The latest articles on DEV Community by Jakob Overgaard (@stenit). https://dev.to/stenit https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3973540%2Faa4d53a6-cd3f-4e94-a381-83db80385704.png https://dev.to/stenit en Jakob Overgaard Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:43:15 +0000 https://dev.to/stenit/a-remote-shutdown-button-that-got-completely-out-of-hand-3l29 https://dev.to/stenit/a-remote-shutdown-button-that-got-completely-out-of-hand-3l29 <p><strong>Hola dev.to</strong>! :-)</p> <p>RemotePower started as a web page with one button that turned a machine off. Scope creep did the rest, and it's now a self-hosted control plane for a whole Linux fleet: monitoring + alerting, CMDB, CVE scanning, patching, browser SSH, Proxmox, drift detection - the six tools you'd normally stitch together in your homelab, in one place. Agents <strong>poll</strong> the server over outbound HTTPS, so no inbound ports on the clients, ever. Enrollment is a 6-digit PIN. Underneath it's still deliberately boring: nginx, Python CGI, flat JSON files (but you can scale up with PostgreSQL and PgBouncer if you have more than 1000+ agents).</p> <p>The AI bit is optional and off by default, with RAG over your fleet - ask why a host is unhappy and the answer cites that host, not generic advice. There's an MCP server too, so Claude can poke at your fleet through guarded, audited tools (no arbitrary <code>run_command</code>, on purpose).</p> <p>If you want a fresh, lightweight alternative that doesn't need its own server farm to tell you another server is sad - this is it. Free, MIT, and it won't email you a newsletter. There's a demo available at Github below:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/tyxak/remotepower" rel="noopener noreferrer">github.com/tyxak/remotepower</a></p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fx3u8a6ibfudrcldp4yfg.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fx3u8a6ibfudrcldp4yfg.png" alt="RemotePower dashboard showing fleet overview with device status" width="800" height="400"></a><br> <a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fzwfn1b02x4uj12cfpncl.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fzwfn1b02x4uj12cfpncl.png" alt="RemotePower device drawer with CPU, RAM and disk metrics" width="800" height="400"></a><br> <a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fns4yl0hmp1v0ujm1fa78.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fns4yl0hmp1v0ujm1fa78.png" alt="RemotePower CVE scanning page listing vulnerabilities by severity" width="800" height="403"></a></p> <p>Ping me, if you have any questions.</p> homelab security devops automation