My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated

• homelab

  53 7,717 8.9 Python

  Modern self-hosting framework, fully automated from empty disk to operating services with a single command.

Awesome!

I was thinking more about the user-facing apps you use. Scanning https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab, Gitea is Go, Grafana is Javascript (approximately), Element is Javascript, Dendrite is Go, Vault is Go. K8s itself is Go. Are you planning to run your own email server?

Now I find myself wondering what app choices exist if one were to try to constrain oneself entirely to operating in the Go eco-system, with Javascript only for web clients. That would be quite parsimonious.

• Netmaker

  165 8,952 9.6 Go

  Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

  

I just stumbled on a truly self hosted project similar to tailscale: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker. There is also https://github.com/juanfont/headscale which is an open sourced implementation of the Tailscale coordination server. Tailscale makes things incredibly easy for personal use, but it's awesome that there are also similar self-hosted options out there

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• headscale

  221 19,446 9.2 Go

  An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

I just stumbled on a truly self hosted project similar to tailscale: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker. There is also https://github.com/juanfont/headscale which is an open sourced implementation of the Tailscale coordination server. Tailscale makes things incredibly easy for personal use, but it's awesome that there are also similar self-hosted options out there

• nas

  1 27 2.6 Nix

  configuration for my NAS

This is how I currently manage my RPi NAS: https://github.com/smasher164/nas.

Exposing Home Assistant over it allows me to do things like turn my lights off when I'm away from home, without exposing stuff to the public internet.

• kubevirt

  50 5,068 10.0 Go

  Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

  

> Or just a total DIY xen or KVM hypervisor on debian or centos approach.

Or just install kubevirt on the existing cluster and manage kvm virtual machines with k8s

https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt

• Sandstorm

  51 6,636 5.4 JavaScript

  Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

  

I still believe :) I'm looking not for an economic argument but for a strategic one. I think[1] a self-hosted setup with minimal dependencies can be more resilient than a conventional one, whether with a vendor or self-hosted.

https://sandstorm.io got a lot right. I wish they'd paid more attention to upgrade burdens.

[1] https://github.com/akkartik/mu

• mu

  29 1,343 4.3 Assembly

  Soul of a tiny new machine. More thorough tests → More comprehensible and rewrite-friendly software → More resilient society. (by akkartik)

I still believe :) I'm looking not for an economic argument but for a strategic one. I think[1] a self-hosted setup with minimal dependencies can be more resilient than a conventional one, whether with a vendor or self-hosted.

https://sandstorm.io got a lot right. I wish they'd paid more attention to upgrade burdens.

[1] https://github.com/akkartik/mu

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• debug-toolkit

  24 56 2.8 Python

  A modern code-injection framework for Python. Like Pyrasite but Kubernetes-aware.

  

To everyone saying that Kubernetes is unnecessary, try implementing autoscaling, service discovery, secrets management, and autohealing in a vendor independent way without it.

Of course none of that is necessary for a self hosted home lab, but neither is gitops.

This is a very nice example of how to set stuff up properly.

OP, I would love to see Robusta (https://robusta.dev) as part of this too. It's definitely in line with your vision of automating everything, as it let's you automate the response to alerts and other events in your cluster. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers)

• system-upgrade-controller

  5 635 6.9 Go

  In your Kubernetes, upgrading your nodes

  

I'm currently bumping the versions manually, but I plan to automate that with system upgrade controller [1] and Dependabot [2] (or similar)

[1]: https://github.com/rancher/system-upgrade-controller

[2]: https://github.com/dependabot

• yunohost

  117 1,911 9.5 Python

  YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

  

> There are 19 stacks in this repository. 19 pieces of software that require their own maintenance, JUST TO RUN YOUR APPLICATIONS!

There's tools like Yunohost [0] that can save a lot of work and are focused on making the subsequent maintenance burden easier too. There's an application catalogue [1] with a lot of popular self-hosted apps to choose from and new ones being packaged all the time. I haven't used it myself yet, but hear very good experiences from people that have. Especially those that lack all the more sysadmin tech skills.

There's also Freedombox [2]. I'd be interested to know about other such tools and your experience with them.

[0] https://yunohost.org

[1] https://yunohost.org/en/apps

[2] https://freedombox.org/

• zfs-localpv

  12 370 7.6 Go

  Dynamically provision Stateful Persistent Node-Local Volumes & Filesystems for Kubernetes that is integrated with a backend ZFS data storage stack.

  

What do you use to provision Kubernetes persistent volumes on bare metal? I’m looking at open-ebs (https://openebs.io/).

Also, when you bump the image tag in a git commit for a given helm chart, how does that get deployed? Is it automatic, or do you manually run helm upgrade commands?

Suggest a related project