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Homer, and creating dashboards. Is the are 'generator' out there? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by IAmDrNoLife@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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I'm new to self-hosting, and I've stumbled upon Homer which seems like a good tool. However, it's real tedius to go through editing the config file VIM based constantly.

So I'm just wondering if there exists any GUI based editors or generators out there, that allows me to specify the number of service groups and what service items that are in the group, and then get that exported as a .yml file.

If there is no tool out there, I'm considering just creating my own. But before sinking in those hours, I thought I might as well quickly ask in here and see if such a tool already exists?

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[–] ______-_-_________@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instead of using VIM or some other Linux editor to edit files in the command line, I recommend setting up VS Code or Code Server so you can make changes there. This is what I currently do. I then push the changes to my Gitea instance and then use wget to move them to my homer directory. Allows me to keep track of changes I made that may potentially break homer AND if something happens to corrupt the file, I always have a backed up source. I need to get into the habit of doing this for the countless number of container compose files I've got all over the place.

[–] IAmDrNoLife@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, using a more powerful text editing tool, or just one more user friendly, that’s a good idea! But it’s not really VIM that’s the annoying part for me, rather just having to write so much of the “same” text. Which was why I was curious about any GUI based editors for it.

But it’s still a really good idea, especially using version control for the config files.