Recently been setting up my TrueNAS scale server for home and getting into all the docker stuff. Was using proxmox containers before I never really experienced the joy of docker
One of the issues I had was things like pihole etc and my network going down with a reboot and other such fiddling I was doing on the TrueNAS box, so decided to try a Raspberry Pi… just can’t get them without ridiculous prices ( I am in Thailand), so hopped onto AliExpress and got me a Orange Pi 4 LTS with the 16emmc storage etc.
Just finished setting it up with Armbian bullseye, docker and obviously headless. in idle its about 2-3W and under pressure a whopping 5W… My TrueNAS idles at about 130W (dual Xeon and lots of rusty spinners).
Its working great and surprisingly fast. Currently have the following running on it through docker:
Portainer
pihole (DNS and DHCP)
tailscale
searxng
tor
swag
dashy
watchtower
Basically want it as my “Never go down” server so no matter what happens to other machines, I can get access to my network and the UPS will keep it powered for a long time.
I already pay for the BitWarden Hosting… that i one I would prefer out of my network tbh.
Kinda why I use Dropbox even though I have Nextcloud installed. Shit happens with ISP’s etc. and with the stuff outside, I have multiple ways to get to it, with it on my own network it “feels” unreliable. tbh.
I might even look at a linode thing to house that sort of thing. Work out costs etc. Problem is wife shares dropbox and she is incredibly hard to train. Getting her on dropbox vs. carrying around a USB stick took 2-3years. lol
You could install a file sharing service, if you got storage attached to it. Like WeTransfer. I don’t like using it so I’m looking for a self hosted alternative.
Anoter thing I was looking into is Gluetun. It’s a container that allows you to pass through a VPN or a proxy any container you have.
Last but not least a Youtube downloader might come in handy I guess.
Can’t think of much more you might want to install. You’re basically covered for what a device like that can do.
Maaaybe a dashboard for metrics on your containers, but that’s not really needed at the end of the day. It’s more for style points.
Prometheus and Grafana can easily be run on the TrueNAS server, so not really “essential”. Dashy is not really either, but its a good “homepage” for all my internal sites etc.
Still have to workout how to do nice graphs/metrics tracking with grafana. Seems like of lot of setting up etc. Really just want a good dashboard with minimal of having to fiddle with 1000’s of things.
