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 […]
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, […]
Before we dive into migrating my old database, I thought it would be important to show how I yank MAC addresses from one of my network devices. My current home wireless setup uses a router with DD-WRT installed on it. Yanking MAC addresses from my router is real easy with python by using the netmiko […]
While I laid out four quick steps in my project, the truth is that steps are never that linear. Instead my project has been conducted in small incremental steps that often jump between creating SqlAlchemy functions and using FastAPI for validation. One thing I wanted to document during this project, was module dependencies. I did […]
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 […]
In studying for Cisco’s 350-901 DEVCOR Exam, I wanted to make sure I got some hands on practice with some of the objectives. Topic 3.1’s, objectives is: Construct API requests to implement chatops with Webex Teams API. I decided to look into creating a bot that would notify me about certain things going on around […]
If you host services at home, an ISP can ruin your day by suddenly changing your home IP address. Luckily, many DNS providers allow you to automatically update your records with them via an offering known as Dynamic DNS. My DNS provider, Google Domains, supports either a client or API option and offers instructions here. […]
