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How do you document your Homelab? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by MIXEDUNIVERS@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello, how do you document your home lab? Whether it's a small server or a big one with firewall and more nodes. I have a small pc with Proxmox and there I have a VM with OpnSense. After I've entered my VPN as a interface in OpenSense, I noticed that I slowly lose the overview with the different rules that I have built in my firewall. And I know that my setup is relatively easy in comparison to others here in this community. I want to have a quick Overview at the various VMs, like the Lxc container, Docker containers that I have in this and the IP addresses that I have assigned to them. I search for a simple an intuitiv way for beginners.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every time I set up anything, I do one of two things:

If it's container based, it gets a commented docker compose file in my custom orchestration
If it's on a host system, the changes are scripted and commented in a setup script, which are run on new machines. If the acrit is specific to one machine, it is configured as such

I find in-setup docs to be best for a home lab, plus if I have to replace hardware, it's fast.

Fun fact, I do it for laptops and desktops, too.

[–] CapitalNumbers@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is basically what i ended up doing to - glad to see my approach verified somewhat ha ha!

but yeah, in general whenever i make a change / add new service, i always try and add those steps to some sort of setup.sh / docker-compose

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yea comes in super handy when you always want dropbear SSH for remote unlock, or making sure both RAID disks boot, etc.

I do it for all my software setup, too. A shell script for each, then a for loop that asks to run each. But I also made https://github.com/fmstrat/gam, so maybe I just like overkill bash.