For about 15 years now, I have been using different Synology DiskStations (DS) as the backbone of my data storage. These are excellent systems with some added value. In fact, for quite a few years, my DS718+ was my only server. Nowadays, I split out server tasks and data storage, and have introduced Traefik as reverse proxy and single point of entry. This leaves the challenge of getting certificates from this reverse proxy to my Synology NAS to secure all traffic with HTTPS.

For many years, I had been using Rainloop as a fallback webmail client. Since Rainloop is no longer maintained, I recently switched to SnappyMail. Having spent lots of time to set up Traefik, Authelia, etc. I of course want to use single sign-on with as many services as possible. When switching to SnappyMail, I picked up this topic one more time and solved it for me.

This may be my shortest post in quite a while, but sometimes also small things bring large benefit. I recently got a new electric toothbrush with a nice glass charger. However, there was no stand or holder for the heads, leading to these flying around the bathroom shelves. To improve this, I hacked together a minimal stand from leftover pieces.

As shown in one of my last posts, I operate a number of devices and services at home. Until now, these had been distributed across my home, wherever there was power and network available. This was not a very pleasant situation. This, I decided to build a shelf for these (and future) devices.

As shown in my last post, I run a number of Docker containers. For most of these, I let Docker create a default network. However, by default Docker is rather wasteful with its address space, leading to conflicts in my networks. Once identified, resolving this is straightforward though.

I have been getting multiple requests recently to give an overview over my homelab. I will do this in this article. I will include some of the history, but ignore many of the experiments I tried and failed over the years (Banana Pi, RPi-based GlusterFS, easily scalable Kubernetes on RPis, Docker on ARMv6, etc.).