Tag: Self host

This site now lives on an Alpine instance via Vultr.com public cloud. No more Azure Storage Blob web hosting (Microsoft) for me. And though it wasn’t a financial decision, I save money!

Easily create an encrypted LVM ‘sys’ (aka ‘classic’) install using Alpine Linux 3.16.0

A guide to some of your options for you target install ’type’ when using Alpine Linux

You need to add the tools that will let you format/create one or more additional volumes/filesystems of your choice.

Raspberry Pi-specific notes for preparing and installing Alpine Linux

Use the setup-* scripts to setup networking for bootstrap package installation on Alpine Linux

The following are not part of the base install, but either can be essential to system function (like adding boot entropy for some headless systems like the Raspberry Pi) or are widely accepted best practices (like creating a non-root admin user and limiting time spent as root).