Ask HN: Please recommend how to manage personal serverss

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  • Vagrant

    Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

    • Take a look at Vagrant! https://www.vagrantup.com/ In my admittedly limited understanding I believe it offers closer to a nix like reproducable rather than repeatable deployments.

  • true_libopenvpn3

    A way to use libopenvpn3 as a true library with your own tun implementation, therefore sending/receiving VPN packets on userspace.

    • this might help with the VPN needs: https://github.com/lattice0/true_libopenvpn3

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • nixos-infect

    [GPLv3+] install nixos over the existing OS in a DigitalOcean droplet (and others with minor modifications)

    • There is one solution I've seen being used to solve this issue.

    It is to overwrite the current Linux OS with the one you want. I came across this idea here [0]. I researched and got Alpine Linux running on Hetzner (even they don't support custom images) using a similar method [1].

    This seems to be the guide to do the same with Arch Linux [2], I'm not sure though.

    Once you do create a successful Arch image on OVH, take a snapshot of the machine before installing anything else, in case you want to start from a fresh Arch image in the future.

    [0] https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect

    [1] https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Replacing_non-Alpine_Linux...

    [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_from_exi...

  • chenglab

    what it feels like to run nixos-rebuild:

    • Late to the party but this is my configuration that I use for my home servers:

    https://github.com/eh8/chenglab

    I was a complete Nix beginner three months ago and thought Nix was terribly complicated and unnecessary. Glad to say I was wholly wrong and the transition was not that bad.

    NixOS me provision my servers from scratch to functional file/media/home automation server in about 15 minutes using an entirely automated Nix installation process. It’s a beautiful OS for servers

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