Playing with, developing for, and using the Raspberry Pi
Keeping your DNS queries from your local network to public DNS servers private in transit by using DNS over TLS on a Raspberry Pi is ridiculously easy.
Copying backyard camera videos and pictures to a remote web server using rclone
Copying backyard camera videos and pictures to a local web server using rclone
Copying backyard camera videos and pictures to a Google Drive using rclone
Copying backyard camera videos and pictures to a Microsoft OneDrive using rclone
Streaming from a Raspberry Pi as a backyard public camera
A guide to some of your options for your target install ’type’ when using Alpine Linux
This configuration is like diskless mode except that home, parts of /var, and others are mounted for persistence. Also, like a data install with only parts of /var made persistent.
home
/var
Easily create an encrypted LVM ‘sys’ (aka ‘classic’) install using Alpine Linux 3.16.0
Obtain the right Alpine Linux image for your Raspberry Pi model
Prepare the Alpine Linux bootstrap SD card for your Raspberry Pi using Gnome ‘Disks’
Copy the needed files to your SD card, from the Raspbery Pi tarball for Alpine Linux
Tweaks to Alpine Linux for specific hardware including packages and kernel parameters
This article describes setting up a Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a private Gitea (lightweight Git hosting) server.
Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a PostgreSQL server with external storage.
You may find yourself in need of a ‘bare metal’ server. If the workload is not too demanding, a Raspberry Pi can be a good choice.
For small deployments the Raspberry Pi is for servers.