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Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by b33j0r »

turtlebits wrote: post #7

This is cool, but are you doing this as learning experience? For a homelab it seems severely overkill. I understand it all being self-hosted, but it could be drastically simpler if you adopt a few SaaS products (using free-tier)

Personally I dig it. I recently did something similar, and felt dirty not automating everything, every step of the way.

I knew I’d want to change the LAN architecture and the services, and everything; but it was definitely intended as a learning experience for me.

Kinda looking forward to doing it over again with my new/refreshed skillset. Automated everything.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by goodpoint »

Deploying services is 1% of the work. Maintaining them, fixing bugs and bottlenecks is the real works.

And you cannot do when you deploy tools worth millions of lines of code.

Complexity matters. Those popular products make sense only if you have a 20 engineers is your team or you don't care about reliability.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by Orou »

simonw wrote: post #2

This is very cool! Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.

Are there any major benefits to using Tailscale over vanilla Wireguard?

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by yosito »

turtlebits wrote: post #7

This is cool, but are you doing this as learning experience? For a homelab it seems severely overkill. I understand it all being self-hosted, but it could be drastically simpler if you adopt a few SaaS products (using free-tier)

I have mixed feelings. There is some over-complication, but I wouldn't call infrastructure without backups complete.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by altano »

616c wrote: post #10

Pretty sweet. I have been called a devops person by others around me (and I am hesitant to proudly identify as one) because this homelab is more impressive and modular than a lot of stuff I have seen colleagues and I put together for professional stuff. Well done. I was not aware of the Cloudflare solution. Is this something someone can use, _with_ their Cloudflare Access offering, for personal dev/lab envs without b…

Cloudflare Tunnels (formerly Argo Tunnels) are a free complement to Cloudflare Access. It's an easy way to expose internal servers to the public internet, which you can then lock down with Cloudflare Access.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Orou wrote: post #14
simonw wrote: post #2

This is very cool! Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.

Are there any major benefits to using Tailscale over vanilla Wireguard?

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Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by 0xCMP »

Orou wrote: post #14
simonw wrote: post #2

This is very cool! Have you considered something like Tailscale so you can securely access it from outside your home? I've been thinking about spinning up my own home server that way, seeing as Tailscale makes it easy to securely access it from my phone when I'm out and about.

Are there any major benefits to using Tailscale over vanilla Wireguard?

NAT busting is a plus. Avoid needing DDNS and opening a port. Also easier setup for accessing other stuff on the network via that computer vs up/down rules with a standard wg config.

For a small setup thats the big thing, but for anything a little more it does key rotation, handles ips for you, and offers "magic dns" which makes all the devices get a nice DNS address when tailscale is on.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by LilBytes »

616c wrote: post #10

Pretty sweet. I have been called a devops person by others around me (and I am hesitant to proudly identify as one) because this homelab is more impressive and modular than a lot of stuff I have seen colleagues and I put together for professional stuff. Well done. I was not aware of the Cloudflare solution. Is this something someone can use, _with_ their Cloudflare Access offering, for personal dev/lab envs without b…

I set up Tailscale a little over a week ago, it boggled my mind how easy it was.

I'm using it for personal use at the moment and I'm considering changing to a paid user to my friends and family can access Emby over the internet.

I did have a few dramas getting in to work for my LxC environments but nothing a quick Google resolved for me.

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