@elliot Like vlans? or actually do something like "Software Defined"? I'm doing that now with #lxd and #ovn! I spin up new networks ( that have their exit route inside of my physical network). When I need some seperation.. I do it inside of these networks and ACL them.. Maybe to damn complicated because nothing much changes :)

Starting to get back to my #ansible bag! Super simple like rebooting my #lxd and #ovn clusters after updating one at a time if they need it.!! Next time I do it, everything will blow up! 😂

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

@ChrisUplus @travis I'm using #OVN with #LXD Cluster ( OS virtualization type thing)... and it's such a cool feature like you can create all these networks that live inside the cluster on all the nodes you want.. I love it.. Until there is troubleshooting to do.. their isn't lots of documentation.. hard to find resources.. help is just hard to come by. I probably wouldn't do it again, but i'm already invested, hard to come out of it.. Vlan's also are great.

Nevermind that bitch did show up.. Don't know how to fix it, but it seems like #ovn and #lxd are tightly coupled in the way you use it's network forward zones

@62885088530343 @zrail Yea! I'm using something called #ovn which is a software defined network meaning I can make networks inside of an lxd cluster I use that has any cider range I want. So lets say my homelab is a 192.168.x.x.x.. If i want to make a network in my cluster 172.168.x.x and put instances in it, I will have to route some way from my physical network to my clustered network. I use BGP to do that. My cluster advertises whatever networks inside of it to my router.

@OGSH Yea I already went off the deep end with networking. I'm using #OVN and I have 3 different software defined networks for like 10 instances 😂 . I had a ton of problems with it in the past, but when I dedicated 3 small vms' to the control plane of ovn.. I really have not needed to think about it.

It's always something small with lxd.. It's pretty great software, but when it breaks... it's really hard to figure out what is wrong with some of these "exciting" features.

Trying to play this out in my head. I'm using #OVN #SDN #networking with that I can create any cider network I want across hosts. So now I can put "internal-services" inside these natt'd networks and the only way you can get in is through my reverse proxy. My physical network won't even have any access , no routes. I can do this with ACL's, but this way I won't need to manage all that. I just gotta worry about the entry point. or are ACL's better?

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

fack!!! Finally got the #homelab on #proxmox sort of stable with all the #ovn networking and nfs storage and all. Shit was a mission and #uptime-kuma is pissed 😂 !

#selfhosted #selfhosting

Because my dumbass didn't plan anything lost my #ovn networks again.. I'm using a hypervisor now, I created a couple of ovn vms that will be my control plane and won't be co mingled with my host. That way I can break all my lxd host and my networks should be ok. Let's hope! I just have to re-create all the networks.. Since i'm a pro are redoing work.. I'm moving through it pretty fast.

#homelab #proxmox #ovn #networking #selfhosted #selfhosting #dumbass

Having a good ol time adding #proxmox to the #homelab environment! I have added one more #proxmox node with #lxd sitting atop of it with #ovn and of my os / system containers. So far it's good! I'mma be a vm host type dude :)

#selfhosted #selfhosting

That's an interesting thing happened in the #homelab tonight. My #selfhosted #pleroma instance was just not connecting from the outside world.. I blamed the networking... Since I have been having problems with #ovn. Well, when they say it's always #dns... That shit is fo real! I remembered my reverse proxy looks up it's servers via a secondary dns server provided by #LXD.. The zone expired and it couldn't resolve.. I spent like an hour chasing a squirrel and it was a duck

#dns #is #a #biatch

#homelab it's become clear to me that I shouldn't be running something I really don't understand! I still haven't figured out why my #ovs / #OVN cluster won't work even though the cluster looks like it's up and has a leader! Can't really find support for it either. I ain't no chump! I'm ganna fix this!! But it's clear I shouldn't be running it.

#network #networking #overlay #OpenvSwitch

Damn yo when it goes it goes. My whole #network decided to implode. #vyos cpu is pegged at 100 percent and have no idea why. I updated and it just came out of no where. It's still working so I guess thats ok.

My #OVN SDN shit the bed when I rebooted it.. Now it's not coming back :) #networking is horrible

#homelab #selflhosted #selfhosting

I love the concept of overlay networks! They are dope... until they don't work. #OVN has been solid until i run into something crazy and troubleshooting it so so hard. I rebooted a node and now the networks won't come back up.

I'm thinking now of possibly moving my #homelab to a flat #WireGaurd solution like #NetBird or similar. Anyone running their whole lab on #WireGaurd / Overlay #network / #networks ?

Aight #SmartOS , I'm ganna try to describe this problem I'm having with a VM. I have SDN Networks in a #OVN cluster i'm trying to get to ( It's an Overlay Network for an #LXD Cluster).. It distributes virtual routers on the physical network. From within the #SmartOS VM, I can't seem to ping any of those networks. From #SmartOS hypervisor I can get to everything on those networks. This vm is on the physical network. I can get to all the different ip's on that network besides these. No Idea!

Successfully swapped my hardware #LXD node for a VM. I have done this before but I forgot how many steps you need to go through to make it happen. I really had to deal with two individual clusters that make up my one cluster of #OVN and #LXD. I'm sure I got a shit ton of tech debt in there that will kill me somewhere at some time. I did lose BGP there to one of my software defined networks. I forgot to remove the old node from the cluster. 😜🔥💥

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

Gearing up to replacing one of my nodes in my #LXD / #OVN cluster with a virtual machine to free up the hardware. I only use the hardware for quorum anyway it doesn't really host any services. That way I can sell these 1L Lenovo's to buy moar #hardware.

Or maybe I keep them and use them as a cluster for something.. Na I'm ganna sell them. If you into it they are Lenovo 1L M80 with an I5-10500 and 256 gig hard ( i think) hard drive.

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting #Im #selling

FIgured out why I wasn't getting any stats on one of my gobetween lb's! I had an #ovn lb created previously on the same ip and it was serving the traffic. Deleted it and guess what started working #dummy

#homelab #selfhosting #selfhosted #gobetween

Looks like this loadbalancer can query #lxd which seems super dope and going to try it instead of my #ovn loadbalancer as it doesn't have health checks.

Only down side... it's not really maintained anymore. Does that really matter tho 😜 😎

https://github.com/yyyar/gobetween

#lxd #homelab #selfhosting #selfhosted #networking #loadbalancers

@mmeier That's literally what just happened to me. Since i'm using #ovn with #lxd it gives me a rudimentary load balancer and pushes connections to both instances with one ip.. Sounds great, but it didn't matter if the instances where down, it didn't have health checks.. So it would still push the connection over to the instances and uptime kuma would keep on freaking out.. I mean I would only need to refresh the page and I would get there, so like HA-lite :)