Dnsdist - DNS Load Balancing for Pi-hole Setup
I thought it would be useful to use a load balancer with health check functionality to distribute the DNS traffic from devices
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Caddy - Reverse Proxy with Pi-hole Local DNS Setup
I wanted to use Caddy’s reverse proxy functionality so that I can browse to my web applications using DNS instead of an IP address with a port number.
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XCP-ng - Installation with Xen Orchestra and XO Lite
With the release of XCP-ng 8.3 I thought it would be interesting to try XCP-ng in combination with Xen Orchestra to manage hosts and pools. I also wanted to try out XO Lite. For that I bought a small Asus NUC 14 Pro (i5 processor, 64 MB RAM, 2.5Gbe). If...
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NixOS - Guacamole Clientless Remote Desktop Gateway Setup
Once Guacamole is installed on a machine, in my case running NixOS, all you need to access your desktop environment and CLI is a web browser.
It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.
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NixOS - Ollama AI tool with Oterm and Open WebUI Setup
After my adventure with [[Serge LLaMA AI Chat - Windows Podman Container Setup|Serge AI Chat]] it was time to take a look at other AI tools. But now in combination with NixOS. And I would like to use the GPU this time, cuda in my case, where Serge only used...
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NixOS - Add Unstable Channel Packages and Services to Configuration
Some packages are lagging behind within the default channel of NixOS. Then it is nice to have the option to use a newer package from the unstable channel
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Unifi Network - Setup Chromecast between VLANs
Fortunately, it is nowadays very easy to use the Chromecast within different networks/vlans. All you have to do is make a few settings within the Unifi Network Application.
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Python - Download and Install Packages with Dependencies Offline
In this note, I’ve summarized how you can download Python packages and quickly install them offline on other machines
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NixOS - Installation with LUKS Disk Encryption
I thought it would be a good idea to install NixOS on an encrypted disk. If something happens to the PC or server, at least all my data won’t be out on the street.
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Unifi Network - Setup VLANs including IoT and access to Pi-hole
Here I describe which networks/VLANs and WiFi networks I have created. And how I configured the firewall and added a rule that allows the Pi-hole from the SERVER-VLAN to be used by devices in other VLANs such as the CLIENT-VLAN and IOT-VLAN.
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