How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?

I’m currently in process of “building” my own server and I’m kinda wondering how “far” most people are going, where do y’all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.

  • Geronimo Wenja@agora.nop.chat
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    1 year ago

    I’m all in on docker-compose + rootless podman. Definitely not no issues, but I’ve got the hang of the kinds of issues it presents at this point. They’re mostly around SELinux and networking, though generally the networking only gets problematic on exotic compose setups - jitsi was a huge pain for me.

    Raw server with SSH and an immutable OS too. I’m using fedora IOT for my homeserver, and apart from some initial issues with GPU drivers because of layering issues (now working) that’s been basically flawless.

    I was on OpenSuse MicroOS, but I had huge problems with BTRFS and decided to give it up in favour of EXT4 + XFS. That necessitated moving distro, because MicroOS uses BTRFS snapshots as the basis for its auto-updating/green/blue system. Fedora IOT uses rpm-ostree instead, and works on any filesystem.