Things have been quiet here for a long time. I hope to address that going forward. I plan to post things more regularly about what I am doing and the things I am learning. Right now things are in a state of flux and I am hoping things settle down here very soon. More details to come, especially related to my new homelab setup and how I am managing everything.

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I am running Canonical’s MicroCloud in my homelab and use it to host a number of different services. As part of deploying those services, I have been creating Ansible roles and playbooks to manage the configuration of each service. The services are a variety of things that I use, such as a Git server (Gitea), a reverse proxy for web applications (Nginx Proxy Manager), a Minecraft server (Crafty Controller), and several others. I’ve learned quite a bit about using Ansible and running services that other people access. In this post, I will describe a particular technical issue I ran into when running Docker inside a LXD VM that resulted in abysmal network performance.

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In my previous career, I was expected to maintain a curated page listing my academic acolades. I will post that information on this site at some point in the future, but for now, I am planning to start fresh. This site will be dedicated to things that interest me. Mainly, I expect it will revolve around the various technology things I enjoy, especially my homelab setup and the various tehcnologies related to that. I am in the process of building out that homelab from the ground up and will document the process as I go. My plan is to try and “do the right thing”™. More details to come, but for now, let’s hope this doesn’t flop.

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