Managing secrets with SOPS in your homelab
Sealed Secrets, Ansible Vault, 1Password or SOPS - there are multiple ways how and where to store your secrets. I went with SOPS and age with my ArgoCD GitOps environment.
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My TrueNAS custom NAS build (2025)
Since years I have an off-the-shelf NAS and always wanted to build my own. I wanted somthing I control myself, I am independent from any vendor support, something I can modify to my needs. So I build a rather old-skool NAS 6 months ago.
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Codeberg builds on Woodpecker CI in K8s
I moved all my repositories to Codeberg and I am very happy with it. While CI/CD and heavy build jobs cannot be lifted by Codeberg for all repositories hosted, the way to go is to outsource jobs into your own CI engine and onto your own hardware.
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Article series
You might enjoy reading my hlab article series about my homelab, k3s and being independant from big tech platforms.
Random wallpaper with swaybg
Setting a wallpaper in Sway, with swaybg, is easy. Unfortunately there is no way of setting a random wallpaper automatically out of the box. Here is a little helper script to do that.
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Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.
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