helm-charts VS paperless-ngx

Honestly, just use the bjw-s app-template for it. It's not complex enough to warrant a from-scratch chart.

I just spoke with one of the k8s-at-home guys, and he hadn't heard of Helmet either, but he recommended this: https://github.com/bjw-s/helm-charts which has a bit more miles on it, formerly it was published as: https://github.com/k8s-at-home/library-charts – this is in thousands of charts, from what I can tell.

What about your charts being a 1:1 copy of Bernd Schorgers' app-template, formerly kah-common?

Spinning up workloads in kubernetes is much different than just spinning up a container in docker or even with docker compose. If someone has not already packaged it in a helm chart or some other kubernetes workload you'll have to develop one yourself. There are some nice library charts you can use as a base that should handle just about any random docker image you want to deploy. https://github.com/bjw-s/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/library/common there is also a repo of pre developed charts for common images. https://github.com/k8s-at-home/charts but be aware it was recently deprecated so it won't be receiving any updates.

I'm using this chart - it's a swiss army tool for any self-hosted docker containers lacking own helm files.

It seems to have some overlap with a similar library that has been developed over at the k8s-at-home community and later migrated to my personal repo: https://github.com/bjw-s/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/library/common (shameless plug :P).

It very much depends on how you structure and setup your applications. We always try to use Helm charts which means within each environment you have your Helm values and some generic stuff. In some cases we created kinda a blueprint chart which was generic enough to configure whatever we needed. A good example of that could be https://github.com/bjw-s/helm-charts. This keeps the „copy-pasting“ relatively organized and low effort.

I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them.

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can find your physical documents easier. With features such as tags, full text search, multi-user permissions system, this is a dream for those who like to keep an organized folder of files and documents.

Since last year I’ve been configuring and maintaining my homelab setup and it is just amazing.

I’ve learned so much about containers, virtual machines and networking. Some of the self hosted applications like paperless-ngx [1] and immich [2] are much superior in terms of features than the proprietary cloud solutions.

With the addition of VPN services like tailscale [3] now I can access my homelab from anywhere in the world.

The only thing missing is to setup a low powered machine like NUC or any mini PC so I can offload the services I need 24/7 and save electricity costs.

If you can maintain it and have enough energy on weekends to perform routine maintenance and upgrades. I would 100% recommend setting up your own homelab.

[1] https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

This has been posted a few times already, but I cannot tell you how life changing Paperless NGX is for organizing PDFs. As someone who wrangles all of the insurance and bills for my house, this open source software is so damn good.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

I maintain Bash script to quickly set it up locally on Linux with Podman. Give it a spin if you want to kick the tires.

https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx

Personally, I use https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to archive all my emails and then only keep them on the remote server for as long as I need to (basically until I read them and respond or download an attachment into https://docs.paperless-ngx.com )