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How To Use a GPU With Unraid And Docker
If you are running Unraid, I think there’s a fair chance you may be storing some media files (or “Linux ISOs” as commonly called by the Homelab community) on your server that could be transcoded or converted into different encodings. This could be done by dedicated CLI tools or apps or, more commonly, by applications that may convert these in real-time, like media server apps Plex or JellyFin. These tools may be able to use a spare GPU you have lying around to allow you to use that GPU compute to assist in the media encoding and decoding process, speed up the process and possibly free up compute on your CPU as that work is offloaded!
Automating Unraid Containers With Ansible
Unraid as a NAS OS provides an easy way to use old hardware for some network-attached storage. However, including docker can also be a great way to get network-attached computing by running docker containers on the host. But we want to do this with something other than just the included web console; management of containers can get tedious and make each container a bit of a snowflake rather than a repeatable deployable resource that will behave the same each time it’s deployed.
In this post, you will learn how to set up and use Ansible on an Unraid host to manage resources more efficiently and apply Infrastructure as Code to your Unraid system. With Ansible, you’ll also learn how to operate and configure just containers or use docker-compose stacks for more complex container needs and use Ansible’s templating engine to the fullest.
Unraid 321 Backups With Duplicati
Unraid provides an accessible platform for network-accessible storage for an affordable price point due to its ability to easily use second-hand consumer hardware for a new purpose. However, you may be led into a false sense of security with your data being protected by the Unraid array and its parity process. It will be essential to be cautious with this setup and to ensure the recommended backup processes fully protect your data.
This article will discuss recommendations for Unraid backups and how you can achieve this through a 3–2–1 backup strategy implemented with a single container called Duplicati. This container provides a highly polished feature set for an open-source product. The post assumes that you already have Unraid set up and are comfortable using Docker, the Unraid UI, and the Docker CLI tool.
Docker System Maintenance Guide
Like any sound long-running system, such as a generator or your long-running containers, there's always some maintenance that you should consider (and should be scheduled, too!). Without this maintenance, you might find the performance degrades over time or experience outright failures. In this post, we will explore some of these maintenance tasks you should consider to get a better handle on the docker engine you are running and ensure you're getting the most out of it.
7 Apps for your Homelab in 2024
If you are running a homelab or home server setup, this post is intended for you! If you are anything like me, you always look for something new to run in your lab. This article should help you find some popular applications being used and installed in 2024, along with some less-known ones that could unlock new features from your lab.
