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Paperless-NGX on Docker

Posted on May 8, 2024 by michael

This should be easy, since paperless very wisely provides pre-made docker images for you. The problem is that they aren’t complete unless you’re running absolutely bog standard and not so secure. There are others out there who have published their own experiences and I’ll add to the pile since I didn’t find what I was …

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Docker Compose and the danger of copying existing configurations…

Posted on March 9, 2024 by michael

So, I have this docker server running a bunch of services through Traefik. This is working well for me as the services are picked up by traefik based on labels in the docker-compose for each app (instead of setting things up on the traefik side explicitly). Setting up a new app is painless with respect …

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Learning Docker, traefik and backing things up on a Proxmox host

Posted on January 7, 2024 by michael

Beginning to build a homelab has been an experience. Picking the underlying system on which to build took way too long. But now that I’ve settled on something (proxmox with a simple VM host for Docker, no portainer, k8s, no NAS. As few layers as possible for now) progress is being made.  I started by setting up a …

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