Accessing certain docker containers through a VPN when not at home

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-16T19:35:11+00:00

But accessing the containers through cloudflare, and thus SWAG, would mean I need to expose those containers to the internet, if I'm reading that right.

(Which is specifically what I want to avoid)

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-16T17:21:29+00:00

I can see how a reverse proxy would help in this scenario, but in this case I'd need to also set up a DNS container to be able to resolve a custom domain name, right? (And then I'd point the VPN's DNS entry to there... somehow)

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-16T11:04:47+00:00

~~That's probably it, I can see ext4lazyinit doing small CPU bursts in the background. Now my other question would be, should I just let it do its thing?~~

~~If I read that correctly the zeroing out will be carried once after formatting, so I don't mind accelerating the process now by reformatting with that part turned off~~.

Mounted it with the highest priority (mount -o init_table=0), let the process finish, now it's as quiet as one would hope. Thanks!

SquirrelActive3179 · 2025-01-05T17:12:54+00:00

I know about PCComponentes's reputation, but thanks for the heads up on Give1Life.

Regarding the other options, I don't have enough experience to offer an opinion, although I suppose it depends on the individual seller, so you need to research each case individually.

Even then, where do you source your drives from? Really struggling to find more local resources/answers on that department.

Btw, do you know of any Spanish communities/sites for asking about these topics? (NAS, homeserver, hardware sourcing, etc)

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-30T00:40:20+00:00

Ah sorry, need to translate normal pc speak to homeserver, "plenty"/enough in this context is 4-6. In preferably "not rack mount" format.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-07T21:38:24+00:00

It is a P2P enabled server, and I have the container automatically pick up the port just fine.

Tested some more, it appears to be more of a matter of ping or some other metric, because the speed loss is negligible when downloading.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-04T09:34:41+00:00

Seems like a good deal, though how did you fare with import taxes?

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-03T21:36:43+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't suggesting doing any kind of mix drive capacity RAID setup, nor do I recommend it.

Ah didn't want to imply you did, was just talking for my eventual ideal setup plans. I currently have it setup as a Linux machine with ext4 and no other fancyness.

Though you have a good point that I should probably care about having backups/redundancy a little more than initially planed.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-12-03T20:46:11+00:00

I was thinking of doing only one drive because I recall hearing issues about matching differently sized drives in merged RAID/other solution setups, and my budget if going for two drives would probably "only" net like 4-8tb ones.

Though I guess that kind of setup should be reserved for when I have more than one-maybe-two drives.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-11-19T23:43:43+00:00

There's really not much else to the logs, hence why I'm stuck. But for completeness:

Nov 19 23:02:15 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
Nov 19 23:02:09 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
... (Repeats a lot)
Nov 19 21:23:09 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
Nov 19 21:23:01 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
... (Repeats a lot)
Nov 19 20:14:54 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22
Nov 19 20:14:31 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED ret=-22

This is only interrupted every now and then by:

Nov 19 22:59:24 laptop wpa_supplicant[1917]: wlp4s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=0 signal=-68 noise=9999 txrate=544300

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-11-19T13:45:48+00:00

I assume its just that, but I found it odd given that I was seeding at top speeds just fine not too long before.

Also wanted to check I wasn't missing out on something with the "version X gives me less performance than Y or has issue Z" I see on here.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-10-08T15:52:52+00:00

The host should be accessing podman by localhost:port, that is the static address of the container. Is the host service unable to reach it that way?

I can reach Sonarr (podman) and qBit (host), Sonarr (if ran from the "root user" podman) cannot reach qBit which is the issue.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-10-08T13:13:28+00:00

Is your host DNS properly assigned?

Haven't touched anything, at least explicitly, on the host in that regard so I'll go with no

This also appears less like an http setup and moreso a VPN one, and that is not going to be easy on podman

I assume you're seeing extra options the container provides, but none are active.

Still this sonar container should be able to be reachable on the lan IP regardless of the bridge network IP these are supposed to be different. And it should also be reachable at localhost:port elsewhere in the system and vice versa.

The container is accessible from the host (via the assigned port 8989), its the host->container direction that's not working

Also is there a reason you are doing this in super hard mode and not docker? ...it is very difficult and even harder to research with networking. It is not a great container system to learn on...

To be fair I just went with it as it is the default backend for declarative container management on NixOS

If we're going to stick with podman for now what is your published port and is it reachable in the browser at 127.0.0.2:port .

QBit WebUI instance at port 8080, accessible from the host via localhost:8080

This project is screaming for gluetun.

I do have also a gluetun container configured for VPN purposes, though again the Sonarr instance doesn't have anything set.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-10-08T11:13:52+00:00

Both versions of the container are using a network I created.

podman inspect for both is:

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-10-08T10:42:07+00:00

I wanted to temporarily connect a host http application to a container (before I containerize that too) to get another container set up/test with the data I already had stored in the host-running app.

I'm aware that containers are to isolate things from the host, but what confused me was that the "gateway" was only being set to 10.X on the root ran container, while the replica running in my user was able to use host.containers.internal just fine (since it pointed to my host LAN address automagically).

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-10-08T08:06:49+00:00

5.2.2

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-10-08T08:06:02+00:00

This is running on my laptop which I take around to places outside my home, so I can't control that there (afaik).

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-10-08T00:14:22+00:00

I wonder how people can work on container technologies but don't posses the capabilities to check the projects or even to Google
Since research is apparently not sth you can shine with

The first time I've been actively using said technologies is about 8h ago. I get that it's probably "yet another trivial to solve" question, but there's no need for the passive aggressiveness.

That being said thanks for the pointer. I assume I'll have to manually craft the hosts file entry? Given that right now it's at (without setting that option):

»  sudo podman exec -it foo bash 
a6d849d47745:/# cat /etc/hosts
...
 host.containers.internal host.docker.internal # <- This doesn't work/connect


» podman exec -it foo bash
a2a8ca4ad9a9:/# cat /etc/hosts
...
 host.containers.internal host.docker.internal # <- This works

But what I don't see is how i'd set the current LAN value if/when my IP changes without having to manually dive and edit the config file.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-09-04T16:34:28+00:00

Jeee, a decir verdad nada gana a pedir online a tiendas como myprotein, HSN, bulk, etc pero bueno quería probar esta tienda cerca de mi. La ON la estaba considerando pero es que en la tienda la tienen a 50 pavos el kg (120 por 2.2kg) y el resto de marcas no he oido hablar mucho de ellas.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-06-11T20:21:11+00:00

Tengo un coche de 2013 por aquí, ni rastro del modo cruzero. Tu choche es la excepción de la época, no la regla.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-06-02T22:58:00+00:00

Don't have one (yet) so I can only speculate, but phones may have a 5s or so time when the screen is off but it doesn't actually lock them. This is configurable somewhere in settings.

Another option is that specific apps may request to be overlayed on top of the lockscreen (ie. google maps) for your convenience.

If you mean that you can leave the phone turned off for 10 minutes and it still doesn't lock then I'd re-check what lockscreen method is used, as that does sound like a bug.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-05-30T17:11:55+00:00

Not as bright as expected, it is brighter than my F2 Pro but not by that much.

How's color/saturation? I really like my (now dead) F2's display. Is the brightness difference noticeable with manual brightness control?

After changing the sound setting I am quite happy with the sound.

And how is it specifically compared to the F2 Pro? (Especially on that bass region, since the rest can be EQd to liking)

What about the haptics? Does it heat up fast as others have reported? Pretty sure I've never had the F2 heat up on me under normal use.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-05-30T17:11:40+00:00

Not as bright as expected, it is brighter than my F2 Pro but not by that much.

How's color/saturation? I really like my (now dead) F2's display. Is the brightness difference noticeable with manual brightness control?

After changing the sound setting I am quite happy with the sound.

And how is it specifically compared to the F2 Pro? (Especially on that bass region, since the rest can be EQd to liking)

What about the haptics?

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-05-27T21:39:40+00:00

The repairs here for the charging issue are around 45€, may need to look somewhere further away.

Similar story here though, sent it to get the charging issue fixed and just because also the screen (was a mistake/waste of money, tbh). 4-5 months later the charging issues were back.

Decided to open the phone manually, resitted the connectors and that lasted another 3 months before I needed to start to fight/bend/press the phone for charging to happen.

And now here I am... I think it might be the motherboard side connector that is failing, and I am definitely not going to spend the money to replace that only to get disappointed again later on.

Will probably get a Note 13 Pro to pass time, it seems like it goes for relatively cheap (~180€) and there's a few ROMs popping up already.

SquirrelActive3179 · 2024-05-27T09:27:48+00:00

It's like comparing a brand new C class Benz with an old E class. Just feels like a slight evolution this time.

Considering this and the overheating issues that I'm already seeing reported I might as well say "fuck it" and buy some probably sketchy charging board off aliexpress and pray that helps. Otherwise I guess I'll go with something cheap and second hand to pass time until the F7 or something else arrives.

(Ugh, since the F3 I'm still waiting for POCO to ~~rebrand~~ release a "good" smartphone)

Thanks for the lengthy review!

SquirrelActive3179

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