I'm using anytype.io, it's been pretty neat so far.
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I use logseq to record any manual steps as well as any administrative actions that I take on a service. That being said, all of my homelan infrastructure is codified and stored in git in various ways so, it can be recreated as needed. There are very few manual steps in reconfiguring any of my services.
I run a local MediaWiki appliance from turnkeylinux, super easy to spin up in proxmox.
Why not push it up to GitHub? Then you also get a commit history to see your changes overtime.
Seems a lot of people are doing that.
Wow that sounds convinient, where can i find a guide describing this? Has zero experience with git 😅
There are tons of tutorials around, but the basic gist is that you only use a couple of commands (or even a good frontend) in git, especially when it's a one (wo)man show.
I highly recommend it!
Gotcha. Git is useful in so many way, but it can be confusing to learn. I don’t have a guide on hand but searching for ‘getting started with git’ will get you pretty far.
Another great way to do this that I just thought of this second is using Notion. It is in markdown.
I use the wonderful https://draw.io to sketch up my homelab and which device hosting what service. More fun when it's vidualized the way I want it 😊
I know that I would keep forgetting to update the docs, so my documentation are the ansible playbooks and docker-compose.yaml files that I use to set it all up.
That leaves anything that has to be done in some Ui undocumented, so I try to keep that to a minimum, which isn't always easy (I'm looking at you authentik!).
I use trillium that gets backed up every hour to my pc.
I also do a lot of python development so my project ideas get written down there too.
I'm not a fan of code is documentation because what happens when you step away for a month and you need to figure something out? In trillium I have a search bar. What do you have in the code?
I write down everything I built so for plus future plans in OneNote. This kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting but I want to keep a written copy complete off site in case if a complete loss. Plus I like OneNote. It’s actually a well designed product. Scripts, docker compose files and such are in GitHub.
I won't argue. I do think OneNote is a good product and I use it a lot for work.
I deploy as much as I possibly can via Ansible. Then the Ansible code serves as the documentation. I also keep the underlying OS the same on all machines to avoid different OS conventions. All my machines run Debian. The few things I cannot express in Ansible, such as network topology, I draw a diagram for in draw.io, but that's it.
Also, why not automate the certificate renewal with certbot? I have two reverse proxies and they renew their certificates themselves.
This is the way
psssst. ansible is red hat.
red hat bad.
What alternative to you suggest?
i m all good with selfhosted wiki
I meant to replace Ansible automation. Pointing out it's RH is all well and good, but what's the alternative?
My reverse proxy can do automated renewal just fine. The SMTP relay requires a DNS challenge that is manual.
Why not have the reverse proxy also do renewal for the SMTP relay certificate and just rsync it to the relay? For a while I had one of my proxies do all the renewals and the other would rsync it.
It certainly wouldn't be because I've been doing it this way for so long that it never occurred to me. Nope. Certainly not that.
In fairness, I very recently switched from a cobbled together apache web server/rev proxy config I've been carrying along in some form for well over a decade (I remember converting the config to 2.4), to an NPM container. I had some initial trouble switching my certs over to NPM and haven't revisited that yet.
I'm in the middle of a major overhaul of my tech stack. Fixing certs is on my short list.
Thanks for pointing out where I was stuck in my ways.
The only thing I save in Google Drive are my notes just in case of disaster.
Frankly the only thing I'd save in Google Docs are encrypted archives. Otherwise they'll profile the documents to send ads to you. But it is a good back up in case lightning strikes your home or something.
I don't save all my documents. Just my self-hosting, servers infraestructure notes. I don't want to have the recovery intructions in the same machine I'm recovering
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