Containers and Docker has always been bit mystery to me and I wanted to learn more about them forever. And when I got my new NAS, I finally decided to dive head on. Since then, I have discovered whole new side of technology and my homelab is more complex now :D. During my last try,
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Installing Portainer-CE in QNAP
Few months ago, I finally got NAS at my home. It is something I wanted to buy for very long time but was always torn between make my own using truenas or get prebuilt (among others) like QNAP or Synology. I was able to get QNAP TS-453D 4G version. My main purpose to get this
pfSense – my new choice of router
After my not so great experience with prosumer grade router UDM, I got more curious and tried to look for alternative of that. And I found that there are more than few options available… some of which are open source and free. Among them pfSense was seem to be popular and offered similar feature with
Headless installation of Raspbian
Do you happen to have a situation where you have spare Raspberry Pi laying around and get some project in mind… but don’t have spare monitor/keyboard/mouse? Or you are simply lazy like me to get off desk to put things together ? I found out that it is really simple to actually do headless installation
Monitoring SQL Server using Alerts
There are many after market tools available to monitor health of SQL Server. But with help of built-in tools you can actually create some pretty neat solution by yourself too. And one of the most handy tool is “Alerts” in SQL Server. With help of Alerts you can monitor SQL Server Events, Various Performance Conditions
Send emails using Database Mail … from SQL Server
Back in Pre SQL Server 2005 editions of SQL Server there was nice feature called SQL Mail which basically allowed users to send email from within database server. But that system has many dependencies and major one was requirement of Microsoft Exchange… thus usage was severely limited to enterprise customers who has resources to setup
Setting up Domain Controller in Virtual System … Part II
So after setting up Domain Controller (DC) next step is to configure workstations and add them into newly created Domain. It is actually not that difficult part but during my early trials I spent quite a bit time to make these workstations connect to DC. Because even though they were part of same network they