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What do you use to document your home lab? (lemmy.procrastinati.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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My home lab has a mild amount of complexity and I'd like practice some good habits about documenting it. Stuff like, what each system does, the OS, any notable software installed and, most importantly, any documentation around configuration or troubleshooting.

i.e. I have an internal SMTP relay that uses a letsencrypt SSL cert that I need to use the DNS challenge to renew. I've got the steps around that sitting in a Google Doc. I've got a couple more google docs like that.

I don't want to get super complicated but I'd like something a bit more structured than a folder full of google docs. I'd also like to pull it in-house.

Thanks

Edit: I appreciate all the feedback I've gotten on this post so far. There have been a lot of tools suggested and some great discussion about methods. This will probably be my weekend now.

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[–] grimer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Any chance you wouldn't mind sharing the SSL renewal doc? Redacted of course. Mine is coming up and I'd like to do it correctly this time. :)

[–] gobbling871@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Comments inside the docker-compose.yml files?

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 2 years ago

I'm just starting to dip my toes in docker. Most of my stuff is kvm and physical.

Due to a desire to get off Ubuntu I have a goal to rebuild everything on Debian and/or containers and would like to document as I go.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I use bookstack. Simple selfhosted wiki.

[–] Johnny5@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I run a local MediaWiki appliance from turnkeylinux, super easy to spin up in proxmox.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have a git repo for it, needless to say. And so README.md plus a network diagram from https://app.diagrams.net/

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

I constructed a simple kbase for myself using Docbase. I love it.

[–] ComptitiveSubset@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I write down everything I built so for plus future plans in OneNote. This kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting but I want to keep a written copy complete off site in case if a complete loss. Plus I like OneNote. It’s actually a well designed product. Scripts, docker compose files and such are in GitHub.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 2 years ago

I won't argue. I do think OneNote is a good product and I use it a lot for work.

[–] pound_heap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Some stuff is in Joplin, some stuff is in wiki.js. Joplin lacks organization features. Wiki.js stores stuff in database and has problems with search, both are possible to fix, I believe...

Occasionally I remember about problems with this setup, but I'm too lazy to fix or replace it

[–] haasie_237@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

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