Building a Self-Hosted LLM Chat System Overview
This video explores how to set up and run LibreChat, a locally hosted, multi-component LLM interface integrating tools like Olama, …
Expanding My Ceph Cluster with a New Storage Node
The video documents the installation of new hardware for a node in the creator’s SE cluster, detailing challenges with sourcing a …
How I Configure Cloud-Init for Fast VM Startup
This video explains how to use Cloud-Init with Debian cloud images to automate VM initialization, covering image preparation, …
Fast Setup of an Open-Source Search Engine
This video explores Marginalia, an open-source search engine built as an alternative to commercial platforms, showing how to …
Building PostgreSQL HA the Quick and Clean Way
This video demonstrates how to set up a highly available PostgreSQL cluster using Patroni, ETCD, and HAProxy on Debian, covering installation, configuration, environment variables, database initialization, user setup, security rules, and Patroni management commands for failover and switchover, while also showcasing read/write splitting with HAProxy for improved scalability. Patroni installation First we install all the […]
Automated Debian VM Installs — Once you go auto…
The video demonstrates how to create and customize automated Debian installation images using Simple CDD, focusing on building a streamlined ISO for the new Debian Trixie release. It explains configuration steps, bug fixes, and workflow optimizations that allow rapid setup of multiple virtual machines with predefined settings such as SSH keys and keyboard layouts.
Did you buy a 🔌♨️🍞? No, a NAS for my Ceph cluster (AOOStar R1 N150)
I bought a new NAS box for my Ceph cluster. I loved the form factor when I saw it and knew that I had to have one. Launch your …
Logging at scale, clustering OpenObserve for ingestion.
NATS server installation We will install the nats server on 3 different hosts. sudo apt install nats-server Create a directory for the jetstream and give it the right owner. sudo mkdir /opt/nats sudo chown nats:nats /opt/nats Configure the nodes like below. One name and then routes to the other two hosts. server_name: node1 port: 4222 […]
Do you trust images?
We take a quick look into the SVG format an talk about the kinds of scripts that could be hidden in this image format. Become a …
Backup with Bacula to my S3 object storage in Ceph
I’ve installed a couple of Bacula instances by this point, and I wanted to start backing up my data locally. But in this case, I wanted …
I was wrong! – Debian 13 – Trixie
In this video we look into the new Debian release Trixie. We talk about RISC-V, timestamps and assembly security. Course about …
MergerFS – Really large storage pool locally.
I look into MergerFS, how to set it up, and how to use it. We also talk about different overheads and drawbacks of this solution …