Notes on setting up a simple basement server for media serving and camera monitoring.
Hardware is an HP Compaq 6000 Pro, purchased on Kijiji and upgraded with a pair of 2 TB hard drives. The OS is running from the stock drive, and is Ubuntu 16.04, installed via the netboot iso.
Ensure that your user has sudo permissions, and push your SSH key to the machine:
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh mike@kokiri "mkdir ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
ansible-playbook playbook.yaml --ask-sudo-pass
rsync -r --progress ~/Movies/* mike@kokiri:/mnt/storage/Movies
sudo docker stop portainer
sudo docker rename portainer portainer-old
sudo docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 8000:8000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer