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Hello, how do you document your home lab? Whether it's a small server or a big one with firewall and more nodes. I have a small pc with Proxmox and there I have a VM with OpnSense. After I've entered my VPN as a interface in OpenSense, I noticed that I slowly lose the overview with the different rules that I have built in my firewall. And I know that my setup is relatively easy in comparison to others here in this community. I want to have a quick Overview at the various VMs, like the Lxc container, Docker containers that I have in this and the IP addresses that I have assigned to them. I search for a simple an intuitiv way for beginners.

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[–] dabe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

95% of my homelab lives on a single server, and everything I do is within containers. So, my documentation is just keeping all my compose files in a git repo and writing in comments when necessary. It’s fairly self-documenting, and I haven’t found the need to break out of just using containers for everything, besides a couple things like setting up mergerfs or cockpit, but that’s all plug and play nowadays with stuff like https://projectucore.io/

Of course, I don’t have any other things set up in my physical layout or network stack… but all that stuff would probably just go into an entry in my notes (obsidian/wiki.vim).

I am fortunate enough to only manage a homelab and not an enterprise sized network. So I don't document anything just like at work.

[–] justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, I do keep some harder to remember stuff written down in a README.md in my repo, but mainly most things are undocumented

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

"Shit, i hope i remeber the key words i searched for"

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I download the YouTube tutorials I followed, upload them to my UAT Jellyfin server, and then when my server is having issues I can't get to the videos!

A flawless system really

[–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Now firs of all sorry for necroposting, but i found this while searching. I use claude amd markdown/yaml and serena mcp. We use tmux and shard browser to gather facts. As a bonus i can explain my setup and choices and it will format out nicely

I don't, and I know that I'm fucked one day.

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

But what about the documentation to host the note server?

[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just created a note in Obsidian with the Excalidraw plugin.

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use obsidian and excalidraw also, I didn't realize we can put one in the other