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docker compose pull
docker compose down
docker compose up -d
Right before the end of your day. Ask me how I know 😂
compose up will automatically recreate with newer images if the new one were pulled. so there is no need for compose down btw
You're right. I got in the habit of doing that because I'm endlessly tweaking my .env files and I don't think those reload unless you shut down first
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All of those systems in your homelab...they aren't all pulling down their updates multiple times over your network link, right? You're making use of a network-wide cache? For Debian-family systems, something like Apt-Cacher NG?
Oh. You're not. Well, that's probably okay. I mean, not everyone can have their environment optimized to minimize network traffic.
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heck i really wish we could all throw a party together. part swap, stories swap. show off cool shit for everyone to copy.
help each other fill in the missing pieces
y'all seem like cool peeps meme-ing about shit nobody else gets!
time to test the backups!
time to test the backups!
Always a white knuckle event for me
You just described a convention.
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Also check out meetup.com for linux user groups and other events.
Nothing to install? Not with that attitude!
Start a 10" rack.
Going into spring/summer that's ideal, I wanna go places do things. Mid winter, I'm feature creeping till something breaks.
OP, totally understand, but this is a level of success with your homelab. Nothing needs fiddling with. Now, there is a whole Awesome Self Hosted list you could deploy on a non-production server and run that through the paces.
You have an intrusion detection system set up, right? A server watching your network's traffic, looking for signs that systems on your network have been compromised, and to warn you? Snort or something like that?
Oh. You don't. Well, that's probably okay. I mean, probably nothing on your network has been compromised. And probably nothing in the future will be.
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You have all your devices attached to a console server with a serial port console set up on the serial port, and if they support accessing the BIOS via a serial console, that enabled so that you can access that remotely, right? Either a dedicated hardware console server, or some server on your network with a multiport serial card or a USB to multiport serial adapter or something like that, right? So that if networking fails on one of those other devices, you can fire up minicom or similar on the serial console server and get into the device and fix whatever's broken?
Oh, you don't. Well, that's probably okay. I mean, you probably won't lose networking on those devices.
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All of your systems are set up, but are they capable of being redeployed using a configuration management software package? Ansible or something like that?
Oh. They're not. Well, that's probably okay. I mean, you could probably go manually reproduce configurations, more or less.
Do you have a spinning fish display in front of your homelab server, right? We all know the spinning fish improves performance and security, it is a indispensable part of homelabbing
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