Home Server

Configs etc for my home network/server

Setup

• Hardware: Dell Wyse 5070 from eBay)
• OS: Ubuntu Server

Network Configuration

Netplan

1. sudo wget -O /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JMontagu/home-server/refs/heads/main/01-netcfg.yaml && sudo chmod 600 /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml
2. sudo netplan try — check networking still works, if not config will revert after 120 seconds
   • ping -c 4 192.168.86.1
   • ping -c 4 8.8.8.8
3. sudo netplan apply

Network Config

Defines network topology to be manually applied

Infra

Docker

1. Install docker using official instructions
2. Pull docker-compose: sudo curl -o docker-compose.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JMontagu/home-server/refs/heads/main/docker-compose.yaml
3. Run containers: sudo docker compose up -d

Services

ddclient

Automatically syncs this servers IP address with Cloudflare so we can host public services off jademontagu.com:

1. Log into Cloudflare Dashboard
   1. Go to "My Profile" → "API Tokens"
   2. Create a token with "Zone:Zone:Read" and "Zone:DNS:Edit" permissions for your domain
2. sudo nano /etc/environment
3. Add this line CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=your_actual_token_here
4. Setup ddclient conf: sudo curl -o ddclient.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JMontagu/home-server/refs/heads/main/ddclient.conf