockchain so I had to rebuild it with more and then it still wouldn't fully sync. Turns out there needs to be additional CPU and memory as well to get the tail end of the latest transactions. I eventually stopped doing it because I needed more resources than I could afford to lose in the #homelab.I also ran a virtual #Matrix node for a while and noticed the same about network / bandwidth utilized.It would be cool to see stats from any other #selfhosted #fediverse or #mastodon admins specifically around bandwidth utilization, but also general resources used.
(DIR) Post #AQJXsPDV1D5kz7WqUS by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-12-06T01:16:28Z
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@alejandrobdn Start with an easy well-documented Docker container you want to try. There are countless blog articles online or even videos you can use to get started.What sort of software are you interested in running?Are you looking for specific details on using the hosting platform you chose?
(DIR) Post #AQJkJLED9eOdspTKcq by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-12-06T03:29:38Z
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#NixOS users, can you help me understand from your experience what the fundamental value proposition is for the system that you appreciate the most?
(DIR) Post #AQJvI9BrWaxdkr0TBI by projectdp@infosec.exchange
2022-12-06T05:38:50Z
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@primalmotion Yes it seems to have the desired state declarative approach that something like Puppet/Chef/Salt configuration management solutions have, along with the atomic changes and fast rebuilds that you get with Docker, all creatively applied to a package management system.