Same stacks, new home. The important part is the bottom row. A few days ago I gave my Hermes agents a machine of their own, and I ended that post quite happy that the whole fleet was now one box I can export and restore. Then I looked at my main Docker host and asked myself the same question. If its SSD died tonight, …

Same agents, three different homes in three months. In Part 1 I mentioned, almost in passing, that my very first Hermes agent was a plain localhost install and that I intentionally did not use Docker. I wanted the agent to have real access to the machine — after all, its job was to be my sysadmin. That decision did …

Say hi to Grimlock. The homelab has a new member. Say hi to Grimlock. I was not looking to grow the fleet, but a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q showed up for very little money, and I have a soft spot for those tiny form factor machines: no fan noise worth mentioning, sits anywhere, draws almost nothing. Cheap and quiet was …

One repository, one Dockhand, four machines. Megatron is still the odd one out. I did not plan any of this. It happened the way most homelab things happen: I ran one container, then five, then I could not remember which host was running what. True story. Many homelabers can validate its true. The first improvement was …

I did not start this because I was looking for a new observability platform. I started because I wanted to check what my multiple Hermes agents were doing. I have quite a few of them now (I am obsessed). Some run as profiles on the same machine, some run in Docker, and some live on other homelab machines. When I …

Why I set this up I got tired of Amazon Photos, at some point the Family setup was broken, my wife was locked out, the Amazon support was not super helpful after several calls. Also the price for storing videos has gone up and up and I felt that enough is enough, I needed to take ownership of my photos. In general I …