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How should I properly document my homelab? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by enchantedgoldapple@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Reading earlier comments in this community made me consider documenting the workings of my homelab to some extent, ie. docker configuration, credentials, ports and links of my services. I've tried to make it consistent and organised but it still feels half baked and insufficient. Everyone suggests documenting everything you do in your homelab but don't state how. Since I've hardly had experience running my own server, I would really appreciate observing the blueprint of some other fellow selfhoster for copying or taking inspiration from rather than considering documentation to be 'left as an exercise for the reader'.

Edit: I already have a note-taking solution with me. What I wish to ask is to know what needs to be documented and what the structure of the documentation should be to accommodate the information.

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[–] PullPantsUnsworn@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ansible and Nix. Code is the document.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been in the process of migrating everything over do Nix. Love it so much.

What hole does Ansible fill for you? I haven't looked into it in the past really, so just curious. I have a single Paoxmox node so don't really need horizontal scaling orchestration.

[–] PullPantsUnsworn@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't use NixOS for my home server mainly because of lack of MAC (SELinux or AppArmor). I use Ansible to configure AlmaLinux from package installation to firewall to systemd services.

I use NixOS for desktop and development machines.

[–] imnotroot@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How do you upgrade your AlmaLinux from version X to Y? Do you install a new instance or do you upgrade it? I'm asking because I remember that RedHat recommendations is to reinstall.