cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/61139432
I seriously can't believe how much progress he's made for the FOSS community. He actually might take a bite out of the big 3's profits with this
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60171730
Hey y'all, looking to land my first DevOps Engineering role soon, and figured I should use enterprise software as much as possible for some resume building and personal practice. For reference, I've set up a NAS server once before but haven't got too much experience outside of that. Basing this on some DevOps Engineers I've talked to IRL and some friends who hire engineers, but wanted extra community feedback.
Use case: parents are data hoarders, probably have at least 4tb saved composed of every type of media you can think of, so hopefully the whole family can use this when I'm done with it all. Otherwise, aiming to be able to claim experience with enterprise grade DevOps software.
Some of this is personal research, a lot of Reddit research, and some LLM comparisons used to choose between two software systems. Please let me know what you'd keep or change! I'm still kinda new to this :p
Hardware: (old gaming pc)
- Intel i5-9600K
- 32GB DDR4 RAM
- GTX 1070
- Gigabyte Z370XP SLI
- Seagate IronWolf 12TB 3.5" SATA
Hypervisor & OS:
- Proxmox VE (type-1 hypervisor)
- Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS (VM operating system)
- cloud-init (VM provisioning automation)
Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
- Terraform (infrastructure provisioning)
- Proxmox Terraform Provider (VM automation)
- Ansible (configuration management)
- GitHub Actions (CI/CD pipelines)
Containerization & Orchestration:
- Docker (container runtime/builds)
- Kubernetes/k3s (container orchestration)
- Helm (Kubernetes package manager)
- ArgoCD (GitOps continuous deployment)
Networking & Ingress:
- Traefik (ingress controller/reverse proxy)
- MetalLB (bare-metal load balancer)
- cert-manager (TLS certificate automation)
- WireGuard (VPN software)
- Surfshark (VPN service)
Secrets & Security:
- HashiCorp Vault (secrets management)
- External Secrets Operator (Kubernetes secret syncing)
- SSH hardening (secure remote access)
Observability & Monitoring:
- Prometheus (metrics collection)
- Grafana (monitoring dashboards/visualization)
- Loki (centralized log aggregation)
- Promtail (log shipping agent)
- Alertmanager (alert routing/notifications)
Storage & Backups:
- ZFS (filesystem/storage management)
- NFS (network storage)
- Persistent Volumes/PVCs (Kubernetes storage)
- Restic (encrypted backups)
- Velero (Kubernetes backup/disaster recovery)
Container Registry & CI Infrastructure:
- GitHub Container Registry or Harbor (container registry)
- GitHub Runner (self-hosted CI runner)
AWS Emulation:
- LocalStack (AWS cloud emulation)
- Terraform AWS Provider (AWS IaC practice)
- MinIO (S3-compatible object storage)
Self-Hosted Applications:
- Prowlarr (indexer manager)
- Sonarr (TV show management automation)
- Radarr (movie management automation)
- LazyLibrarian (book management automation)
- Lidarr (music management automation)
- Homarr (application dashboard)
- Seerr/Overseerr (media request management)
- Jellyfin (media server)
- qBittorrent (torrent client)
- NZBGet (Usenet downloader)
- Immich (photo gallery & backup)
- Mealie (meal planner)
- Moonlight (low-latency remote gaming)
- Kavita (ebook/manga/audiobook reader)
- Funkwhale (music streaming)
- Grafana (monitoring dashboards)
Hey y'all, looking to land my first DevOps Engineering role soon, and figured I should use enterprise software as much as possible for some resume building and personal practice. For reference, I've set up a NAS server once before but haven't got too much experience outside of that. Basing this on some DevOps Engineers I've talked to IRL and some friends who hire engineers, but wanted extra community feedback.
Use case: parents are data hoarders, probably have at least 4tb saved composed of every type of media you can think of, so hopefully the whole family can use this when I'm done with it all. Otherwise, aiming to be able to claim experience with enterprise grade DevOps software.
Some of this is personal research, a lot of Reddit research, and some LLM comparisons used to choose between two software systems. Please let me know what you'd keep or change! I'm still kinda new to this :p
Hardware: (old gaming pc)
Hypervisor & OS:
Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
Containerization & Orchestration:
Networking & Ingress:
Secrets & Security:
Observability & Monitoring:
Storage & Backups:
Container Registry & CI Infrastructure:
AWS Emulation:
Self-Hosted Applications:
Hi everyone! I've got a question about some guys at work who are pitching that we need a server. This is mostly a sanity check, but I'm pretty sure they're full of shit
The law firm I work for uses a CRM that doesn't have an open API. This is important. You can access a daily updated copy of your data from an S3 bucket with an API, but it's essentially read-only for that reason.
They said they want to set up a server for the firm for " automation" using n8n. We can't use n8n because it doesn't have a native integration with our CRM. They also set up Dropbox for the firm (prior to my time starting) and the firm pays for OneDrive with Microsoft suite already...
Then they said they want local ai for automation so they'll
"Just put a 5070ti in there" For an ai agent for the entire 15-20 person firm. They also never specified what said ai would do. I also think it's completely not viable
Then they said all 3 locations can just use tailscale to access the server simultaneously. All of these people minus me and one other are completely non-technical. I help them restart Excel once a week non-technical.
I cannot possibly think of a viable use case for what they're describing. Am I cinical or are they just looking to make some cash off whatever project they don't know anything about?
this is my current plan, but I've yet to selfhost for longer than a month or two previously. what do y'all think of my choices?
Proxmox HV running TrueNAS+Debian Stable Server
Prowlarr: Indexer manager Sonarr: TV show management automation Radarr: Movie management automation LazyLibrarian: Book management automation Lidarr: Music management automation Homarr: Dashboard for managing applications Seerr: Media request management system Jellyfin: Media server qBittorrent: Torrent client NZBGet: Usenet downloader WireGuard: VPN software Surfshark: VPN service Portainer: Docker container management UI Watchtower: Automated Docker container updates Immich: Photo gallery & backup Mealie: Meal planner Moonlight: Low latency remote gaming (retro game emulator focused) Kavita: Ereader for books, manga, audiobooks, most formats Funkwhale: Music streaming
open to suggestions, but wanted to see if the community would perceive this as a reasonably interlocked software system or if i need to be using other software.
incredibly new and lowkey uninformed by trying my best to learn. plz be nice lol
