In the What are YOU self-hosting? thread, there are a lot of people here who are self-hosting a huge number of applications, but there’s not a lot of discussion of the platform these things run on.
What does your self-hosted infrastructure look like?
Here are some examples of more detailed questions, but I’m sure there are plenty more topics that would be interesting:
- What hardware do you run on? Or do you use a data center/cloud?
- Do you use containers or plain packages?
- Orchestration tools like K8s or Docker Swarm?
- How do you handle logs?
- How about updates?
- Do you have any monitoring tools you love?
- Etc.
I’m starting to put together the beginning of my own homelab, and I’ll definitely be starting small but I’m interested to hear what other people have done with their setups.
I have a similar-ish setup to this and landed on having Gitea hosted outside the cluster using plain docker-compose along with renovate for dependency updates within the cluster. These two containers configuration files live on Github and have Github’s renovate-bot keep them up to date. Changes get picked up through polling the git repo and applied to the host through Portainer, though I’m planning to swap that out with a slightly more complex solution relying solely on Gitea’s new CI/CD tooling.