Upgrading Pi-hole is easy:

pihole -up

However, this doesn't work if you're running a Docker container.

docker exec -it pihole pihole -up
Function not supported in Docker images

To get Pi-hole Docker container upgraded, you have to force Docker to pull the latest Pi-hole version and redeploy the container.

docker pull …

Let's Encrypt will issue you free SSL certificates, but you have to verify you control the domain, before they issue the certificates.

The 2 major ways of proving control over the domain:

1. Create a specific page on your webserver that they can reach.
2. Create a temporary DNS TXT record.

I went with option #2, as my web …

I've been using Wireguard for a while when away from my house for a couple of reasons:

1. Access to my home network's servers, services, and resources.

2. Security, when accessing the internet via insecure wifi.

3. Ability to use my PiHole (DNS sinkhole).

It's been working great, but as with everything else, I wanted to …

I was using Webvirtcloud install on my KVM device, but decided to switch to a Docker container, as I've been trying to move as much as possible to Docker, for the sake of simplicity, and easier recovery if/when something goes wrong.

The install was easy, but there were a few commands that had to be run as a different …

As I'd moved from TrueNAS to Ubuntu, I was moving most everything to a Docker container, and Transmission (using OpenVPN) was no different.

Under TrueNAS, I'd used a jail (https://www.nodinrogers.com/posts/2020-11-07-freenas-transmission-jail-with-openvpn/), but jails don't exist in Ubuntu, so Docker is the way to go. …

When I first started using/testing Hugo, I was using a Linux virtual machine to run it.

After I decided to use it, I wanted to move it from needing a full virtual machine to a Docker container.

This was especially important, given the nature of Hugo, as a minimal application that doesn't require a lot of resources. …