I run Flame, Stringer, MeTube, Calibre-Web, AdGuard Home, PortainerCE, Teddit, Nitter, Whoogle, UpTime-Kuma, Plex, and Kiwix. I run straight VMs for my Unifi controller, Zerotier controller, and Home Assistant (HaOS). All of it sits on a locked-down Asustor AS6604 NAS I slapped 32GB of RAM into with 10TB split into 2 separate 5TB RAID-1 arrays as well as a RAID-1 nVME drive that houses just the NAS OS itself. I'm in an apartment so didn't have the room for anything bigger. It works well enough for me and thanks to ZeroTier I can securely access it from anywhere I have internet over an encrypted tunnel.
My personal pick of essential containers to spin up are Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Airsonic, Guacamole, and Xen Orchestra. My balance of productivity and media consumtion anytime, anywhere.
I have been using Droppy for my quick note taking but it's no longer being developed. I may switch to Trilium. I just took a look at their github thanks to your suggestion and it looks pretty good! Maybe a little overkill for my needs but that rarely stands in my way, lol. As Adam Savage says it "If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing!". Edit: Just stood up a Trilium docker container on my test environment and it seems to be very cool. Can even copy/paste texts with pictures, etc. and it seems like it saves live so you don't have to worry about hitting a save button. Definitely worth further testing when I get time! Would like to see if i could have it save to an external mount rather than an internal directory. When I first set it up it complained because I attempted that, lol. Probably just an environment variable i'm need to tweak
My personal "top X container images for home use", in no particular order of preference: pihole, portainer, gogs, grafana and watchtower. Personally I also run freeipa and AWX but that would be a wee bit outside normal home user's scope of use.
Mine for home use are: Portainer, Heimdall (lighter resources than Dashy), DuckDNS, MaridDB, Nginx Proxy Manager, Watchtower, Pi-Aleret, Glances, FreshRSS, and Home Assistant...
My top 5 are Portainer, Heimdall, Droppy, Ubooquity, and Chronograf. I was running some other stuff like Home Assistant, MariaDB, Grafana, and some data scrapers but I didn't really think the juice was worth the squeeze for Home Assistant given my small smart home device integrations, And the other stuff was just to scrape and graph stats for Proxmox, etc. Which I could do with Chronograf and InfluxDB a little more cleanly for my liking. Portainer I just use as a quick visual of logs, status, etc. I set up everything using Docker-Compose yml files.
How do you create the cloud-init template to deploy Kubernetes nodes, while using vsphere. Also, do you have a write up on how to install rancher on a vsphere cluster.
So, it is meta top 5))) I was expecting something like smart home applications, documents and photos managers and etc... But all was about how to easily manage and run the things for the higher level, so you may provide all possible solutions in easiest way. It is ... Funny:)
I build my own orchestration management solution because all public available ones have severe pitfalls and shortcomings. If you are new to building up your cluster AVOID using any GUI at all cost so that you actually learn how things work. Using solutions like the ones mentioned in this video will quite literally teach you next to nothing.
Orange hat, thank you for your comment! Honestly, it is a learning experience getting the management solutions themselves working. I find every little experience with Docker and Kubernetes teaches me something new.
@@VirtualizationHowto Yeah you can learn a lot using them but you're learning from the top down instead of the bottom up (which is bad)... and the sad part about all the premade solutions is that you are basically forced into an ecosystem. Then limited by the scope of that ecosystem and subject to their changes such as when kubernetes dropped docker support.
Great video Brandon! 🚀If anyone’s looking for more Docker videos, we’ve released a web-based Docker viewer and a logging tutorial to help the community too 💪
Reynaldo, yes Pioneer on the wall for sure! So far, I have noticed a little bit of a discrepancy. However, it does a nice job knocking the heat out of the room with all the equipment in there and that is what I was after. So far, I haven't had any trouble with the unit so impressed with it for now.
Virtualization... inside virtualization.... inside virtualization.... WE NEED GO DEEPER!!! 😀🤣😂😁 I saw like 6th vm inside one and another. If you have production servers with this sucking deep VR. You will get insane drop of computing power. It's great for LABS and testing purposes... but not for production.
If you are looking for images to run in your homelab, you are doing it backwards. You run what you require to achieve your goals. Otherwise its like hiring managers to manage your non existent product, instead of building product.
A lot of folks are looking to learn, specifically looking to learn DevOps and k8s. These homelabs are a necessity, their a hobby, thus they're not doing it backward, the fact they're doing it at all is positive. If these folks were all out trying to start a business or whatever then you'd be dead right.
nathan, thanks for the comment! Definitely words of wisdom. However, one thing I have found is everyone learns differently. I have often been better at reverse engineering as opposed to figuring out the building blocks first. It provides more motivation if you can stand up working solutions first for home labbers, then understand how they work. However, to your point, you have to take the effort to understand the underlying concepts.
Personally I learn this way, trying to do something and everything I have is built to achieve a goal, etc. Never wanted to learn "DevOps", and frankly the saying annoys me, for me it was basically a necessity from writing code for hobby projects since I was 11, DevOps to me just seems like a way for people to make themselves sound like a software engineer without writing any code.
@@chrisa.1740 For a home lab? Lighter weight (i.e. needs fewer resources). Though, other than for learning purposes, if (a) you have something that needs a VCS and (b) have gone with git, your best solution is a private repo or 5 on a public server from one or more of the leaders (github,atlassian,gitlab). If it's important enough to version control, it's important enough to store off-site.
Call me a privacy nut but I wonder how much phoning home these containers are doing? I know some have google analytics built into them like Portainer does(did?) And years of being a sys admin I'm fluid in the CLI. I keep snapshots of my shell configs because I'm always tweaking. I have a stand-alone config just for aliases. I have an alias for my aliases list 😆
As someone just getting into docker because I wanted to use Gotify, I hate it, seems like the only tools available are for managing other containers, docker and everything is encapsulated in multiple layers of unnecessary docker/container/kubernetes jargon. Gonna go back to using handwritten systemd services and some old school chroot based containerization scripts because this docker garbage is driving me nuts and as someone who likes efficient, streamlined, and logically organized systems I just can't get behind using docker. I mean for gods sake the logo is a whale, what better way to symbolize bloat?!
I suggest renaming your chapters to something l ike "GitLab: ...", "GitLab: ...", otherwise it's hard to see what you#re talking about beforehand - I want to know if there's an interesting container I don't know about yet.
thank you for your comment lyth1um! I do have 6 server nodes at home that I am running clustered services as my home lab environment is critical for my work projects.
confuced as hell. container that hold container than van hold container than inside WM that can hold container that could in WM inside some other container. what is docker. what is easy print "hello world" docker container without docker container with containe in container
Not sure what you are doing at home, but I choose not to "work". That's an office lab docker set, not a home server. My favs: plexinc/pms-docker. jlesage/handbrake. openspeedtest. binhex/arch-minecraftserver. jlesage/filebot. I like the idea of pihole. Grafana might be cool too
For some of us, this kind of stuff isn't "work" but rather a fun hobby. Then again, there are plenty who use Homelab setups like Brandon detailed here as learning tools for career advancement or changes.
I run Flame, Stringer, MeTube, Calibre-Web, AdGuard Home, PortainerCE, Teddit, Nitter, Whoogle, UpTime-Kuma, Plex, and Kiwix. I run straight VMs for my Unifi controller, Zerotier controller, and Home Assistant (HaOS). All of it sits on a locked-down Asustor AS6604 NAS I slapped 32GB of RAM into with 10TB split into 2 separate 5TB RAID-1 arrays as well as a RAID-1 nVME drive that houses just the NAS OS itself. I'm in an apartment so didn't have the room for anything bigger. It works well enough for me and thanks to ZeroTier I can securely access it from anywhere I have internet over an encrypted tunnel.
iball, awesome list! I need to go through your list and see if there are others I need. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Iball, can you do intel quick sync video transcoding on that system? I was thinking to build new nas using the same Celeron processor
OOC, why a full VM for the UniFi controller?
You FAVOURITE containers are management containers? Your server does nothing but manage itself?
Yea i'm pretty confused too.
He’s a man of efficiency and organization, what more could you ask for?
Well put 😂 same thought here
@@troydehn2149 containers that actually do things?
@@lucashenke6557 well I assume he has containers that do things, but his favorite are the ones that manage everything🤷♂️
My personal pick of essential containers to spin up are Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Airsonic, Guacamole, and Xen Orchestra. My balance of productivity and media consumtion anytime, anywhere.
Honestly Nextcloud has a really good music app with subsonic support, so you prob don't need Airsonic.
Thank you! I didn't know that XO was available on docker, that's another vm decomm'd
Dashy might just've been what I've been looking for! Thanks!
My stack: Trilium (note taking app), Gitea (repo manager), Heimdall (dashboard), Vaultwarden (password manager), Plex, Transmission+OpenVPN, PiHole with DNSCrypt proxy, Watchtower, Dozzle (docker logs explorer) and Hoppscotch (API testing tool).
I have been using Droppy for my quick note taking but it's no longer being developed. I may switch to Trilium. I just took a look at their github thanks to your suggestion and it looks pretty good! Maybe a little overkill for my needs but that rarely stands in my way, lol. As Adam Savage says it "If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing!".
Edit: Just stood up a Trilium docker container on my test environment and it seems to be very cool. Can even copy/paste texts with pictures, etc. and it seems like it saves live so you don't have to worry about hitting a save button. Definitely worth further testing when I get time! Would like to see if i could have it save to an external mount rather than an internal directory. When I first set it up it complained because I attempted that, lol. Probably just an environment variable i'm need to tweak
Great video. I felt overwhelmed and clearly have a lot to learn. Sub earned.
My personal "top X container images for home use", in no particular order of preference: pihole, portainer, gogs, grafana and watchtower. Personally I also run freeipa and AWX but that would be a wee bit outside normal home user's scope of use.
What are you graphing on your Grafana instance?
Mine for home use are: Portainer, Heimdall (lighter resources than Dashy), DuckDNS, MaridDB, Nginx Proxy Manager, Watchtower, Pi-Aleret, Glances, FreshRSS, and Home Assistant...
Danie, thank you for your comment! I definitely will check out your list.
My top 5 are Portainer, Heimdall, Droppy, Ubooquity, and Chronograf. I was running some other stuff like Home Assistant, MariaDB, Grafana, and some data scrapers but I didn't really think the juice was worth the squeeze for Home Assistant given my small smart home device integrations, And the other stuff was just to scrape and graph stats for Proxmox, etc. Which I could do with Chronograf and InfluxDB a little more cleanly for my liking. Portainer I just use as a quick visual of logs, status, etc. I set up everything using Docker-Compose yml files.
Awesome list!
O.o
Great mash up Brandon, thanks
How do you create the cloud-init template to deploy Kubernetes nodes, while using vsphere. Also, do you have a write up on how to install rancher on a vsphere cluster.
I had a lot of problems with Vault/Consul/RabbitMQ at a gig. A single error in a YAML file would costs hours of trouble-shooting.
Ugghhh...yes YAML can be a pain!
So, it is meta top 5)))
I was expecting something like smart home applications, documents and photos managers and etc... But all was about how to easily manage and run the things for the higher level, so you may provide all possible solutions in easiest way. It is ... Funny:)
Portainer looks cool, thanks for bringing it to me
Awesome no problem Matt! You will love it
Thanks so much. I really like Partainer.... it is quite powerful.
Great video...really like Portainer and may try Dashy as an alternative to the Heimdall dashboard I've been running...Cheers!
Homarr is also a good alternative to Heimdall.
Nice "disco" behind you ;)) thanks for interesting video.
Thank you Swiat!
I build my own orchestration management solution because all public available ones have severe pitfalls and shortcomings. If you are new to building up your cluster AVOID using any GUI at all cost so that you actually learn how things work. Using solutions like the ones mentioned in this video will quite literally teach you next to nothing.
Orange hat, thank you for your comment! Honestly, it is a learning experience getting the management solutions themselves working. I find every little experience with Docker and Kubernetes teaches me something new.
@@VirtualizationHowto Yeah you can learn a lot using them but you're learning from the top down instead of the bottom up (which is bad)... and the sad part about all the premade solutions is that you are basically forced into an ecosystem. Then limited by the scope of that ecosystem and subject to their changes such as when kubernetes dropped docker support.
Great video Brandon! 🚀If anyone’s looking for more Docker videos, we’ve released a web-based Docker viewer and a logging tutorial to help the community too 💪
thanks for this video ^^
HI LECTURE!HOW I USE REMOTE DOCKER FOR CODE EXECUTION TO DEVELOP ONLINE IDE
Just wondering. What kind of businesses are you running at home? Most small businesses do not even have these setups.
He is running managers of containers. Isn't that clear enough?
My top pick is just, um... nextdns.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Can I do gpu/cpu passthrough in vmware 7 or 8 and what are the requirements? thanks
take a look at yacht its another alternative to portainer
Definitely will check it out!
Totally off topic, is that a pioneer minisplit that you have? Do you find the thermostat to be wildly off?
Reynaldo, yes Pioneer on the wall for sure! So far, I have noticed a little bit of a discrepancy. However, it does a nice job knocking the heat out of the room with all the equipment in there and that is what I was after. So far, I haven't had any trouble with the unit so impressed with it for now.
#1 - Pihole
Virtualization... inside virtualization.... inside virtualization.... WE NEED GO DEEPER!!! 😀🤣😂😁 I saw like 6th vm inside one and another. If you have production servers with this sucking deep VR. You will get insane drop of computing power. It's great for LABS and testing purposes... but not for production.
@piotrprs572, create a topic over on the VHT forums here: www.virtualizationhowto.com/community and let's discuss. Thank you for the comment!
What is a cluster?
Will crasplan run in a docker container?
Not sure on that front. I would check out the vendor docs and see if they have a solution available 👍
If you are looking for images to run in your homelab, you are doing it backwards. You run what you require to achieve your goals. Otherwise its like hiring managers to manage your non existent product, instead of building product.
A lot of folks are looking to learn, specifically looking to learn DevOps and k8s. These homelabs are a necessity, their a hobby, thus they're not doing it backward, the fact they're doing it at all is positive. If these folks were all out trying to start a business or whatever then you'd be dead right.
nathan, thanks for the comment! Definitely words of wisdom. However, one thing I have found is everyone learns differently. I have often been better at reverse engineering as opposed to figuring out the building blocks first. It provides more motivation if you can stand up working solutions first for home labbers, then understand how they work. However, to your point, you have to take the effort to understand the underlying concepts.
Personally I learn this way, trying to do something and everything I have is built to achieve a goal, etc. Never wanted to learn "DevOps", and frankly the saying annoys me, for me it was basically a necessity from writing code for hobby projects since I was 11, DevOps to me just seems like a way for people to make themselves sound like a software engineer without writing any code.
I prefer gitea over gitlab.
Cool, I need to check it out!
Why do you prefer Gitea of Gitlab?
@@chrisa.1740 For a home lab? Lighter weight (i.e. needs fewer resources). Though, other than for learning purposes, if (a) you have something that needs a VCS and (b) have gone with git, your best solution is a private repo or 5 on a public server from one or more of the leaders (github,atlassian,gitlab).
If it's important enough to version control, it's important enough to store off-site.
2:31 - "It is a gateway to many other solutions that..." ... some consider to be, *_unnatural_*
its super confusing how the audio and video are not synced
Call me a privacy nut but I wonder how much phoning home these containers are doing? I know some have google analytics built into them like Portainer does(did?) And years of being a sys admin I'm fluid in the CLI. I keep snapshots of my shell configs because I'm always tweaking. I have a stand-alone config just for aliases. I have an alias for my aliases list 😆
SB that is cool.....you should share your configs with the community. I know many like myself would enjoy taking a look! Thanks for sharing
Yeah, me too. I try to only self host open source applications.
👍🏻
As someone just getting into docker because I wanted to use Gotify, I hate it, seems like the only tools available are for managing other containers, docker and everything is encapsulated in multiple layers of unnecessary docker/container/kubernetes jargon. Gonna go back to using handwritten systemd services and some old school chroot based containerization scripts because this docker garbage is driving me nuts and as someone who likes efficient, streamlined, and logically organized systems I just can't get behind using docker. I mean for gods sake the logo is a whale, what better way to symbolize bloat?!
I suggest renaming your chapters to something l ike "GitLab: ...", "GitLab: ...", otherwise it's hard to see what you#re talking about beforehand - I want to know if there's an interesting container I don't know about yet.
good suggestion @webfreezy, thank you for your comment!
i dont get it why running clustering stuff at home, unless u got 2+ server/hosts.
thank you for your comment lyth1um! I do have 6 server nodes at home that I am running clustered services as my home lab environment is critical for my work projects.
@@VirtualizationHowto in that case its more like work enviroment, not homeuser case :-) i hope you got some cold spares :D
I trust this guy, cause he's Chinese. They know all about this stuff.
LOL!
confuced as hell. container that hold container than van hold container than inside WM that can hold container that could in WM inside some other container.
what is docker. what is easy print "hello world" docker container without docker container with containe in container
ON WHAT OPERATING SYSTEM ? WINDOWS, UNIX, LIMUX, Android, iPhone, MAC, DOS ? LEARN HOW TO MAKE A GOD PReSENTATION FIRST!
Actually heimdall is better than dashy
Paul, thank you for yoru comment! I have tried Heimdall and didn't like it as much but I need to revisit with the latest version.
@@VirtualizationHowto okok !
Quite deadpan and unexisting way to express yourself
Not sure what you are doing at home, but I choose not to "work". That's an office lab docker set, not a home server. My favs: plexinc/pms-docker. jlesage/handbrake. openspeedtest. binhex/arch-minecraftserver. jlesage/filebot. I like the idea of pihole. Grafana might be cool too
For some of us, this kind of stuff isn't "work" but rather a fun hobby.
Then again, there are plenty who use Homelab setups like Brandon detailed here as learning tools for career advancement or changes.