Hello everyone,

I am about to renovate my selfhosting setup (software wise). And then thought about how I could help my favourite lemmy community become more active. Since I am still learning many things and am far away from being a sysadmin I don’t (just) want tell my point of view but thought about a series of posts:

Your favourite piece of selfhosting

I thought about asking everyone of you for your favourite piece of software for a specific use case. But we have to start at the bottom:

Operating systems and/or type 1 hypervisors

You don’t have to be an expert or a professional. You don’t even have to be using it. Tell us about your thoughts about one piece of software. Why would you want to try it out? Did you try it out already? What worked great? What didn’t? Where are you stuck right now? What are your next steps? Why do you think it is the best tool for this job? Is it aimed at beginners or veterans?

I am eager to hear about your thoughts and stories in the comments!

And please also give me feedback to this idea in general.

  • nitrolife@rekabu.ruEnglish
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    13 days ago

    archlinux + podman / libvirtd + nomad (libvirt and docker plugins) + ansible / terraform + vault / consul sometimes

    UPD:

    archlinux - base os. You never need change major version and that is great. I update core systems every weekend.

    podman / libvirtd - 2 types of core abstractions. podman - docker containers management, libvirtd - VM management.

    nomad - Hashicorp orcestrator. You can run exec, java application, container or virtual machine on one way with that. Can integrate with podman and libvirtd.

    ansible - VM configuration playbooks + core system updates

    terraform - engine for deploy nomad jobs (docker containers. VMs. execs or something else)

    Vault - K/V storage. I save here secrets for containers and VMs

    consul - service networking solution if you need realy hard network layer

    As a result, I’m not really sure if it’s a simple level or a complex one, but it’s very flexible and convenient for me.

    UPD2: As a result, I described the applications level, but in fact it is 1 very thick server on AMD Epic with archlinux. XD By the way, the lemmy node from which I write is just on it. =) And yes, it’s still selfhosted.