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Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by mcescalante »

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.

I just stumbled on a self hosted project similar to tailscale: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker. There is also https://github.com/juanfont/headscale which is an open sourced implementation of the Tailscale coordination server. Tailscale "just works" and makes things incredibly easy for personal use, but it's awesome that there are also similar self-hosted options out there

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by smasher164 »

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.

This is how I currently manage my RPi NAS on NixOS: https://github.com/smasher164/nas.

Exposing Home Assistant over it allows me to do things like turn my lights off when I'm away from home, without exposing stuff to the public internet. https://www.blog.akhil.cc/shelly-dimmer

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by erulabs »

Awesome! hajimari is neat, haven't seen that before. I'm building a startup that's trying to put a good chunk of this in a box for folks to buy and plug-n-play self-hosting (as much as that is possible). Since you're running k3s already, you might checkout our templates at https://kubesail.com/templates for more home-hosting apps :)

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by akkartik »

The question I have whenever I see something like this is what the upgrade process looks like. How much time do you spend per month upgrading dependencies, how many mailing lists you're subscribed to, etc. When the log4j thing blew up, how long did it take you to gain confidence that you were no longer impacted?

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by pishpash »

extinctpotato wrote: post #8

This is a very good example of how you can save yourself the mental hurdle of remembering how to configure something etc. I can only suspect how much time, trial and error this must've taken. This is my main issue with IaC. The concept really lends itself to any kind of modern infra, however I'm really put off by the sheer amount of time it takes me to whip out a bunch of Ansible playbooks and helper scripts, and on…

Today's stack is way too complex, and fragile. The entire stack relies on the goodwill of other projects to continue to be maintained/not have breaking changes. Even with the initial setup cost s(h)aved there will be a continuous maintenance burden. What you get in abstraction and automation you pay back in babysitting the additional connecting interfaces.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by artdigital »

extinctpotato wrote: post #8

This is a very good example of how you can save yourself the mental hurdle of remembering how to configure something etc. I can only suspect how much time, trial and error this must've taken. This is my main issue with IaC. The concept really lends itself to any kind of modern infra, however I'm really put off by the sheer amount of time it takes me to whip out a bunch of Ansible playbooks and helper scripts, and on…

It’s a good habit to always use tools like terraform for cloud or Ansible/Salt/Puppet for machines instead of directly doing something.

Especially cloud setups that just run containers are relatively easy to get idempotent with terraform

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Post by 616c »

LilBytes wrote: post #20
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.

I've been thinking about it but I wanted to set it up on a BSD VPN appliance, and I was not sure that was easy for pfSense in an easy installable way, then expose some NUC systems.

Are you just running it on a system behind a firewall/router/NAT-ed network device or on a terminating device itself?

But, as usual, far behind on my personal projects ...

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by zenlot »

akkartik wrote: post #25

The question I have whenever I see something like this is what the upgrade process looks like. How much time do you spend per month upgrading dependencies, how many mailing lists you're subscribed to, etc. When the log4j thing blew up, how long did it take you to gain confidence that you were no longer impacted?

Doesn't really matter, as long as it's fun. Some people play games, so people enjoy re-configuring their setup (I do enjoy it too). It's not a business / prod env setting.
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