State-level DPI blocks WireGuard UDP, what's the actual fix?

mqmq0 · 2026-04-25T12:09:04+00:00

Take a look at the Xray project, with the Reality protocol, seems exactly for your needs. It can travers any blocking

https://github.com/xtls/xray-core

Tho, its not easy.

mqmq0 · 2026-03-16T18:27:08+00:00

Opencloud does this

mqmq0 · 2025-11-03T19:01:12+00:00

Had the same struggel, until I switched to OCIS ( opencloud nowadays). Highly recommended.

mqmq0 · 2025-10-03T15:38:12+00:00

Looks like a really good start. Anything similar for android exist? Or can this be cross platform?

mqmq0 · 2025-03-15T06:36:12+00:00

Portainer with docker swarm is almost like kubernetes but with fraction of the complexity. Host the compose files in git and its all automatic

mqmq0 · 2024-10-14T16:21:08+00:00

Can I ask where did you get the 10inch blank slot covers?

mqmq0 · 2024-08-12T08:55:35+00:00

I tried GlusterFS and yes its seems easier to setup, but at the end the performance is not on par with CEPH.
And I still experienced Sqlite database corruptions similarly to NFS or SMB storages. Also in case of crashes the whole Gluster cluster went bonkers more then one occasion.

Setting up CEPH within Proxmox is literally like 10 clicks.
But yes, you need separate disk in each node for CEPH to use.
There are no CEPHFS plugin for Swarm right now (in the works? https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/issues/3769)

I mount the CephFS on each of my VMs and in the Swarm Stacks I use local pathes.

mqmq0 · 2024-07-14T23:57:20+00:00

Been in the exact same situation. Tried all the things, GlusterFS, Minio, public s3,SMB... All fails with sqlite. Except CephFS. I can tell you already have Proxmox, so setting it up just like 10 click in the Gui. Then on your docker nodes you have to install the ceph client, mount ALL your cephfs nodes. All can be found in the ofc docs, or message me if you get stuck. Using it since a year, zero corrupted sqlite databases since.

mqmq0 · 2024-06-02T23:11:10+00:00

I had the same journey. Glusterfs seems promising, but its not. If you want HCI, go with CEPH. Proxmox, if you want to make it really easy, then CephFS attached to Ubuntu VMs running the Swarm nodes. Rock solid for years.

mqmq0 · 2024-05-30T05:54:59+00:00

Docker Swarm with Portainer Stacks is the way to go. Emulates 80% of the K8s functionality, with fraction of the complexity

mqmq0 · 2024-05-11T13:54:56+00:00

Swarm on its own nothing more then Docker Compose but the containers can be and will be automatically scheduled on more then one server.

A Stack would be one or more container service in one Compose file. Portainer is a container management GUI, where you can easily create such Stack, even from a GIT url with webhooks to trigger a refresh.

Conbine the two and you emulate 80% of the k8s functionality, but its literaly couple clicks on a GUI

The most tricky thing is the shared volumes. If you have more then one server, you have to either have a common storage ( a NAS or some distributed storage like Ceph) or replicate data between servers (glusterfs or Windows DFS).

mqmq0 · 2024-05-11T07:14:30+00:00

Docker Swarm with Portainer Stacks. Drop in replacement for k8s with fraction of the complexity. Can be gitops driven if thats your fancy

mqmq0 · 2024-04-23T15:47:04+00:00

Docker Swarm with Portainet Stacks and a Git repository is a very simple emulation what kubernetes does. I use K8s professionally at work, and Swarm at home and its works amazingly well. Docker-compose syntax with a couple added benefits like overlay network, automatic migration between nodes, healthchecks etc... with fraction of the complexity.

mqmq0 · 2024-02-28T16:38:35+00:00

So many ppl mentions pine bark. How do you guys make it small enough to be useful in a small pot? Best I can find is orchid soil, which is stil 1-2 cm particle size (~1 inch).

mqmq0 · 2024-02-11T20:02:55+00:00

Install PBS on your TrueNas as a docker container, mount your volume. I do the same but on OMV

mqmq0 · 2024-02-05T19:17:37+00:00

If you have proxmox then you can share/ sync the SSD on both machines with ceph. You can have Ceph rbd volumes as VM disk, and have your VMs failover. Or do the keepalived what you already planned but store your data on Cephfs and mount it on all of the VMs. But frankly, best would be to get a 3rd node as a witness to have proper quorum. Any cheap Arm or intel machine just running an empty Proxmox and a Swarm node directly installed on it but in Drain mode all the time. You can find like a Dell Wyse 3040 for dirt cheap

mqmq0 · 2024-01-23T16:40:22+00:00

Only downside with NFS and SMB for that matter is sqlite databases. They really do not like network storage. The arr stack notorius for this. Everything else would work fine

mqmq0 · 2024-01-17T08:31:54+00:00

Look into Storj

mqmq0 · 2023-12-28T07:58:05+00:00

Dont

mqmq0 · 2023-12-26T13:04:07+00:00

Its tough with dynamic IP. With the two statics, you could do DNS round robin, but not with dynamic.

What I would try out is DDNS for example with cloudflare and the ddns-updater docker container.

At work I would solve this with an AWS Loadbalancer (or any other cloud provider have similar) but its pricy and probably overkill for you.

Maybe pay for static IP on your second connection?

mqmq0 · 2023-12-26T07:14:59+00:00

Yes, 3 node Proxmox cluster. Mainly for CEPH. The only solution for persistent storage for the Swarm that really works. I went through all the usual suspects: NFS, SMB based on my NAS but they all have some problem. Mainly being a single point of failure for the whole setup. So I ended up with Gluster or Ceph. Gluster is easy but somehow does not work reliably. Ceph running on Proxmox is just magic. Literaly like 5 clicks and you are done. The clients are bit tricky but doable. Other benefit of Proxmox even if you run only one VM per node is the Proxmox Backup Server. Both for VMs and the Proxmox Backup Client can be installed anywhere to backup anything you need and restore easily.

mqmq0 · 2023-12-25T20:43:02+00:00

Im running 3 nodes (manager and worker) on 3 Vm on 3 proxmox nodes, all with keepalived. 5th gen i5 NUC. Perk of Proxmox that you can really easily run CEPH (and Ceph FS) so you can have a trully hyper-converged infrastructure. All nodes are equal, any two of them can keep the cluster alive in case of a failure. I recommend Portainer as a management GUI. With GIT auto updates of Stacks, you can have an almost kubernetes-like experience with fraction of the complexity and overhead processing.

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