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Bitwarden is a password manager that allows users to generate and store strong passwords. It also handles other types of data like secure notes and credit card information. At the time of this writing, it is one of the best password managers out there because in addition to offering strong and zero-knowledge encryption, the codebase is open source. This means that anyone can inspect the code and run it for their personal use. In this article, we’ll go over the steps to build a fully functioning Bitwarden instance that anyone can run on a server at home. ...

Pihole is a great tool to protect your home network from trackers and annoying ads. It can be deployed either directly on a server or in a Docker container. I personally lean toward using Docker whenever possible for the flexibility and isolation it provides. Services deployed in Docker containers are significantly easier to migrate than raw installations and Pihole is no exception. Running Pihole on Docker is pretty straightforward, but things start to get a bit complicated when it comes to enabling DHCP - using Pihole to serve DHCP requests. With Docker’s default bridge network mode, we can’t use Pihole as a DHCP server. So we have two options: (1) use the host network mode, or (2) run a DHCP relay (more on this later). ...