Techno Tim from the little I understand about the project, it seems to be another piece of orchestrating software for connecting APIs across different architectures. I’m just interested in learning and really enjoy implementing new ideas to my workflow.
Hi Tim. Found your channel about a month ago and your videos are very informative and helpful. I am a Software Engineer working remote and I am in the very early days of a homelab. In fact I just deployed my first raspberry pi server running open media vault and dockerized pi hole this weekend. I have an old laptop I’m going to use as a docker server for some other services as well. Keep making the great vids!
I don’t understand why you have so few subscribers with such high-quality content. I have only one explanation, these are rather highly specialized topics that are aimed at technical specialists.
Thank you so much! I do think that and it has to do with only making videos for 6 months! I am still pretty new (I have old gaming content but that doesn't really count). I really appreciate the comment! Feel free to share this channel with your friends!
This is reminding me that from 2001 until about 2006, I always had a simple, flat, HTML page that linked to all the sites I visit frequently. I should get back to doing that.
Two years later, Heimdall is essentially dead in the water from a development perspective, but still super useful and hasn't been eclipsed. I'm about to push mine outside, reverse proxied and tucked behind authelia. I wouldn't have started this journey without Tim and his recommendations.
Hi Tim. Really enjoy your work man. Love the time-lines, easy listening music, your extreme attention to detail and mostly the efficient video editing (not a single wasted second in all videos). For my setup I'm running Organizr with Heimdall as . This has added a left hand side taskbar with icons to the browser window. I've set Organizr to open shortcuts in the same browser screen () and Heimdall to open new tab. Huge thanks for those Portainer videos.
Great! Never looked at this, I always kept those in my mind, not event bookmarks. It was about time that I came across your channel and saw Heimdall here! :D
After watching your home lab videos (hardware and software) I had no idea what 1/2 of the applications were. Now I get to learn about them-- and most importantly ... why I would want them -- and learn how to set them up. I am subscribed!
I always thought i was down with the cool tech folks until i started watching your video's Tim... The extra mile, but i love it, keep up the good work :) Technology is moving faster than i can keep up. I've been testing some homelab style stuff on an old HTPC i had, but needed a dedicated server to continue the pursuit (and get my HTPC back). Arrives today :D
I'm using home assistant dashboard with all my services listed there. You could add any integrations + add automations (notifications if service is down or works not as you expected).
Techno Tim Nextcloud including SSL maybe? Or a Steamcache/lancache setup? I use lancache for example to offload unneeded network traffic for my wife and I (both gamers) if one of us buys a new game on steam for example. Normally that game would be downloaded twice, meaning twice the data transfer. By caching the game install, I can download the same game when I come back home from work with full network speed instead of having to download it again from the steam servers. Same goes for windows updates and some other services like that
I was able to get this up and running. My first official Docker container under Rancher. Don't have a whole lot to add to it other than Proxmox and Rancher pages at the moment but I could set up some Dell iDrac links like you have although i've just been using an actual KVM for the servers. I have found I don't like the old Java ran console from iDrac. But.... It does make life easier than either making long KVM runs or having console hardware in your rack. As an aside I also set this VM up as an auto-startup with Proxmox. first time for doing that. So... It's the first time i've had a totally hands off setup that can go from powered off to up without having to log into or launch anything. Learned some stuff about Linux in the process as well.
@@TechnoTim I saw those. I ended up adding Sonarr and SABnzbd links to web interfaces (which I had to enable) on a Windows 10 VM i'm running. That's part of my old setup that has served me very well. But now armed with how to set up docker containers thanks to your Rancher video I set up a SABnzbd docker container. I set up a TrueNAS VM and made a quick and dirty test share, set it up to auto-mount on the Xubuntu VM which i'm running Rancher on, and have my SABnzbd docker implimentation downloading a test file as I type this. I've learned more in the past week than the the past 2.5 years of on-the job stuff. And what's more is it's something i'm actually interested in, lol. Man I miss being desktop and server ops. I need to get back to doing that.
Hey Tim, don't know how I'm just now discovering your channel! Love the videos, content and format!!! I do have a question that may be on the mind of others. I've been containerizing my services using docker on both bare metal and VMs for a couple of years. I don't have a place I can run my Dell R410s or R710s :( as my garage is too hot in the summer and they are too loud to run in my office. So I've started to migrate to smaller form factors like Lenovo ThinkCentre's, etc. And with that interested in mini clusters. On a small scale I've wanted to create redundancy with swarm, etc., but haven't gotten there yet. So my question is, you recommend Kubernetes over vanilla docker but always with one instance. So I'm curious as to the advantage of this kind of deployment. I'm very interested in the Rancher/Docker/Kubernetes setup you describe and explain. Perhaps you could show us a redundancy kind of set up. Say a backup or redundant PiHole as a simple example. Or perhaps just setting up a load balancer is the way to go. In the end, looking for taking advantage of the deployment of a failover/redundancy kind of application of the tech. Thanks Tim!
It would be nice if we could share tabs with other local users instead of them having to add tabs their own dashboard. I posted a feature request on the Heimdall site for this.
Thanks for making me aware of this. It's ging straight into my docker-compose now. Just one question. What wat that browser software you were using to scale the webUI please?
Hey Tim, Thanks for the excellent video playlists that you have which is helping me a ton in getting my HomeLab setup. One followup question for the Rancher UI. With being on v2.6.6 version, I am not getting the HostPort as one of the option. Just the NodePort, ClusterIP and Load Balancer. Googling it doesn't lead to any solution on it (There is one thread on rancher site but its unanswered). Any inputs? Thanks!
Hi Tim not sure were and what you are typing as you can't see it on the screen for those of us that are not so technically minded we need to be able to see what's going on please don't take this as any type of criticism just need to follow more closely than normal. Great vivd please keep making them it was about 3:13 minutes into the vivd that you lost me👍
I see a problem with Heimdall right away. It is center aligned, so every time you add new link everything shifts. That would drive me nuts, as I tend to remember positions.. Also something like this should really be highly customizable it terms of theming & layout.
Tim, just recently found and subscribed. I'm having a lot of fun getting some of these home labs running in containers. I like Heimdall but its slow - it takes a couple seconds when popping a new tab to display it. Any way to speed it up or have cached copies (near real time)?
Can I group the apps in the dashboard? Or separate the with some horizontal lines? Having just 50 different apps there might be hard to search through them.
Love this tool, and excellent tutorial as always. You knocked it out of the park...! My Application Type drop down menu does not show many Apps? Is there a way to populate this? Pi-Hole is not showing either :(
@@TechnoTim it definitely is, and i will probably use it in the future! But it wouldn't suprise me if i still were to type them all out. (Most of 'em are behind proxies and thus a domain, that makes it a bit easier already)
Hi Tim, great videos, please go on!!!. I'ev been using Rancher for sometime, but I would like to also manage it from the CLI. I've installed "a standalone one node" Rancher. But I cannot use kubectl from the command line, except if I launch it from the graphic gui, but I would really like to use it from the server CLI, and have bot been able to make it work. Do you know how it can be done?
You can use it from the cli on any machine! Just go into rancher and click on your cluster. There you will see "kubeconfig file" in the upper right. Just download that and put it in ~/.kube/confg. Then you can kubectl into it!
@@brunoteixeira5092 I have the same question, in his docker rancher kubernetes tutorial he only used 4gb of ram on the ubuntu VM, but I just can't imagine that is enough.
FYI if you’re using proxmox don’t use a container for Ubuntu, you need a vm. Docker fails even with the flags I found on google in a container. Also I made one with 8gb of ram and it seems pretty good, rancher is only using 5% of the ram, haven’t installed any other services yet but I have high hopes
Thanks for the guide. Rancher shows heimdall running but when I go to the address I access Rancher on and port 8500 I get nothing, just "This site can't be reached, refused to connect". I've also clicked through Rancher/Deployments heimdall on the 8500/TCP link and it takes me to a different IP 172.x.x.x:8500 I get the same thing "This site can't be reached, refused to connect". I've tried deleting, setting it up again using different ports. I'm not sure if I setup Rancher incorrectly? Not sure why I'm getting 172.x.x.x addresses. I can ping the 172 address from SSH but can't ping it from my other home PCs and I'm not sure how to resolve that. Any ideas?
Does using Rancher instead of portainer requirement much higher memory and hardware for performance? I spun two ubuntu and one followed your rancher guide and after setting up cluster its already using 90% of the memory(4 GB) for that VM. No services installed yet. ;-(
I am running k3s cluster (1 master and two agents) which is then imported into and managed by a rancher server (running in a standalone docker container) a 4th plain docker node. I was wondering if there are any tips regarding running Heimdall (or in fact any other app like pi-hole) using ingress based workloads built into rancher 2.45. instead of using ports. How should I proceed? I find ingress (traefik based) more modern than node/host ports.
Everything in my homelab either runs windows server 2022 or in the case of my rack mounted workstation, windows 11 enterprise. Is there anything like Heimdall that will run on windows? If not I suppose I could run it in a pi but I though I would ask.
I tried Heimdall but found the auto updating tiles a bit buggy and they use ajax polling. This leads to excessive login events to things like my OpenMediaVault and portainer. Potainer blocked the IP and OpenMediaVault started excessive emailing when it hit the authentication URL which I luckily caught early. Removing the auto updating tiles are re-adding them seems to be the only way to fix them. Some of the tiles are also buggy if you just want to remove the auto updating part from them so you really have to remove and re-add them. The issue? Heimdall MUST really switch away from using AJAX, I know it's written in PHP and Laravel so websockets are probably a bit harder to pull off, but slamming the server with AJAX requests is not going to cut it, it really needs a single websocket connection for "smart updates". I'm still using it, just with static tiles only. The dynamic updating tiles are "too flakey".
I did raise a ticket and the authors got back to me, seems they are aware of this issue, it's a bit of a design flaw and they are re-thinking their approach. Meanwhile, don't use live tiles is the advice. I did notice they were working on a new version in a different git branch, master hadn't been updated for a while.
Hey! I know this is a long shot but - I successfully deployed Rancher using your tutorial, and I am trying to get Heimdall sorted out, and it's not working. I'm trying to install it on the same VM that rancher is running on and I think it's a port conflict problem. Do I need to make a new VM and add it as a node to rancher in order to circumvent the 443/80 issue?
how did you get the info there, am i missing something or did i do something wrong, i don't have info (blocked sites etc.) from my Pihole for instance...
Is there a way to host this for multiple users so each user can login with their credentials and create their own screen? I couldn't tell from the very brief look I had so far. 100 extra points if I can even setup a default that users can start with.
@@buddsterrYT i checked it this morning around 11am EST and it was up... last night when i was working on it i check and it was down. use the isitupordown website to verify if the site is down. check you logs in the container "kubectl logs podname" if your running kubernetes like i am
@@TechnoTim RIght. does your rancher cluster just have the one node? you did a host path vol right? So that instance would only work on that one node, unless you copied that path to each node. Just curious how you have your setup. I have been messing with Longhorn and kadalu lately for my 10 pi cluster I am building for my lab here at home. I use NFS for most of my stuff now, but that creates that single point of failure for the nas or nfs server. But going something like longhorn, kadalu, glusterfs you remove more of the single points of failure. Sorry for the rant. Just curious how others are doing their setups :)
I followed all your instructions to the letter, but i get this error in the logs "Failed: App\Jobs\ProcessApps" I have no apps in the app list. and i have updated and restarted several times still nothing!?!?
New Tab Redirect extension, throw in your Heimdall URL, bam. Unfortunately because it is a redirect, it doesn't auto-show the bookmark bar like the normal one does, but that's a small price to pay imo
I have heimdall going and I can add pihole and save it as a shortcut but I can't get a successful test for realtime data. I keep getting the same "general error connecting with API." Has anyone see this?
Not only that but you cant even use the port range in the demonstration as Rancher has a default port range in the 3000's and you will get an error that the port is out of range
Which services are you running at home?
Btw, if you're new here, welcome! Be sure to subscribe for more content like this! 🚀
Techno Tim any chance you could share how you use the Kong API in your professional workflow?
@@j.r._7416 Hey! Possibly. What is it that you would like to see?
Techno Tim from the little I understand about the project, it seems to be another piece of orchestrating software for connecting APIs across different architectures. I’m just interested in learning and really enjoy implementing new ideas to my workflow.
@@j.r._7416 personally I use traefik as to manage route between multiple services
Hi Tim. Found your channel about a month ago and your videos are very informative and helpful. I am a Software Engineer working remote and I am in the very early days of a homelab. In fact I just deployed my first raspberry pi server running open media vault and dockerized pi hole this weekend. I have an old laptop I’m going to use as a docker server for some other services as well. Keep making the great vids!
I was using bookmarks, Heimdall now. Thanks Tim
🙂
I don’t understand why you have so few subscribers with such high-quality content.
I have only one explanation, these are rather highly specialized topics that are aimed at technical specialists.
Thank you so much! I do think that and it has to do with only making videos for 6 months! I am still pretty new (I have old gaming content but that doesn't really count). I really appreciate the comment! Feel free to share this channel with your friends!
@@TechnoTim Yep, I am liking your vids. Thanks for it all.
I love how you started with 'why'. Great teaching instincts.
I appreciate that!
This is reminding me that from 2001 until about 2006, I always had a simple, flat, HTML page that linked to all the sites I visit frequently. I should get back to doing that.
Keep it simple!
I have fun watching your contents. It's easy to understand, straightforward, and keep me focused.
Subbed.
Awesome, thank you!
Way over my head...but it inspires me to watch your previous content so I can understand this amazing subject...thank you
Happy to hear that! Thank you for commenting!
Two years later, Heimdall is essentially dead in the water from a development perspective, but still super useful and hasn't been eclipsed. I'm about to push mine outside, reverse proxied and tucked behind authelia. I wouldn't have started this journey without Tim and his recommendations.
Hi Tim. Really enjoy your work man. Love the time-lines, easy listening music, your extreme attention to detail and mostly the efficient video editing (not a single wasted second in all videos). For my setup I'm running Organizr with Heimdall as . This has added a left hand side taskbar with icons to the browser window. I've set Organizr to open shortcuts in the same browser screen () and Heimdall to open new tab. Huge thanks for those Portainer videos.
Hey, thanks!
Truenas Scale is a great foundation to work with for these containers. Less fussing.
Dude.. i love your videos. They are my goto for most of the stuff i run. keep up the great work.
Great! Never looked at this, I always kept those in my mind, not event bookmarks. It was about time that I came across your channel and saw Heimdall here! :D
I just discovered your channel, and your videos are great and detailed. Thanks for the demo and walk-thru, have a great day
I previously was using firefox to sync all my bookmarks, and now its all good with Heimdall
Welcome aboard!
Nice!
@@TechnoTim are you planning to do a video on the kubernetes, docker, and rancher?
After watching your home lab videos (hardware and software) I had no idea what 1/2 of the applications were. Now I get to learn about them-- and most importantly ... why I would want them -- and learn how to set them up. I am subscribed!
Thank you!
Great content, as usual. Just got down with Heimdall and it’s great! Thanks Tim!
Awesome tool for organizing your environment. Thanks!
I was looking for something like this, Thank you very much
Thanks for nice guide, Like this Heimdall :)
Good bye bookmarks, Hello Heimdall! Thank you for the awesome tutorial Tim.
Glad you like them!
I always thought i was down with the cool tech folks until i started watching your video's Tim... The extra mile, but i love it, keep up the good work :) Technology is moving faster than i can keep up. I've been testing some homelab style stuff on an old HTPC i had, but needed a dedicated server to continue the pursuit (and get my HTPC back). Arrives today :D
I appreciate that!
Thanks Tim for the many tips and tricks for my homelab. I would love to see a video on how to approach heimdall externally. Keep up the good work.
You got it!
Awesome content Tim. I could listen the whole day to your explanations.
Thank you!
Thanks Tim! This walk through helped, Heimdall is all setup.
Great to hear!
I still using bookmarks but let's just say this is about to change. Love the content
Awesome!
I recently installed Organizr via an lxc but I think I like Heimdall more. Good stuff Tim.
Nice! I love the simplicity!
Another great video!!! Thanks again Tim for improving my home lab - I have TechnoTim on my Heimdall dashboard too : ~)
Wow! Thank you! Glad you like it!
I'm using home assistant dashboard with all my services listed there. You could add any integrations + add automations (notifications if service is down or works not as you expected).
Hi Tim, Funny you made this video now. I just set up Heimdall 4-5 days ago :)
Nice!
Thank you Tim, this is very useful.
You're very welcome!
Funny how you don't even know you need something until TechnoTim makes a video about it xD
♥
What's the next thing you would like me to recommend?
Techno Tim Nextcloud including SSL maybe? Or a Steamcache/lancache setup? I use lancache for example to offload unneeded network traffic for my wife and I (both gamers) if one of us buys a new game on steam for example. Normally that game would be downloaded twice, meaning twice the data transfer. By caching the game install, I can download the same game when I come back home from work with full network speed instead of having to download it again from the steam servers. Same goes for windows updates and some other services like that
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
I love your videos!! They are definitely very helpful :D
Glad you like them!
I was able to get this up and running. My first official Docker container under Rancher. Don't have a whole lot to add to it other than Proxmox and Rancher pages at the moment but I could set up some Dell iDrac links like you have although i've just been using an actual KVM for the servers. I have found I don't like the old Java ran console from iDrac. But.... It does make life easier than either making long KVM runs or having console hardware in your rack. As an aside I also set this VM up as an auto-startup with Proxmox. first time for doing that. So... It's the first time i've had a totally hands off setup that can go from powered off to up without having to log into or launch anything. Learned some stuff about Linux in the process as well.
Nice work! I have some ideas for services in my other videos and more soon!
@@TechnoTim I saw those. I ended up adding Sonarr and SABnzbd links to web interfaces (which I had to enable) on a Windows 10 VM i'm running. That's part of my old setup that has served me very well. But now armed with how to set up docker containers thanks to your Rancher video I set up a SABnzbd docker container. I set up a TrueNAS VM and made a quick and dirty test share, set it up to auto-mount on the Xubuntu VM which i'm running Rancher on, and have my SABnzbd docker implimentation downloading a test file as I type this. I've learned more in the past week than the the past 2.5 years of on-the job stuff. And what's more is it's something i'm actually interested in, lol. Man I miss being desktop and server ops. I need to get back to doing that.
Tall•too•lee
Edit: thanks for keeping the commands along with the gui. There are still of old school folks who like the terminal. 😎🤙
Thanks for the tips!
so cool ill set it up soon
You got me to use Heimdall ;)
:)
Best channel on youtube!
Thank you!
Great Videos Tim
Thank you so much!
Hey Tim, don't know how I'm just now discovering your channel! Love the videos, content and format!!! I do have a question that may be on the mind of others. I've been containerizing my services using docker on both bare metal and VMs for a couple of years. I don't have a place I can run my Dell R410s or R710s :( as my garage is too hot in the summer and they are too loud to run in my office. So I've started to migrate to smaller form factors like Lenovo ThinkCentre's, etc. And with that interested in mini clusters. On a small scale I've wanted to create redundancy with swarm, etc., but haven't gotten there yet. So my question is, you recommend Kubernetes over vanilla docker but always with one instance. So I'm curious as to the advantage of this kind of deployment. I'm very interested in the Rancher/Docker/Kubernetes setup you describe and explain. Perhaps you could show us a redundancy kind of set up. Say a backup or redundant PiHole as a simple example. Or perhaps just setting up a load balancer is the way to go. In the end, looking for taking advantage of the deployment of a failover/redundancy kind of application of the tech. Thanks Tim!
Thank you! Clusters coming soon. I recommend single instance to get started :)
It would be nice if we could share tabs with other local users instead of them having to add tabs their own dashboard. I posted a feature request on the Heimdall site for this.
Thanks for making me aware of this. It's ging straight into my docker-compose now. Just one question. What wat that browser software you were using to scale the webUI please?
Inspirational ✌
Thank you so much :)
Hey Tim, Thanks for the excellent video playlists that you have which is helping me a ton in getting my HomeLab setup.
One followup question for the Rancher UI. With being on v2.6.6 version, I am not getting the HostPort as one of the option. Just the NodePort, ClusterIP and Load Balancer. Googling it doesn't lead to any solution on it (There is one thread on rancher site but its unanswered). Any inputs? Thanks!
If are using single node, just use node ip
@@TechnoTim Little advanced setup. 3 Master and 3 workers 😞. Thats keeps me blocked as far as using Rancher is concered.
Hi Tim not sure were and what you are typing as you can't see it on the screen for those of us that are not so technically minded we need to be able to see what's going on please don't take this as any type of criticism just need to follow more closely than normal. Great vivd please keep making them it was about 3:13 minutes into the vivd that you lost me👍
I typically create a cheesy HTML file that lists all of the Devices and Services in my Network but this seems much nicer.
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I see a problem with Heimdall right away. It is center aligned, so every time you add new link everything shifts. That would drive me nuts, as I tend to remember positions..
Also something like this should really be highly customizable it terms of theming & layout.
It's open source. Contribute or fork it to fit your needs.
Tim, just recently found and subscribed. I'm having a lot of fun getting some of these home labs running in containers. I like Heimdall but its slow - it takes a couple seconds when popping a new tab to display it. Any way to speed it up or have cached copies (near real time)?
Can I group the apps in the dashboard? Or separate the with some horizontal lines? Having just 50 different apps there might be hard to search through them.
Love this tool, and excellent tutorial as always. You knocked it out of the park...! My Application Type drop down menu does not show many Apps? Is there a way to populate this? Pi-Hole is not showing either :(
Thank you! Try to update the container and then update the apps in options
@@TechnoTim Thanks Tim, looking in the logs looks like the Apps update is failing. [2021-06-20 10:22:35][90] Failed: App\Jobs\ProcessApps
@@gswhite i am having the same problem, any luck?
Awesome stuff! Are you self hosting this site or are you using something like AWS? You probably said this but I can't remember...
Lol you answered my question in the video just seconds after posting it
Self hosting all the way!
I Like Organizr and Portainer -- but taking a look at Heimdall now.
Matthew Wildrick portainer and organizr are also great options!
I'm always remembering the url's haha. Chrome auto fills them for me but it definitely looks worth a shot
It’s nice to have buttons!
@@TechnoTim it definitely is, and i will probably use it in the future! But it wouldn't suprise me if i still were to type them all out. (Most of 'em are behind proxies and thus a domain, that makes it a bit easier already)
Hi Tim, great videos, please go on!!!.
I'ev been using Rancher for sometime, but I would like to also manage it from the CLI. I've installed "a standalone one node" Rancher. But I cannot use kubectl from the command line, except if I launch it from the graphic gui, but I would really like to use it from the server CLI, and have bot been able to make it work. Do you know how it can be done?
You can use it from the cli on any machine! Just go into rancher and click on your cluster. There you will see "kubeconfig file" in the upper right. Just download that and put it in ~/.kube/confg. Then you can kubectl into it!
@@TechnoTim Thanks Tim!!!, It was as simple as that!!!, as always your awesome!!!
Awesome Video mate. Btw i followed your instructions but Pihole doesn't show queries on the heimdall dashboard.
It should, I just set mine up again. Do you have the right URL?
Hey tim,
Do you use 1 Vm with all those docker containers and rancher?
If yes, does a docker container needs alot of cpu and ram?
I use 2 but not due to resources, just do to data access. You don’t need as much as you think. An old gaming pc would work just fine.
@@TechnoTim i have a ESXi server ^^
How much ram and vCPUS do you use btw ?
@@brunoteixeira5092 I have the same question, in his docker rancher kubernetes tutorial he only used 4gb of ram on the ubuntu VM, but I just can't imagine that is enough.
@@trippin7464 same, still waiting for him to response
FYI if you’re using proxmox don’t use a container for Ubuntu, you need a vm. Docker fails even with the flags I found on google in a container. Also I made one with 8gb of ram and it seems pretty good, rancher is only using 5% of the ram, haven’t installed any other services yet but I have high hopes
Sorry I must have missed it: Why Kube isntead of just hosting it on your homelab?
It's still on your homelab, but why not run docker and kubernetes in your homelab :) th-cam.com/video/pxwUXJmAER4/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the guide. Rancher shows heimdall running but when I go to the address I access Rancher on and port 8500 I get nothing, just "This site can't be reached, refused to connect". I've also clicked through Rancher/Deployments heimdall on the 8500/TCP link and it takes me to a different IP 172.x.x.x:8500 I get the same thing "This site can't be reached, refused to connect".
I've tried deleting, setting it up again using different ports. I'm not sure if I setup Rancher incorrectly? Not sure why I'm getting 172.x.x.x addresses. I can ping the 172 address from SSH but can't ping it from my other home PCs and I'm not sure how to resolve that.
Any ideas?
Does using Rancher instead of portainer requirement much higher memory and hardware for performance? I spun two ubuntu and one followed your rancher guide and after setting up cluster its already using 90% of the memory(4 GB) for that VM. No services installed yet. ;-(
kuerbernetes (rancher) does require more resources than plain old docker (portainer) but you are getting enterprise grade capabilities :)
I am running k3s cluster (1 master and two agents) which is then imported into and managed by a rancher server (running in a standalone docker container) a 4th plain docker node. I was wondering if there are any tips regarding running Heimdall (or in fact any other app like pi-hole) using ingress based workloads built into rancher 2.45. instead of using ports. How should I proceed? I find ingress (traefik based) more modern than node/host ports.
I agree a load balance would be better. I need to learn more about configuring load balancers in Rancher 2 before making a video. Thank you!
Everything in my homelab either runs windows server 2022 or in the case of my rack mounted workstation, windows 11 enterprise. Is there anything like Heimdall that will run on windows? If not I suppose I could run it in a pi but I though I would ask.
I tried Heimdall but found the auto updating tiles a bit buggy and they use ajax polling. This leads to excessive login events to things like my OpenMediaVault and portainer. Potainer blocked the IP and OpenMediaVault started excessive emailing when it hit the authentication URL which I luckily caught early.
Removing the auto updating tiles are re-adding them seems to be the only way to fix them. Some of the tiles are also buggy if you just want to remove the auto updating part from them so you really have to remove and re-add them.
The issue? Heimdall MUST really switch away from using AJAX, I know it's written in PHP and Laravel so websockets are probably a bit harder to pull off, but slamming the server with AJAX requests is not going to cut it, it really needs a single websocket connection for "smart updates".
I'm still using it, just with static tiles only. The dynamic updating tiles are "too flakey".
I did raise a ticket and the authors got back to me, seems they are aware of this issue, it's a bit of a design flaw and they are re-thinking their approach. Meanwhile, don't use live tiles is the advice.
I did notice they were working on a new version in a different git branch, master hadn't been updated for a while.
Hey man, Any idea on which version is better?.. lately my heimdall consumes 80% of my RBPi CPU
I’d try latest or roll back a few tags
Hey! I know this is a long shot but - I successfully deployed Rancher using your tutorial, and I am trying to get Heimdall sorted out, and it's not working. I'm trying to install it on the same VM that rancher is running on and I think it's a port conflict problem. Do I need to make a new VM and add it as a node to rancher in order to circumvent the 443/80 issue?
You should be able to deploy it and then use Node port or Host port and expose it that way
how did you get the info there, am i missing something or did i do something wrong, i don't have info (blocked sites etc.) from my Pihole for instance...
Is there a way to host this for multiple users so each user can login with their credentials and create their own screen? I couldn't tell from the very brief look I had so far. 100 extra points if I can even setup a default that users can start with.
Not sure but sounds awesome. It is open source so you can suggest the feature (or write it) there 😀
Nice presentation. Heimdall seems overbloated for a bunch of bookmarks tho..
Thanks! Can do more than bookmarks though too. It's awesome once you services added.
i installed this but i cant seam to get it to update the apps list no matter how many times i click up date or destroy and redeploy the container.
Its working now... their servers were down for updates. :)
@@royboivin Still not working for me, did you need to do anything?
@@buddsterrYT i checked it this morning around 11am EST and it was up... last night when i was working on it i check and it was down. use the isitupordown website to verify if the site is down. check you logs in the container "kubectl logs podname" if your running kubernetes like i am
How do you handle the persistent volume when the container moves to the other node?
You’d have to use a storage class like longhorn or nfs client provisioner
@@TechnoTim RIght. does your rancher cluster just have the one node? you did a host path vol right? So that instance would only work on that one node, unless you copied that path to each node. Just curious how you have your setup. I have been messing with Longhorn and kadalu lately for my 10 pi cluster I am building for my lab here at home. I use NFS for most of my stuff now, but that creates that single point of failure for the nas or nfs server. But going something like longhorn, kadalu, glusterfs you remove more of the single points of failure. Sorry for the rant. Just curious how others are doing their setups :)
Hi. Today I try to install this. My docker and esxi vm are different subnet. How do I configure this?
You would have to set up routing
I actually do use Heimdall.
You saved me )))
I followed all your instructions to the letter, but i get this error in the logs "Failed: App\Jobs\ProcessApps" I have no apps in the app list. and i have updated and restarted several times still nothing!?!?
Maybe check their github to see if there’s a bug
What’s going to happen now the docker won’t be supported in future releases of Kubernetes?
You can switch your container runtime to something else!
What are u using for the ssl vpn?
OpenVPN is the most popular choice for SSL VPN
@@TechnoTim do you have a video how to set it up :)
Tim, my Rancher is somehow borked. How to fix this? “default backend - 404” has anyone else experienced this after a powerloss and FSCK needed.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get Heimdall to display in your Chrome new tab window?
New Tab Redirect extension, throw in your Heimdall URL, bam. Unfortunately because it is a redirect, it doesn't auto-show the bookmark bar like the normal one does, but that's a small price to pay imo
how add private Enhanced app?
Do you will make a video how to make one?
And how to contribute your enhanced app?
Maybe open a PR on Heimdall?
before open PR on Heimdall how to make enchanted app and test locally, and also u cannot PR your private app
I have heimdall going and I can add pihole and save it as a shortcut but I can't get a successful test for realtime data. I keep getting the same "general error connecting with API." Has anyone see this?
Sounds like password or your config maybe? Also, after checking that, be sure your container and apps list is up to date.
Heeeeeey Tim!
hiiiieeeeeeeee!
Hey! There's something wrong in the Port Mapping shown. You've put the internal ports as the port name and external ports as random.
Sorry, see the docs!
Not only that but you cant even use the port range in the demonstration as Rancher has a default port range in the 3000's and you will get an error that the port is out of range
Is Rancher free?
i use organizr but this looks way better
Thank you!
@@TechnoTim does this run in freebsd? Right now I have everything in jails.
Btw great content and greetings from a fellow software engineer
pff, my bookmarks admin folder does not fit on screen :D
how do I disable this
just delete it
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Techno Tim :) (love) ❤️
@@dustinkrejci6142 💕 double love
Nice
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Heyyy you were THE FATHER in Far Cry 5 too right?
Nice im early
welcome!
Mehh does not offer enough to make it worth the work, bookmarks work just fine. If more statistics were an option then maby.
Enhanced apps support data, like the ones featured in this video.
Seeding, uh, "Linux" ...... yeaaah, Linux.
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Nah, Heimdall isn't what you need! I'm a basic Linux user and didn't find heimdall usefull at all. The authour (Tim) need to do some comparisons.
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@@TechnoTim haha super nice, I really enjoy watching your vids...
Seems like a very basic dashboard.
Simple, yet nice!
Still using Heimdall today ? @Techno Tim
Yup! All day!