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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how to use Ansible to configure an Ubuntu VM for use with NVIDIA based AI workloads in vSphere

Update: Hoarder has now been renamed to Karakeep due to a trademark issue I’ve been on a mission recently to regain control of my data.

Late to the party or not, I have been using containers in my lab more and more and that has led me to Portainer ….