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Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by khuedoan »

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…

(Repo owner here) You're not wrong; it's still not easy for me even though I do this in my day job.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by LilBytes »

616c wrote: post #29
LilBytes wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ...

Nope. It runs on every client that I want to remotely access.

This includes a Proxmox host, a few LxC environments, home PC, work laptop and on my phone.

I did have some issues getting it running on WSL2 but as long as I can get to the Windows host running it (and I can), that's fine for me.

I didn't need to change anything on my network equipment which is why I was so amazed at the ease of it's use. I do have a static IPv4 at home but from what I understood that had absolutely no bearing on my ease of installation.

No port forwarding, no changes to my Meraki MX gateway, no nothing. It was essentially plug and play.

Edit: looks like BSD is supported too. Though I don't have a BSD environment to test it on.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1074/connect-to-your-nas/?q=Bsd

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by khuedoan »

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)

(Repo owner here) Yes, I'm mostly doing this as a learning exercise; there's still a lot of work to be done before I can rely on it to host my services.

> For a homelab it seems severely overkill

Isn't that the point of homelab? ;)

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by Axsuul »

candiddevmike wrote: post #44

I enjoy reading about homelabs that aren't using kubernetes or some other scheduler and how they're doing it/what the full stack looks like. This is just another "how I installed kubernetes" thing only without any real scale behind it. There are other ways to deploy and run things, and it takes people toying around with alternatives for something unique to spring up.

I run mine using HashiStack (Nomad, Vault, Consul), highly recommend going that route over Kubernetes which I have also used.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by khuedoan »

quocanh wrote: post #4

I love this! Do you experiment with your tech stack? Swapping things in and out to see which apps are best?

(Repo owner here) Yes, you can see the visualized history of that here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/s9bfht/the_evoluti...

I think the OP discovered my homelab through that post.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by movedx »

oceanplexian wrote: post #45
candiddevmike wrote: post #44

I enjoy reading about homelabs that aren't using kubernetes or some other scheduler and how they're doing it/what the full stack looks like. This is just another "how I installed kubernetes" thing only without any real scale behind it. There are other ways to deploy and run things, and it takes people toying around with alternatives for something unique to spring up.

Yeah I’m with you. I run a rack at home with servers running a few applications orchestrated with a bit of Puppet, it’s 100x more reliable than K8s, I’m not having to do weird hacks to make persistent storage work, edit dozens of YAML files and run a whole host of dodgy control plane services. Sadly, I leaned this the hard way by setting up a 4-node k8s cluster and realizing bare-metal support is abysmal and the main…

I'm building my own education platform around getting people into IT and towards a career in Cloud and DevOps.

A few months back I built a Nomad based cluster with Consul and was like: wow! This is super cool... but it's also expensive and complex.

I'm going to be building out the platform with an ALB, two EC2 Instances in an AutoScaling Group based on an AMI I bake with Ansible and Packer. I'll use Terraform for the entire infrastructure.

The release pipeline for content updates (it's an MkDocs/Material based book with videos blended in) will be me updating the AMI and firing off a `terraform apply`.

I won't be using Docker. I won't require or need an orchestration engine.

It's a static website delivered via a custom web server written in Go (as I need custom "Have you paid to view this content?" logic.) That's about as complex as it gets for now.

I'm actually looking forward to implementing it and watching as something so simple hopefully goes on to allow me to build and scale a business.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by movedx »

Axsuul wrote: post #54
candiddevmike wrote: post #44

I enjoy reading about homelabs that aren't using kubernetes or some other scheduler and how they're doing it/what the full stack looks like. This is just another "how I installed kubernetes" thing only without any real scale behind it. There are other ways to deploy and run things, and it takes people toying around with alternatives for something unique to spring up.

I run mine using HashiStack (Nomad, Vault, Consul), highly recommend going that route over Kubernetes which I have also used.

I've come from bare metal, to virtualisation, to Cloud. I then went from AutoScaling Groups and AMIs to K8s and Docker Images. Recently I went from K8s to Nomad+Consul and Docker Images.

Now I'm building a small platform to host a business I've started and I'm going back to ASGs with simple EC2 Instances.

There's really no need for the features Nomad/K8s offer at almost any scale outside of a few big companies.

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by throwaway894345 »

candiddevmike wrote: post #44

I enjoy reading about homelabs that aren't using kubernetes or some other scheduler and how they're doing it/what the full stack looks like. This is just another "how I installed kubernetes" thing only without any real scale behind it. There are other ways to deploy and run things, and it takes people toying around with alternatives for something unique to spring up.

Personally I don’t use Kubernetes for the scalability, but because I haven’t seen anything else remotely maintainable (and yes, Kubernetes still has lots of room for improvement).

I don’t want to build a good chunk of Kubernetes myself just to host my software. It’s nice to be able to Google for solutions to my problems or to ask on various forums/chat rooms (or in many cases, not have the problems in the first place because someone else committed the fixes to Kubernetes long ago).

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by rhizome »

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.

Honest question: why not SSH?

Re: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

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Post by throwaway894345 »

oceanplexian wrote: post #45
candiddevmike wrote: post #44

I enjoy reading about homelabs that aren't using kubernetes or some other scheduler and how they're doing it/what the full stack looks like. This is just another "how I installed kubernetes" thing only without any real scale behind it. There are other ways to deploy and run things, and it takes people toying around with alternatives for something unique to spring up.

Yeah I’m with you. I run a rack at home with servers running a few applications orchestrated with a bit of Puppet, it’s 100x more reliable than K8s, I’m not having to do weird hacks to make persistent storage work, edit dozens of YAML files and run a whole host of dodgy control plane services. Sadly, I leaned this the hard way by setting up a 4-node k8s cluster and realizing bare-metal support is abysmal and the main…

Kubernetes is just young. The story for bare metal is improving all the time. You just have to pick the right components for things like storage and load balancing, which is tedious but no more so than picking the right combination of tools to use to build your own Kubernetes replacement. In time even this pain will go away once someone builds a decent bare metal distro with all of this stuff available out of the box (k3s is trending in that direction).
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