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Stephane Thirion

Saint-Germain-en-Laye https://www.archy.net 341 posts

Deploying Portainer and Agent in Docker Swarm Using a Compose File

Deploying Portainer and Agent in Docker Swarm Using a Compose File

In this post, we’ll walk through a Docker Compose file that deploys both the Portainer Server (Enterprise Edition) and the Portainer Agent on a Docker Swarm cluster

Stephane Thirion

5 Feb 2025 4 min read

How I Combined Nightscout and Ollama to Monitor My Son’s Glycemia with AI

How I Combined Nightscout and Ollama to Monitor My Son’s Glycemia with AI

As a parent of a child with diabetes, managing glycemia levels can feel like a full-time job...

Stephane Thirion

25 Jan 2025 5 min read

Setting Up Ollama with Open-WebUI: A Docker Compose Guide

Setting Up Ollama with Open-WebUI: A Docker Compose Guide

In this blog post, we'll dive into setting up a powerful AI development environment using Docker Compose. The setup includes running the Ollama language model server and its corresponding web interface, Open-WebUI, both containerized for ease of use.

Stephane Thirion

24 Jan 2025 4 min read

Deploying Hoarder on Docker Swarm

Deploying Hoarder on Docker Swarm

Deploying a modern, multi-container application in a Docker Swarm environment can be both exciting and challenging. In this post, we'll walk through a sample Docker Compose file that deploys the Hoarder application along with its necessary dependencies

Stephane Thirion

12 Jan 2025 4 min read

Deploying Uptime Kuma on Docker Swarm

Deploying Uptime Kuma on Docker Swarm

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that allows you to keep track of your websites, services, or APIs with ease. In this guide, we'll go through the process of deploying Uptime Kuma on a Docker Swarm cluster using a highly available configuration.

Stephane Thirion

10 Jan 2025 3 min read

Monitoring a Proxmox Cluster with Grafana and InfluxDB Using the Metric Server Menu

Monitoring a Proxmox Cluster with Grafana and InfluxDB Using the Metric Server Menu

Proxmox is a robust and scalable virtualization platform, and monitoring its performance is crucial for maintaining optimal operations. Integrating Grafana and InfluxDB provides an intuitive way to visualize and analyze your Proxmox cluster's metrics.

Stephane Thirion

30 Dec 2024 3 min read

Installing and Running Freqtrade on Docker Swarm

Installing and Running Freqtrade on Docker Swarm

Installing and managing Freqtrade, a cryptocurrency trading bot, on a Docker Swarm infrastructure might seem challenging at first. However, with the right configuration and a few tips, you can deploy a robust, scalable solution.

Stephane Thirion

30 Dec 2024 3 min read

Setting Up an AdGuard Home Cluster with Shared Configuration on Docker Swarm and Raspberry Pi

Setting Up an AdGuard Home Cluster with Shared Configuration on Docker Swarm and Raspberry Pi

In this blog, we will walk you through the steps to set up an AdGuard Home cluster, with one node running in a Docker Swarm environment and another node running on a standalone Raspberry Pi using a Docker configuration file.

Stephane Thirion

30 Dec 2024 4 min read

Building a Monitoring Stack on Docker Swarm with Prometheus, Grafana, and InfluxDB

Building a Monitoring Stack on Docker Swarm with Prometheus, Grafana, and InfluxDB

Monitoring environments is critical for maintaining the performance and reliability of modern applications. This blog post details the setup of a monitoring stack in Docker Swarm using Prometheus, Grafana, and InfluxDB. We'll focus on a practical example using NFS for shared storage...

Stephane Thirion

25 Dec 2024 3 min read

Ansible Playbook for Creating Multiple VMs with Sequential Naming in vCenter

Ansible Playbook for Creating Multiple VMs with Sequential Naming in vCenter

In this blog post, we will explore an Ansible playbook that creates multiple virtual machines (VMs) in a vCenter environment.

Stephane Thirion

11 Apr 2024 5 min read

Automating VM Deployment in VMware vSphere with Ansible

Automating VM Deployment in VMware vSphere with Ansible

This post aimed to provide a clear understanding of how the Ansible playbook functions for creating multiple VMs in a VMware vSphere environment.

Stephane Thirion

5 Apr 2024 4 min read

Installing Ansible on Ubuntu

Installing Ansible on Ubuntu

Quick post to run through Ansible installation on an Ubuntu OS.

Stephane Thirion

4 Apr 2024 2 min read

What is Ansible?

What is Ansible?

I've been tired of cloning my Ubuntu template to build again and again some Docker Swarm and Kubernetese node so I was looking for a quick and cheap way to automate these tasks. This is an ideal tool for homelab, it's lightweight and free !

Stephane Thirion

4 Apr 2024 3 min read

Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: A Comprehensive Comparison

Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes: A Comprehensive Comparison

Digging deep into Docker Swarm, i found some limitation when using it with ansible, and in the end with the high availability and upgrade process which I was not very satisfy with. So I explored, again, Kubernetese...

Stephane Thirion

3 Apr 2024 3 min read

Traefik and NetScaler Content Switching - lb and monitor

Traefik and NetScaler Content Switching - lb and monitor

The software I use, Ghost behave in a weird way and was sending http (instead of https) for all the pictures... The only way to correct this is to go through traefik to have a first reverse proxy and then going through the Netscaler stack

Stephane Thirion

29 Mar 2024 2 min read

From Docker to (Docker) Swarm

From Docker to (Docker) Swarm

As mentioned on a previous blog post, I need to get rid of all the different Docker container hosted on several virtual machines to simplify the management and the high

Stephane Thirion

27 Mar 2024 4 min read

Docker Swarm on Ubuntu

Docker Swarm on Ubuntu

Docker Swarm is a container orchestration tool that enables the deployment, scaling, and management of Docker containers across a cluster of machines

Stephane Thirion

23 Mar 2024 4 min read

Busy Light with ESP8266 mini D1 and Home Assistant

Busy Light with ESP8266 mini D1 and Home Assistant

Working at home is nice, having the chance to have my own room for that is ever more lucky. But still I'm working at home and family just

Stephane Thirion

17 Mar 2024 3 min read