Spyke

That is quite an extensive network you got there at home.

Lots of servers, VM's and docker containers working together.

Mine is just 1 small server with a bunch of docker containers running.

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lemmy.world

Very nice write up. Thank you for sharing. One thing I like to add.

I've personally moved away from nginx proxy manager, because I read an article that it has some vulnerability that don't get fixed in time. Also there are a ton of issues open on git hub. So I move to caddy, witch also is super easy to set up.

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lemmy.world

With this amount of servers it seems to be quite a job running and managing all of these. I am running just a few containers and struggle sometimes when there is a major version upgrade to get everything back up running.

How much time do you spend on maintenance for these machines and do you have a tool for it or is it just plain command line? 😯

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Monitoring is the key. I use Zabbix, but essentially you want to gather metrics and report on issues.

Once things are set up and working, even with 10s of VMs and applications, it's quite reliable. The biggest things that catch you out are updates breaking functionality, updates requiring additional manual steps, running out of disk space or expired certificates.

I find I get a spurt of energy to recreate or implement a new system every few months but things just tick over in the meantime.

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lemmy.world

Not really, I just update containers via Portainer and update the OS with a bash script. Once every few weeks I just roll through them all, only takes 30 mins at most

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For automated container updates I can highly recommend watchtower. It also works with updates for specific releases/versions where you’re not using the :latest tag. It was also relatively easy to configure for my small setup of 15 containers.

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Oh jeeeeez! That's what I get for copying and pasting a million times

EDIT: FIXED!

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lemmy.ml

This guy self hosts!

P.S Microbin added some few private paste options including adding password.

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lemmy.world

Interesting, I'll admit its been a little while since I went in there. My main concern was the ability to upload files. Text I don't care about too much, but when random people start uploading files, thats a problem

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You can control that with this env variable MICROBIN_NO_FILE_UPLOAD

Checkout the docs for other options.

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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GitPopular version control system, primarily for code
HTTPHypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
nginxPopular HTTP server

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Nice work!

Just to let you know that you've said WS-Test is both 2019 (blurb) and 2022 (specs)

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