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How do you manage your home server configuration? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by halloween_spookster@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Packer builds the terraformable/openTofuable templates to launch into the hypervisor where chef (eventually mgmtConfig) will manage them from there until they die.

All that is launched by git. Fire and forget. Updates are cronned.

There are no containers. Don't got time to fuck about. If Systemd wasn't an absolute embarrassment I'd not worry about updates even as much as I do, which isn't much aside from the aforementioned cancer.