There doesn’t seem to be a single, simple, straight forward tutorial online that shows how to get Lancache working with Pihole. These are the URLs that I referenced to get this working, so just listing them here in case you want to read more, but I will explain everything. URL Read more…
I will be running pi-hole on Ubuntun 22.04. The problem is, port 53 is already in use by my host, so lets sort this out first. Check if port 53 is in use You can check out this article to learn more about stopping systemd-resolve, or follow the below: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/ubuntu-how-to-free-up-port-53-used-by.html Read more…
Caveats First NGINX Proxy Manager (NPM) is running in its own docker-compose file (or “stack”) in portainer. I could not get it to use the hosts’s local IP to connect to containers running in different stacks. I therefore made these changes: NPM docker-compose Custom NodeJS image docker-compose Password Pusher docker-compose Read more…
This is a quick writeup on how to dockerize a nodejs application, using Github Actions to automatically build when you push to the main branch, and publish your image to Github Container Registry (ghcr) Create the dockerfile Inside your nodejs app run: touch dockerfile Add the folllowing code (change the Read more…
This is an extention to my “Home Assistant on Docker” post which can be found here: https://techstuff.leighonline.net/2023/03/10/home-assistant-in-docker-home-assistant-core/ Adding ESPHome to Home Assistant that is running in docker is quite straight forward. Just add the following to the existing docker compose: The ESPHome dashboard can be found here: http://<docker_host_ip>:6052 We can add Read more…
Backup the database We will connect to the MySQL container for this. Create a file that will store our backup command: touch export_sql_db.shPut this in the file: (It is recommended to create a user specifically for backing up as that user won’t have unnecessary privileges) Make this file executable with: Read more…
This assumes you already have a Portainer server set up and running. If not, you can set one up as such: You can log into this portainer instance using https://<ip of server>:9443 Now lets say you have a remote docker environment you also want to monitor. Run this command on Read more…
When running Home Assistant in docker, you do not get the supervisor capability which means you must install everything yourself. It is not a big deal because you just install it with docker and add the relevant integration in Home Assistant. Here I will give a good getting started write-up Read more…