A small homelab blog
Now that I’ve got a functioning app, my final step in my original plan is to create a container of it. I referenced several sites but ultimately started with FastAPI’s Build a Docker Image for FastAPI.The page helped me get started, but since it was a pretty basic example, I had to make adjustments to […]
When you begin exploring APIs to work with, you’ll find that many come with outstanding documentation and offer live examples. One of the things that made FastAPI so intriguing to me is that they offer this right out of the box. In the previous post, I showed how to make several API endpoints and you […]
Now that we have the ability to interact with our database, its time to explore how we can use our API to interact with the queries we made. In this post, I’ll show how to pull a list of the mac addresses currently on my network, followed by pulling information about a specific mac address. […]
In my previous posts I’ve laid out: Now its time to start interacting with my database using SQLAlchemy. For this project I primarily referenced FastAPI’s excellent guide on working with SQL. Their guide provides an excellent walk-through and has served as my reference point for both SQLAlchemy and FastAPI projects. If you’re struggling with either, […]
Since setting up my home lab five years ago, I’ve loved to track lots of data points about my network. This all initially started with huge CSV files that I would rotate either yearly or monthly and display with a graphing tool called dygraphs. As I continued to learn, I slowly introduced projects on my […]
