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May 21, 2024
in dev-ops, homelab
4 min read

TrueNAS Scale Pool Metrics

TrueNAS Core, the BSD based version of TrueNAS, includes metrics outputs that come with pool usage statistics, something you may expect from a storage operating system. TrueNAS Scale, the Linux base version includes many performance metrics that you can export, but surprisingly not pool usage.

For my home metrics, I use Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Grafana. To solve the lack of pool usage metrics, I started considering the project https://github.com/bdinpoon/upsmonitor which I use to take UPS metrics and report them to InfluxDB.

This led me to the following steps to collect TrueNAS pool metrics, through InfluxDB and Grafana. I hope it helps you too!

November 24, 2023
in dev-ops, homelab, meta
11 min read

How I Publish This Site

I've previously written about how I run Docker at home. This infrastructure is a core component to running this site. In addition to Docker, Gitlab is the orchestrator for how I run many of my homelab services. In this post we will take a look at how I take Markdown, and with the power of Material for MkDocs, deploy the site you are currently reading.

September 16, 2023
in dev-ops, homelab
7 min read

How I Run Docker at Home

Running container workloads at home is farily accessible, many consumer/homelab products support Docker containers out of the box. Products like Unraid, Proxmox LXC, TrueNAS Scale, and Synology all provide easy ways of running Docker containers.

June 11, 2023
in dev-ops, homelab
4 min read

Relative Paths with Docker and Portainer

I run docker workloads at home through Portainer. Some time ago I wanted to standardize on Docker Compose to manage container definitions via code, rather than configuring containers by hand in Portainer. Luckily, Portainer has the concept of "stacks", just their way of handling Docker Compose. Stacks can be used a few ways in Portainer, configured directly in Portainer or referenced from a Git repository, such as Gitlab. This is an attractive feature, even for a homelab, as it allows built in version control of your Docker Compose file, with a built in backup (sort of)!