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adguard

AdGuard Home: First Thoughts

Rather than rush to install PiHole for my first foray into DNS ad-blocking, I decided to give AdGuard Home a go to see how it stacks up on its own as an ad-blocking solution. Here's what I found.

podcast

The Podcast is reborn!

We have once again spun up our podcast. Subscribe your RSS feeds at anchor.fm/linuxserverio.

zfs

Getting started with ZFS on Linux

After attending Linuxfest Northwest 2019 where both Allan Jude and Jim Salter gave excellent talks about ZFS, I finally gave in and decided to implement ZFS on my server.

letsencrypt

Let's Encrypt, Nginx & Reverse Proxy Starter Guide - 2019 Edition

2019 edition of our Let's Encrypt, Nginx and reverse proxy guide helps you get started with hosting your own websites and/or securely exposing your services over the internet with automated ssl certs. Contains examples for hosting Wordpress sites and reverse proxying Nextcloud, Ombi and Plex.

The LSIO Pipeline Project

Goodbye Jenkins build definitions. Hello Jenkinsfiles and Git based build logic.

docker

Changes to our UniFi image

We are deprecating linuxserver/unifi and replacing it with linuxserver/unifi-controller. Read on to find out more...

unraid

Nvidia GPU on unRAID

Nvidia GPU on unRAID

containers

Self hosting Bitwarden Password Manager

Like the idea of hosting your own instance of Bitwarden's back-end database? This implementation may be for you.

linux

Grafana Series Part 2: Monitoring a UPS with Grafana on Linux

I recently purchased a new UPS which has a USB interface, the APC BX1500M to be precise. After piecing together a few blog posts I had a working Grafana dashboard giving me information about the power consumption of the devices connected to the UPS. Nice.

news

1 Billion

A billion pulls on Docker Hub.

forum

The Forum...Current state and the future...

The old forum as you knew and loved it has been retired and we're replacing it with a brand new Discourse based platform, the new standard of excellence in forum software.

linux

New Hard Drive rituals

Two is one. Once is none. If you treat every drive (new or not) like it's about to die I've found that is a pretty safe strategy to ensuring no data loss. That is especially true of brand new drives which are still within their retailer exchange periods.

docker

PSA: Deprecation of the linuxserver/gsm-ts3 image

Given the ever changing dependencies with the `lsgm` version of TeamSpeak and the constant issues surrounding updating the teamspeak version within the container, we have decided to, effective immediately, deprecate the image - it is now no longer maintained or supported by us.

ansible

Concatenate a complex string in Ansible

Constructing a long, complex string in Ansible can be achieved quite easily utilising Python string subsitution syntax.

arch linux

Bootstrapping WiFi for an Arch install with wpa_supplicant

It's quite easy to get tied in knots when dealing with the early stages of an Arch install because you're offline. So what do you do about this? Get online ASAP.

devops

Query instance specific information on AWS

Dynamic instance indentity documents allow you to query dynamic information about your AWS EC2 instances.

linux

How to configure systemd boot with UEFI

We cover configuring a Linux system to boot using systemd boot on a UEFI system.

docker

The dangers of pulling :latest

Sometimes it is better to stick to stability, rather than aim for the bleeding edge.

ansible

Ansible Tip - Referencing items from a hash

Let's say you are in the midst of writing an Ansible playbook and you need to reference multiple values from an 'item' in different places. Here's a neat code snippet that will allow

ansible

Ansible Tip - Using the expect module

Another Ansible top tip. Suppose you are running an installer or other process via Ansible which expects the user to be present accept a license agreement, enter some information or something. Enter expect,

Heimdall Application Dashboard

What is Heimdall? As the name suggests Heimdall Application Dashboard is a dashboard for all your web applications. It doesn't need to be limited to applications though, you can add links to anything

linux

A quick introduction to Ansible Console

Managing multiple machines sucks. No matter how much you automate there are always going to be edge cases where you'd like to perform the same command on multiple machines simultaneously. Enter, ansible-console -

linux

Using Traefik as a Reverse Proxy with Docker

Nginx is a great reverse proxy to put in front of your containers. But what if I told you there's another solution? One that involves less configuring, still supports LetsEncrypt, and automatically adapts

linux

Building a cryptocurrency mining rig

When I write for this site I like it to be a reflection of my current interests and right now, that is crypto mining. I'll share some of the tips and tricks I've

letsencrypt

PSA: Changes to our Let's Encrypt container (Updated)

Following a very recent announcement by the Let's Encrypt team regarding a vulnerability that has surfaced relating to the use of the TLS-SNI-01 challenge when validating certificates, we have had to make an