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Useful Links

Friendly links to available services

• Ombi Link - Link to Ombi service
• Mods Folder - Download mods and other files
• 7 Days to Die Game Server: 7d2d.peeps-lab.com:26900
• Minecraft Game Server: minecraft.peeps-lab.com:25565
• Valheim Game Server: valheim.peeps-lab.com:2456

Family Updates

Looking forward to back to school. Supplies purchased and Cathy is starting back on the 31st

Johnathan will be in 5th grade this year.

Straight A's for the first half of the year! Kiddo got to go skiing twice this year so far, perhaps another trip to Santa Fe if the snow holds past spring break.

February 2025 Vacation Photos & Videos

Vacation Videos

January 2025 Vacation Photos

Gun Range Trip with Krista

January 2025 Vacation Videos

Pictures of the fur babies

Pictures of the pets

Running Lab Blog

7/22/24	Working on this website, webserver stack, redhat IDM and AD integration
7/24/24	Veeam deployed, awaiting proxmox plugin to be released for testing; Unifi controller migration from local office-pc to VM; TP-Link 24 port switch should arrive; redo network stack
7/27/24	Minecraft server reinstalled with PufferPanel, to be added as subdomain @ minecraft.peeps-lab.com for Johnathan to share with friends; 8 port office switch removed from stack, unifi nanohd moved to tplink with poe injector. Considering adding bonded ports to any nodes with dual nics. Will probably add 7d2d routing at same time for 7d2d.peeps-lab.com to the game server. Waiting for additional ram for node 05
7/30/24	What a pain in the rear, enabled ldap and froze the NAS, reinstalled to freebsd 13.2 later version will need to do another code upgrade to latest stable. Back online after reinstall via BMC and new iso.
7/31/24	Updated to the latest 13.3 freebsd xigmanas code this morning via gui update, rebooted and success. Installed graylog server for remote syslog and have NAS connected now in case of future failures. Will probably get the rest of the "infrstructure" vm's/containers sending logging to this server long term.
8/1/24
8/2/24	new redhat file server setup, rhelnfsserver, trying to configure autofs mounts from the IDM implementation so each user gets the same /mnt/HomeDrive folder and i can share data
8/2/24 - part 2	Success for a change! Had to switch back to redhat documentation, but automount with roaming home directories are functional. Will work on getting additional shared mount location for all users added but this will do for now.
8/4/24	Took a few attempts at wrong /etc/hosts file modifications, but we have the script working to join new servers, add them to idm-all-hosts, and apply my sudo rules for [email protected]. Was getting weird reverse lookup results, finally got replica1.linux.peeps-lab.com installed and responding for a backup IDM host.
8/4/24
8/11/24	Ooops turns out adding another DNS server that points in a circle breaks things? who knew. Linux.Peeps-lab is now only using itself and external DNS for lookups, with a conditional forward to ad.peeps-lab.com for lookups there? think that is finally correct. Still using script to update the "shared" reverse lookup zone. Oh well work on fixes in the future
02/01/25	Long time no update, went ahead and configured backblaze b2 with rclone to protect the single nvme datastore i'm using with proxmox backup server. Got a nice sync script and recovery script that pulls it back down, tested on the old 4th gen host.
02/20/25	Ansible added to homelab, playbook to deploy from iso, patch redhat, and patch ubuntu hosts are working, just need to finalize the automatic addition to host file
02/22/25	Working on adding comments section to the website, slightly more complicated than I originally though. Ubuntu node.js backend via the revproxy and API calls.
02/22/25 part 2	Success! Turns out I was missing the cloudflared conf modifications, if I was using direct exposed http/https instead of my tunnel workaround for home internet I'd have prolly caught it faster. Differences between business grade and home internet. There's a link at the top for employment countdown with a working comments section, will add to rest of website.
02/24/25	Added forum to the website succesfully, worked easier as a subdomain for routing vs /forum as a folder.
03/11/25	Added Zabbix to the environment now and scripted out the installation via ansible playbook. 15 Hosts ingested and counting. Backblaze sync script working like a charm, email alerts and other functionality working now as well.
04/01/25	Well time for a new IT position, hopefully someone will hire me! Planning to devote the next month to getting the basic comptia certs, Linux+ will be my first, then Security+ and maybe something else. Would be a good idea to get the azure and aws fundamentals, not sure if GCP as well. Can't believe one of the GMKtec nodes with 13th gen i5 already failed in the proxmox cluster. Hope the 12th gen will last longer. Tested the proxmox backups and recovered all 5 lost VM's to the cluster, waiting on replacement node to arrive. Wonder if it be covered by warranty.