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.
Raspberry Pi with Alpine Linux and Docker containers. The thing really flies! While I try to keep it light I’m sometimes shocked how much stuff I can cram into Docker.
I like to use a host-based Postgres and Unbound from the package manager though; I advertise Unbound as the LAN DNS server to offer encryption.
(Rambling here: On my personal devices though I bypass that resolver and use one hosted on Fly (an Alpine Linux Docker image to be exact) so I can block ads, tracking and all that trash.)
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Raspberry Pi with Alpine Linux and Docker containers. The thing really flies! While I try to keep it light I’m sometimes shocked how much stuff I can cram into Docker.
I like to use a host-based Postgres and Unbound from the package manager though; I advertise Unbound as the LAN DNS server to offer encryption.
(Rambling here: On my personal devices though I bypass that resolver and use one hosted on Fly (an Alpine Linux Docker image to be exact) so I can block ads, tracking and all that trash.)