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
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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.
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
Trillium notes
But what about the documentation to host the note server?
I just created a note in Obsidian with the Excalidraw plugin.
I use obsidian and excalidraw also, I didn't realize we can put one in the other