New Peira 1.2.0 adds Datacenter Manager and Backup Server tabs
Peira Labs builds tools for people who run their own servers: a native control panel for Proxmox VE, a health check for VPN download stacks, and an open specification for answers that report which revision they came from.
Linux · Apache-2.0 · releases signed with the Peira Labs key
Products
Peira, deadair and revcheck are open source, and each one’s documentation says plainly what it does not do.
A native desktop control panel for a Proxmox VE homelab. Read-only with an auditor token, with management actions when you give it a token that allows them.
Checks that a gluetun and qBittorrent stack is moving traffic, not only configured. It stays quiet when the queue is idle, so it is safe to alert on.
[ok] tunnel 203.0.113.42
[fail] port_agreement forwarded 51413, listening 6881
[fail] traffic 3 torrents want data; 0 bytes in 900sExample output from the deadair README.
An open specification for systems that answer from a copy of their data, such as a search index or a cache. It asks three questions:
tofu plan reports no changes and a check-mode Ansible run reports nothing changed. The method is described in the Cluster-as-Code series.Approach
Every Peira release ships with checksums signed by the Peira Labs release key. deadair and revcheck publish a SHA256SUMS file beside their binaries.
Source: Peira 1.2.0 release
Peira’s documentation names the distributions it was tested on, how they were tested, and the platforms that are out of scope.
Source: Peira compatibility
Peira works with a read-only Proxmox token until you need management actions. deadair only reads; its one write is the login it needs in order to read.
Source: deadair scope
The Revision Agreement asks a system to report which revision an answer came from, and to refuse or label the answer when its copy is behind.
Source: requirements
Open specification
Search indexes, caches and replicas fall behind the data they copy, and the answers still look right. This simulation runs entirely in the page and sends nothing anywhere. Change the source, then ask.
Source
r12 Backups start at 02:00.
Copy
r12 Backups start at 02:00.
Unchecked reader
Not asked yet.
Checked reader
Not asked yet.
Worked example
The unchecked reader is level 0 in the specification. The checked reader meets level 3: it reports its revision (R1), compares the copy with the source (R2), and refuses when they disagree (R3). R3 also allows answering with a machine-readable label naming the stale copy and both revisions.
Questions about the products, bug reports, or anything else.