Automated VCF 9 Offline Depot
One Bash script turns a fresh Ubuntu VM into a VCF 9 Offline Depot: Traefik, Nginx, basic auth, and Let’s Encrypt wildcard certs via Cloudflare DNS.
- Artificial Intelligence | Automation | Docker | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Infrastructure Deep Dive (Part 2)
Part 2 of my self-hosted AI stack series. I cover container resource sizing, dual-network isolation via Traefik and Cloudflare Tunnels, and every database powering the stack — PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Qdrant, MinIO, MongoDB, SQLite, Prometheus, and Jaeger — plus the backup strategy for each.
New VMware Cloud on AWS Host: i7i.metal-24xl
We’ve expanded the VMC fleet with the new i7i (i7i.24xlarge) host type. Powered by Intel Emerald Rapids processors with PCIe Gen5 connectivity, it delivers the fleet’s highest single-core performance and memory bandwidth, making it well suited for latency-sensitive workloads and high-performance vSAN configurations. Key Technical Specs: This host brings a blend of usable options to…
- Artificial Intelligence | Automation | Docker | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
My Self-Hosted AI Stack: Architecture Overview (Part 1)
A walkthrough of my self-hosted AI stack: Ollama, Open WebUI, ComfyUI, Whishper, n8n, Qdrant, SearxNG, and a full observability layer — all running on my own hardware with Docker Compose.
Free Octopus Agile Battery & Solar Calculator: 5 Batteries Tested
I am quite a heavy consumer of electricity at home. This is primarily driven by my lab but having a young son and two golden retrievers means more washing and drying. As a result I am always looking to try and reduce the electrical costs as it’s not cheap in the UK. Problem Sadly my…
- Ansible | Artificial Intelligence | Containers | Devops | Homelab | NVIDIA | Traefik | VMware
Automating the deployment of my Homelab AI Infrastructure
Learn how to use Ansible to configure an Ubuntu VM for use with NVIDIA based AI workloads in vSphere
Using Content Libraries in VMC to deploy software faster
How to leverage Content Libraries to deploy into VMware Cloud on AWS faster.
Blog Performance & SEO Improvements: Cloudflare, Privacy & More
I have spent the Christmas break making some improvements to this blog. A lot of these are in “the backend” These help improve the performance, Privacy, SEO, and I have also added some security best practices. Most of these changes were done more as an exercise than due to a specific requirement. I also had…
How to Expand Ubuntu Disk Space: LVM pvresize Step-by-Step
How to expand disks from the command line in Ubuntu. This is something I do fairly frequently, and I can never remember the steps. So I decided to write them down. 1. Rescan for disk size changes sudo tee /sys/class/block/sda/device/rescan 2. Extend the physical partition (if needed) sudo growpart /dev/sda 3 3. Resize the physical…
VMware Cloud on AWS Time Sync & NTP Configuration
How to use the Amazon Time Sync Service in a VMC environment
vSAN Cluster Shutdown – Orchestration
How to safety shutdown a vSAN Environment
- Cloudflare | Devops | Github | Wordpress
How I upgraded my blog as a Static Website with GitHub Actions and Cloudflare
I wanted to automate the publishing of my blog from the authoring side to the public side. These are some of the improvements I made. What I started with My previous setup, involved a locally hosted WordPress instance. This runs in my homelab in an Ubuntu VM. This I will refer to as the authoring…
