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I think the title of this blog is a bit misleading. There was definitely a lot of setup and there is still “15 min” of administrative work going on. But a good list of things one can do to maintain a server for their #selfhosting #homelab
https://cleberg.net/blog/homelab-maintenance.html
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@bryan Yeah, that’s a confusing title and article. One of the largest parts of *my* maintenance burden is updating things, which the author seems to do periodically with the `docker-update` alias… and even setting that aside, a lot of the work goes towards resilience. It’s easy to run a bunch of things via Docker images. It’s hard to make them not fall flat on their face the moment something goes wrong.
@shivjm
I also run a good number of docker containers. I use docker-compose and use a tool called watchtower to keep updates pretty automated. But major updates will always require some direct attention.
I feel anxious just thinking about automated updates of Postgres or MySQL for example.
https://hub.docker.com/r/nickfedor/watchtower
@bryan Oh yeah, database upgrades are bloody scary. And to be clear, I don’t have anything against Docker containers; rather, my point was that you can’t avoid the maintenance burden if you want to protect yourself against untoward happenings.