Preparing a RHEL VM for a Home Lab Cloudera Cluster Big Data and Analytics
27 Aug 2023

Preparing a RHEL VM for a Home Lab Cloudera Cluster

In this post, I will explain how to prepare a RHEL 8.6 virtual machine (VM) for a home lab Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) cluster in a Hyper-V environment. The idea is to create a general VM that is specifically configured to run as a CDP node. Then we can duplicate it by exporting and importing it to some different virtual machines.
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Configuring Jellyfin Media Server Smart Home Ecosystem
22 Aug 2023

Configuring Jellyfin Media Server

In this post, I documented how I configured Jellyfin media server on my home server. Having Jellyfin media server up and running, I and all family members living in the same house can connect to the home network and watch movies stored on the media server. Not only that, by establishing a secure SSH channel from my home server to my VPS in the cloud, now I can watch movies from my media server from anywhere in the world.
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Creating a Secure Tunnel for Home Assistant Smart Home Ecosystem
12 Aug 2023

Creating a Secure Tunnel for Home Assistant

In this post, I'm documenting step by step on how I created a secure tunnel for my Home Assistant installation. By creating the tunnel, now I can connect to my Home Assistant website from anywhere via the internet. The benefit of being able to connect my Home Assistant from anywhere in the world is that now I can control all smart devices in my home not just while I'm home, but also while I'm away. So that if I forget turning off a switch or an appliance while away from home, I can turn it off using my smart phone.
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Installing and Configuring Home Assistant Stack on Docker Ubuntu Server 22.04 Smart Home Ecosystem
9 Aug 2023

Installing and Configuring Home Assistant Stack on Docker Ubuntu Server 22.04

In this post, I'm documenting how I installed and configured Home Assistant stack on Docker running on Ubuntu Server 22.04.02 LTS. Along with Home Assistant, I installed and configured mosquitto (mqtt) broker, zigbee2mqtt, hass configurator, and nodered. The objective is to establish a fundamental infrastructure, system, and applications supporting a smart home environment that I am now currently building.
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Orange Pi 5 Switching to Ubuntu Smart Home Ecosystem
1 Aug 2023

Orange Pi 5 Switching to Ubuntu

In this post, I'm documenting the switching process from Armbian Jammy to Ubuntu Jammy 22.04 for my Orange Pi 5. I have to switch because I have other Ubuntu desktop installation on my PC, and I am already accustomed to using Ubuntu. So to make a singular experience across my X86 and ARM64 machines, I switched my Orange Pi 5 OS to Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).
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Preparing Orange Pi 5 for a Home Server Smart Home Ecosystem
31 Jul 2023

Preparing Orange Pi 5 for a Home Server

In this post, I will prepare my Orange Pi 5 for a home server, starting from installing Armbian OS, installing and configuring Docker and Docker Compose, and running Portainer as an initial Docker container on top of it. Eventually I will install and configure Home Assistant Docker container and other related containers for home automation, but of course they will be for separate posts in the future.
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