What’s up, what’s down and what are you not sure about?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      25 days ago

      Docker compose is great! Good luck!

      I’ve been moving from docker compose to podman, and I think that’s the better long term plan for me. However, the wins here are pretty marginal, so I don’t recommend it unless you want those marginal wins and everything is already in containers. IMO: Podman > docker compose >>>no containers. Docker compose has way better examples online, so stick with that until you feel like tinkering.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          25 days ago

          Yeah, containers are great! It’s really nice knowing exactly which directories to move if I need to rebalance my services onto other hardware or something.

          Most of my services are on my NAS, so I have this setup:

          • /srv/nas/<folder> - everything here is on my RAID, and offsite backups look here (and exclude certain directories to save on cost
          • /home/<user>/containers - my git repo with configs, sans passwords/keys
          • configs w/keys live in my password manager

          Disaster recovery should be as simple as:

          1. Copy my data from backup into /srv/nas
          2. Clone my container repo
          3. Copy env files to their respective locations
          4. Run a script to get things set up

          I use specific container versions, so I should get exactly the same setup.

          I’m going to be reinstalling my NAS soon (boot drive is getting old), so we’ll see how this process works, though I’ll skip step 1 since I’m keeping the drives.