treehouse 🌳🏘️

Primary Setup

This repo contains configurations and services for my home server. These steps define the primary requirements needed by the system to get up and running.

• Settings >> Power >> Performance >> Screen Blank (Never)
• Install NVIDIA driver with:
  • Determine driver with sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
  • Update lists with sudo get update
  • Install NVIDIA recommended driver (most likely nvidia-driver-570)
  • sudo reboot
• Install curl with sudo apt install curl
• Install tailscale for VPN with:
  • curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
  • sudo tailscale up
  • sudo tailscale set --ssh
• Install git to clone this repo with sudo apt install git
• Install gh for auth with:
  • sudo apt install gh
  • gh auth login
• Setup RAID 6 array with:
  • Install mdadm with sudo apt install mdadm
  • New System:
    • Ensure all 4 drives are partition free and named sd[a-d]
    • Create the array sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=6 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
    • Determine the current location with cat /proc/mdstat (wait until complete, this can take a long time)
    • Format the array with sudo fsck.ext4 /dev/md<location>
  • Reinstall OS, Existing RAID:
    • Find drives with sudo mdadm --examine --scan
    • Attach drives with sudo mdadm --assemble --scan
    • Determine the current location with cat /proc/mdstat
  • Finish Setup:
    • Determine the block ID with sudo blkid /dev/<location>
    • Create a persistent mount with sudo sh -c 'echo "UUID=<block ID> /mnt/raid ext4 defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab'
• Install Docker with apt
  • Be sure to run the post install steps (e.g., so you can run docker without sudo)
• Install NVIDIA Container Toolkit
• Set the NVIDIA toolkit to always run sudo nvidia-ctk runtime configure --runtime=docker
• Reboot with sudo reboot
• Run containers with sudo docker compose up --build in the root and in immich/

Laptop Setup

• Install tailscale (same as above)
• Add the following SSH hosts to ~/.ssh/config:

Host treehouse
  Hostname treehouse
  User treehouse

Host token
  Hostname treehouse
  User treehouse
  RequestTTY yes
  RemoteCommand sh -c "docker logs lab 2>&1 | grep -oP 'token=\K[0-9a-f]+' | tail -1"