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Deploying Rocky Linux 9.5 via PXE

In my home lab, I’m constantly [re]installing VMs for the various testing I am doing. It gets annoying having to mount the OS ISO in the VM to perform the install. Therefore, I created a PXE server so I could perform a network install of Rocky Linux 9.5. This document lists the configuration I performed

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Deploying Grafana in Rootless Podman

Per the Grafana web-site, Grafana OSS lets you visualize your data and optimize your performance. You can easily collect, correlate, and visualize data with beautiful dashboards using Grafana — the open source data visualization and monitoring solution that drives informed decisions, enhances system performance, and streamlines troubleshooting. The Grafana web-site provides instructions for deploying Grafana

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Rocky Linux Desktop Sharing via RDP

Your (Gnome) desktop on Rocky Linux can be shared using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). This guide will show you how to enable the RDP protocol using XRDP. Note: the commands executed assume you are running as the ‘root’ user. I know, I know, this is not recommended, that you should use ‘sudo’, etc., but

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Deploying Immich with rootless podman

Immich is a high-performance self-hosted photo and video management solution that allows you to share and synchronize photos and videos between multiple devices. The documentation provides instructions on how to install Immich with Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Portainer, Unraid, TrueNAS Scale, and others. But what if you, like me, want to install on Podman? That’s the

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