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Wikisailor: /* Management kiosk */

2026-02-24T00:23:05Z

Management kiosk

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	====[[Management kiosk]]====		====[[Management kiosk]]====

	A desktop Linux used to configure other VMs including Pfsense. As it is so sensitive i have kept it isolated on the MGT VLAN. There I have setup passwordless ssh to various other VMs as well. The host is called Lemon and has an IP Address of ~~MGT~~.20.		A desktop Linux used to configure other VMs including Pfsense. As it is so sensitive we have kept it isolated on the MGT VLAN. There I have setup passwordless ssh to various other VMs as well. The host is called Lemon and has an IP Address of 192.168.99.20.

	====[[CA Server]]====		====[[CA Server]]====

Wikisailor: /* Victoria Metrics */

2026-02-24T00:20:04Z

Victoria Metrics

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	Since '''[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]''' have already been installed it seemed only logical that pear should have some historical context so Victoria Metrics has been installed on a host imaginatively, named '''[[Victoria Metrics \| Victoria]]''', maybe it should be Victoria plum but Plum already exists.		Since '''[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]''' have already been installed it seemed only logical that pear should have some historical context so Victoria Metrics has been installed on a host imaginatively, named '''[[Victoria Metrics \| Victoria]]''', maybe it should be Victoria plum but Plum already exists.

	'''Update''' Victoria is to be decommissioned and is being replaced by the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango and it will also replace Pineapple and Granadilla at the same time the old pages will remain in place for reference but we assume that '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' notes will be more relevant to our '''[[Home Lab]]'''		'''Update''' Victoria is to be decommissioned and is being replaced by the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango and it will also replace Pineapple and Granadilla at the same time the old pages will remain in place for reference but we assume that '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' notes will be more relevant to our '''[[Home Lab]]'''. We will also have a new dashboard setup that will take on some of the monitoring roles and be able to control the operational components of the '''[[Home Lab]]'''

	===VPNNet VLAN===		===VPNNet VLAN===

Wikisailor: /* Prometheus & Grafana */

2026-02-22T07:52:06Z

Prometheus & Grafana

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	Two more hosts were created in the Infra network ( '''[[Pineapple]]''' and '''[[Granadilla]]''' ) to handle monitoring of the whole of the Pear network. probably overkill for a small virtual network but now it is done it does make seeing what is going on a bit easier. Further details of how the [[Prometheus & Grafana ]] work can be found '''[[Prometheus & Grafana \| here]]'''.		Two more hosts were created in the Infra network ( '''[[Pineapple]]''' and '''[[Granadilla]]''' ) to handle monitoring of the whole of the Pear network. probably overkill for a small virtual network but now it is done it does make seeing what is going on a bit easier. Further details of how the [[Prometheus & Grafana ]] work can be found '''[[Prometheus & Grafana \| here]]'''.

	'''Update''' Pineapple and Granadilla are to decommissioned and replaced with the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango		'''Update''' Pineapple and Granadilla are to decommissioned and replaced with the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango Pineapple and Granadilla notes pages will remain for reference but the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack \| Mango build notes]]''' will be more relevant in the evolving homelab

	====[[Victoria Metrics]]====		====[[Victoria Metrics]]====

Wikisailor: /* Victoria Metrics */

2026-02-22T07:49:40Z

Victoria Metrics

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	Since '''[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]''' have already been installed it seemed only logical that pear should have some historical context so Victoria Metrics has been installed on a host imaginatively, named '''[[Victoria Metrics \| Victoria]]''', maybe it should be Victoria plum but Plum already exists.		Since '''[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]''' have already been installed it seemed only logical that pear should have some historical context so Victoria Metrics has been installed on a host imaginatively, named '''[[Victoria Metrics \| Victoria]]''', maybe it should be Victoria plum but Plum already exists.

	'''Update''' Victoria is to be decommissioned and is being replaced by the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango and it will also replace Pineapple and Granadilla at the same time the old pages will remain in place for reference but we assume that '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' notes will be more relevant to our ~~homelab~~		'''Update''' Victoria is to be decommissioned and is being replaced by the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango and it will also replace Pineapple and Granadilla at the same time the old pages will remain in place for reference but we assume that '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' notes will be more relevant to our '''[[Home Lab]]'''

	===VPNNet VLAN===		===VPNNet VLAN===

Wikisailor: /* Victoria Metrics */

2026-02-22T07:48:37Z

Victoria Metrics

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	Since '''[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]''' have already been installed it seemed only logical that pear should have some historical context so Victoria Metrics has been installed on a host imaginatively, named '''[[Victoria Metrics \| Victoria]]''', maybe it should be Victoria plum but Plum already exists.		Since '''[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]''' have already been installed it seemed only logical that pear should have some historical context so Victoria Metrics has been installed on a host imaginatively, named '''[[Victoria Metrics \| Victoria]]''', maybe it should be Victoria plum but Plum already exists.

			'''Update''' Victoria is to be decommissioned and is being replaced by the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango and it will also replace Pineapple and Granadilla at the same time the old pages will remain in place for reference but we assume that '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' notes will be more relevant to our homelab

	===VPNNet VLAN===		===VPNNet VLAN===

Wikisailor: /* Prometheus & Grafana */

2026-02-22T07:44:03Z

Prometheus & Grafana

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	Two more hosts were created in the Infra network ( '''[[Pineapple]]''' and '''[[Granadilla]]''' ) to handle monitoring of the whole of the Pear network. probably overkill for a small virtual network but now it is done it does make seeing what is going on a bit easier. Further details of how the [[Prometheus & Grafana ]] work can be found '''[[Prometheus & Grafana \| here]]'''.		Two more hosts were created in the Infra network ( '''[[Pineapple]]''' and '''[[Granadilla]]''' ) to handle monitoring of the whole of the Pear network. probably overkill for a small virtual network but now it is done it does make seeing what is going on a bit easier. Further details of how the [[Prometheus & Grafana ]] work can be found '''[[Prometheus & Grafana \| here]]'''.

			'''Update''' Pineapple and Granadilla are to decommissioned and replaced with the '''[[Unified Monitoring Stack]]''' on Mango

	====[[Victoria Metrics]]====		====[[Victoria Metrics]]====

Wikisailor: /* General Docker Hosts */

2026-02-09T11:06:15Z

General Docker Hosts

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	===[[Docker Hosts \| General Docker Hosts]]===		===[[Docker Hosts \| General Docker Hosts]]===

	There are some other much more general docker applications that are not very computationally intensive as the AI apps are but they are arguably more useful as information retrieval. To avoid having all of the docker containers in one place we have decided to have some of the '''[[Data Archive \|data archival containers]]''' on Blackberry on Pear and some on Tayberry on Kiwi, although Kiwi is a smaller and less capable host it has still got large storage pool and enough compute to solve a wide variety of puzzles at present the main application for Kiwi is to host the [[OpenAlex]] index through Tayberry's docker.		There are some other much more general docker applications that are not very computationally intensive as the AI apps are but they are arguably more useful as information retrieval. To avoid having all of the docker containers in one place we have decided to have some of the '''[[Data Archive \|data archival containers]]''' on Blackberry on Pear and some on Tayberry on Kiwi, although Kiwi is a smaller and less capable host it has still got large storage pool and enough compute to solve a wide variety of puzzles at present the main application for Kiwi is to host the '''[[OpenAlex]]''' index through Tayberry's docker.

	===Future VMs===		===Future VMs===

Wikisailor: /* General Docker Hosts */

2026-02-09T11:05:55Z

General Docker Hosts

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	===[[Docker Hosts \| General Docker Hosts]]===		===[[Docker Hosts \| General Docker Hosts]]===

	There are some other much more general docker applications that are not very computationally intensive as the AI apps are but they are arguably more useful as information retrieval. To avoid having all of the docker containers in one place we have decided to have some of the data archival containers on Blackberry on Pear and some on Tayberry on Kiwi, although Kiwi is a smaller and less capable host it has still got large storage pool and enough compute to solve a wide variety of puzzles at present the main application for Kiwi is to host the ~~openalex~~ index through Tayberry's docker.		There are some other much more general docker applications that are not very computationally intensive as the AI apps are but they are arguably more useful as information retrieval. To avoid having all of the docker containers in one place we have decided to have some of the '''[[Data Archive \|data archival containers]]''' on Blackberry on Pear and some on Tayberry on Kiwi, although Kiwi is a smaller and less capable host it has still got large storage pool and enough compute to solve a wide variety of puzzles at present the main application for Kiwi is to host the [[OpenAlex]] index through Tayberry's docker.

	===Future VMs===		===Future VMs===

Wikisailor: /* Linux Docker And GPU Passthrough */

2026-02-09T11:02:09Z

Linux Docker And GPU Passthrough

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	Now that Nvidia drivers for Linux appear to be working the GPU is now passed through to a Linux server VM, hostname quince. To make the best use of the GPU Quince has docker containers for Jellyfin and Ollama. Other VMs will be setup to host other docker containers that do not need or benefit from the GPU. More details acn be found [[Linux Docker And GPU Passthrough \| Here ]].		Now that Nvidia drivers for Linux appear to be working the GPU is now passed through to a Linux server VM, hostname quince. To make the best use of the GPU Quince has docker containers for Jellyfin and Ollama. Other VMs will be setup to host other docker containers that do not need or benefit from the GPU. More details acn be found [[Linux Docker And GPU Passthrough \| Here ]].

			===[[Docker Hosts \| General Docker Hosts]]===

			There are some other much more general docker applications that are not very computationally intensive as the AI apps are but they are arguably more useful as information retrieval. To avoid having all of the docker containers in one place we have decided to have some of the data archival containers on Blackberry on Pear and some on Tayberry on Kiwi, although Kiwi is a smaller and less capable host it has still got large storage pool and enough compute to solve a wide variety of puzzles at present the main application for Kiwi is to host the openalex index through Tayberry's docker.

	===Future VMs===		===Future VMs===

Wikisailor: /* Nameserver */

2026-02-08T17:46:14Z

Nameserver

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	There is only one nameserver at the moment called ns1 Infra.11. It is the only host on the Infra VLAN.		There is only one nameserver at the moment called ns1 Infra.11. It is the only host on the Infra VLAN.

	'''The update''' to this that NS1 was replaced by a container called '''[[Nameserver \| ctns1]]'''. The container is lighter and faster to start/stop than a VM but the DNSMasq functions the same while consuming ~~les~~ resources.		'''The update''' to this that NS1 was replaced by a container called '''[[Nameserver \| ctns1]]'''. The container is lighter and faster to start/stop than a VM but the DNSMasq functions the same while consuming less resources.

	====[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]====		====[[Prometheus & Grafana ]]====