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Run Your Own Mastodon Server on FreeBSD in a Potluck Container
6 mins
Mastodon Postgresql Redis Social Media Fediverse Ansible Potluck Freebsd Jails
Introduction # Have you heard of Mastodon? Mastodon is a self-hosted social networking service, where independently run servers federate content to each other using ActivityPub.
A Beginner's Guide to Building a Virtual Datacenter on FreeBSD with Ansible, Pot and More
10 mins
Wireguard Mesh Ansible Pot Consul VDC Potluck Freebsd Jails Traefik Nomad Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager Loki Openldap Mariadb Nginx Haproxy Syslog-Ng
Introduction # Back in 2020, a three-part blog series was published on building your own Virtual Datacenter (vDC).
How To Easily Set Up OpenLDAP and Matrix Synapse with Potluck Images
7 mins
Matrix Matrix-Synapse Pot Consul Openldap Potluck Freebsd Jails
Introduction # This is a post about running your own Matrix-Synapse instance using Pot jails. You will see that once the initial (and also not very complicated) configuration is complete, it takes only 6 commands to e.g. run a complete openldap server if you are using the Potluck container images.
How To Set Up a Minio Cluster From Potluck, Complete With Nextcloud, Monitoring And Alerting
16 mins
Nextcloud Pot Jails Monitoring Minio Prometheus Syslog-Ng Alertmanager Consul Nomad Traefik Grafana Beast-of-Argh Potluck Freebsd
Introduction # Let’s build a two-server minio storage system, complete with alerting and monitoring. Then to illustrate application, we’ll include a nextcloud pot image using minio S3 as file storage.
Throw-Away Browser on FreeBSD With "pot" Within 5 Minutes
3 mins
Oss Pot Jails Firefox Browser Freebsd
Overview # pot is a great and relatively new jail management tool. It offers DevOps style provisioning and can even be used to provide Docker-like, scalable cloud services together with nomad and consul (more about this in Orchestrating jails with nomad and pot).