Imagine always knowing exactly who is in which room of your home - and all automatically. With Home Assistant, an ESP32 and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) tracking, you can achieve precise room presence detection. In this blog article, I explain step by step how you can do this with the Read more
Wallos is an open source web application designed to manage personal subscriptions and expenses. It offers features such as subscription tracking, category management, multi-currency support with exchange rate integration and privacy protection. Users can also benefit from customizable categories, mobile accessibility and various notification methods. Wallos enables easy management of expenses and Read more
Docker has revolutionized the way developers develop, test and deploy software. In this article, we compare two basic tools that are used when using Docker: Docker Run and Docker Compose. We use Portainer and Docker Networks as examples to illustrate their application and Read more
Imagine you've set up a fantastic home lab. There's a Home Assistant running for your smart home, a Nextcloud for your data, maybe a Plex server for media and a Pi-hole to block ads. All of these services work wonderfully - but they have one huge problem: they are Read more
In this blog article, I will show you how to set up an Ubuntu Virtual Machine (VM) with Docker and all the essential tools. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the entire process, from installing the VM to setting up Docker and installing the necessary tools for your development work or Read more
Portainer is an open source management platform designed to simplify and automate the management of Docker and Kubernetes environments. It offers a user-friendly web interface that allows even less experienced users to effectively manage container orchestration platforms. These are some key features of Portainer: Portainer is particularly useful for organizations looking to get started with Docker. Read more
What is Healthchecks.io? Healthchecks.io is a monitoring service specifically designed to monitor periodically executed tasks (like cronjobs). It works by waiting for a "sign of life" from your scripts - a so-called "ping". When a scheduled script is successfully executed, it sends a ping to Healthchecks.io. If this ping does not occur, Read more
Some time ago my WordPress website crashed fatally after a failed plugin update. The really fatal thing was that I didn't notice it at all. For more than a day, when calling my website, only an error was displayed. But why didn't I get any information about it? That is unfortunately Read more
In the era of microservices, Docker is considered the non plus ultra. Even front-end applications like Angular or back-end applications like Spring Boot (Java) can be easily used in Docker containers. When presenting an application to a larger group, this can come in handy. When using your own server Read more