Introducing HomelabOS - Ansible scripts to deploy privacy centric personal servers

I’ve been working on a new Open Source project lately called HomelabOS that aims to make it easy to set up a home server to be a nearly complete cloud services replacement. I call it ‘Your very own offline-first privacy-centric open-source data-center!’ The goal is to make it easy for anyone to own all their data in an easy and secure way, without the need of cloud providers. It has a simple one-command setup (make) that uses Ansible to configure and deploy dozens of services for you in Docker containers to a server in your home network. Continue reading

Installing and configuring network wide adblock with Pi-hole and the Turris Omnia.

NOTICE: This article is outdated. Using LXC containers on the native flash memory will wear it down quickly. Look into HomelabOS for your piHole needs.

My new Turris Omnia arrived on Saturday morning, and it took me almost a full day to get Pi-hole setup and configured, so I thought I’d save someone else the time.

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