April 17, 2022

Set multiple local IP address targets for pihole Local DNS record to support a multi cluster layout (like docker swarm or kubernetes)

If you are running multiple devices in a cluster layout, like docker swarm or kubernetes, you may have multiple IPs that could lead to the same service. And to make things easier you probably have set a local DNS record within your piHole to give the service an easier local domain name instead of remembering […]

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April 27, 2021

Create a pihole High Availability setup with 2 pihole instances on Proxmox and Gravity Sync

In this guide we will cover how to create a High Availability pihole setup with Gravity Sync, so next time one of your pihole is not reachable, your DNS requests are still resolving over the fallback pihole instance. Lets get started! Getting started: setup a second machine First, either create a second virtual machine if […]

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August 23, 2020

Install pihole on a ProxMox LXC ubuntu container and setup as Primary DNS for a Unifi Network

Today we install the famous DNS advertisment blocker pihole in a LXC container on a Proxmox server, and set this as our network wide primary DNS server on the Unifi controller. The cool thing is that even as pihole was born as a Raspberry Pi project, it can easily run on most other Debian-based operating […]

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