Matt The Horwood

I run swarm in my homelab and have done for years, traefik runs on my manager and uses the docker swarm networks to get to services.

My traefik compose makes all the service networks, then each service compose has an external network that all the containers connect to.

This is my example config, this might help - https://github.com/mhzawadi/docker-stash/tree/master/swarm

you could use shell scripts, but that might get very complex very quick, thats where ansible comes in. you make a playbook with the tasks to get a server from vanilla OS to how you want it.

tasks can do anything from install a package (with yum or apt or dnf) to uploading files and everything else you might need, the docs are quite good and have good examples.

As a user for about 9 years, both homelab and work. It can be overwhelming at first, but then you start to see why its used so much.

I have been using OVH for years now, both VPS and dedicated hosts. The VPS offerings are all unmetered!

asciiquarium?

Watching him, makes me think I should do videos of stuff I know. But not found the want yet

the first step is workout what you did, what did you install and where from. Then what config files got edited.

Much like a playbook for a disaster recovery test

Next is using some of the builtin modules like package and copy, make a very noddy playbook that will install stuff and copy up the config. if you have vms, you can use a test vm to see if the playbook works.

If you’ve not played ansible than this might help 👉 https://www.jeffgeerling.com/project/ansible-101-youtube-series

Hello you maybe best do some reading up on how ansible works, as it can get very complex.

This might be a good sting point 👉 https://www.jeffgeerling.com/project/ansible-101-youtube-series

Docker scout might be worth a try, I also have a look for the dockerfile. Some people have a link to the git repo the image was built from, most don’t. I then do a bit of looking and if not happy, look for a different image

I have found the docs the best place to start with anything, but have found that some don’t know how to write good documentation.

Also man pages and the tools own help -? Or -h

If you run something that has pants docs, you could always see if there is a way to help update it

Man can be searched as well, if you use less or grep a lot the same keys work.

Use / to search

FYI

Use / to search the man page, it’s basically less. Been doing that for years, as some man pages are the length of the great wall of China.

I use NFS for docker nodes, works a treat and rock solid.

That very much depends on your backup of choice, that’s also the point. How do you recover your backup?

Start with a manual recover a backup and unpack it, check import files open. Write down all the steps you did, how do you automate them.

Untill you test a backup it’s not complete, how you test it is up to you.

If you upload to a remote location, pull it down and unpack it. Check that you can open import files, if you can’t open it then the backup is not worth the dick space

There’s some really good options in this thread, just remember that whatever you pick. Unless you test your backups, they are as good as not existing.

I have been using https://newreleases.io/ to keep track of updates, it will send you messages when things get an update. you can change how often

I migrated from KeePass2 as the the DB would get out of sync and need to be merged back together. Thats why I moved to Vaultwarden, I like having my data on my own stuff

I second Vaultwarden, have been running it for a few years and even had a catastrophic host failure that I recovered from. was able to use the clients on both phone and laptop while building new host

There is a backup image you can run to take backups of the SQLite DB, used that a few times as the DB got tangled.

Also anything you host should have a good 3-2-1 backup strategy

If you have a Google workspace, use that for IDP.

Sage might have a connector for that, then when looking for anything to run or saas. Check if they have any IDP connectors, openID or SAML.

Also, why not start scanning all your stuff into your Google workspace, make shared drives for teams/groups of users.

The news app has got a lot of love in the past 6 months, I think it also does podcasts.

There is a mobile app that you can use to collect from nextcloud