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I am working on setting up a home server but I want it to be reproducible if I need to make large changes, switch out hardware, or restore from a failure. What do you use to handle this?

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[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Recently switched to ucore. While I cannot for the life of me get SELinux to let my containers run without Permissive mode (my server was previously Endeavour OS and either didn't have it or I disabled it long ago), I've otherwise had great success.

The config is a single yaml file that gets converted into a json file for Ignition, which sets everything up on first boot. It's an OCI-based immutable distro with automatic updating, so I can mostly just leave it to its own devices and everything has been smooth for the first week I've been using it.

My Docker root directory is on a separate drive with plenty of space, so setting up involves directing Docker to that new root directory and basically being done (which my Ignition config handles for me).