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Taking Back the Keys: Escaping Subscription Fatigue with a Zero-Trust Password Vault

This tutorial guides you through setting up a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance on TrueNAS Scale, emphasizing data sovereignty and zero-trust security principles.

Beginner
11 minutes
Nov 14, 2025

From Legacy Silicon to AI Brain: Orchestrating Complex Workloads without the Overhead

This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to deploying Milvus, a high-performance vector database, on a repurposed nine-year-old gaming PC running TrueNAS Scale. It covers the architectural decisions behind using Portainer for container orchestration, the translation of Docker Compose files for persistent ZFS storage, and the critical resource management techniques necessary to run enterprise-grade AI workloads on legacy hardware.

Beginner
15 minutes
Nov 12, 2025

Breaking Free from Cloud Oligopolies: Architecting a Zero-Trust Media and Document Vault with Immich, Nextcloud, and Tailscale

This tutorial provides a comprehensive, technical deep dive into building a secure, self-hosted media and document vault using Immich and Nextcloud, all while implementing Tailscale for zero-trust remote access. It covers the architectural decisions behind optimizing ZFS datasets for performance, configuring Docker containers for seamless integration, and establishing a secure networking layer that eliminates the need for public-facing ports.

Advanced
43 minutes
Nov 11, 2025

Observability in a Sovereign Ecosystem: Deploying Uptime Kuma and Umami on TrueNAS SCALE for Zero-Trust Website Monitoring

This tutorial guides you through the deployment of an internal observability stack within a self-hosted personal cloud environment. Leveraging TrueNAS SCALE, ZFS, and a Tailscale mesh VPN, we will set up Uptime Kuma for robust service monitoring and Umami for privacy-respecting analytics.

Beginner
14 minutes
Nov 11, 2025
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