Home-ops Alternatives

home-ops reviews and mentions

• Self-Hosting like it's 2025
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2025

  K3s installs super fast.

  Writing your first yaml or two is scary & seems intimidating at first .

  But after that, everything is cut from the same cloth. Its an escape from the long dark age of every sysadmin forever cooking up whatever whimsy sort of served them at the time, escape from each service having very different management practices around it.

  And there's no other community anywhere like Kubernetes. Unbelievably many very good quality very smart helm charts out there, such as https://github.com/bitnami/charts just ready to go. Really sweet home-ops setups like https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops that show that once you have a platform under foot, adding more services is really easy, showing an amazing range of home-ops things you might be interested in.

  > Last thing I need is Kubernetes at home

  Last thing we need is incredibly shitty attitude. Fuck around and find out is the hacker spirit. Its actually not hard if you try, and actually having a base platform where things follow common patterns & practices & you can reuse existing skills & services is kind of great. Everything is amazing but the snivelling shitty whining without even making the tiniest little case will surely continue. Low signal people will remain low signal, best avoid.

• Day006 - Random posts under TIL
  3 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2024

  If you want to explore more about k8s and would like to setup at your home, these 2 repos are the good resource. Wife approved HomeOps driven by Kubernetes and GitOps using Flux - onedr0p/home-ops Husband-approved geeked homelab k8s cluster deployed on 🍏 Mac Minis with Talos Linux; automated via Flux, Renovate and GitHub Actions 🤖 - buroa/k8s-gitops

• Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2024

  Evaluating these decisions one by one doesn't make sense. Yes, if you are looking at just the cost of setting up Vaultwarden, there's a significant amount of stuff to learn & practice to keep it up.

  But self-hosting scales horizontally. If you already run one service that uses postgres or MySQL, the next service often won't add much of a burden.

  For a lot of people, yeah, at present it makes no sense to get started. But the ability to get inertia, to carry the effort, can grow and grow into something really fierce. And even better, there are such good references & starting places out there today. Onedr0p's home-ops is a beautiful example (one among many) of investing hard on really good tools up front, so that the incrental cost of adding and managing new things is fantastically low. Years ago we would have to diy much of this, but today onedr0p can use well known community tools like Kubernetes, Flux ci/CD, gitops, and helm to get it done, to have other smart making the tools of self-hosting better for him. He's still the self hosting, but there's a sizable % of the engineering talent of the world helping to make his self hosting better & easier. That's pretty novel, and pretty excellent imo. https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops

• Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 May 2024
• Ditching PaaS: Why I Went Back to Self-Hosting
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2024

  These are great operational wins. Agreed very much that having autonomic (can fix itself) systems at your back is a massive game changer. De-crustifies the act of running things.

  The other win is that there's a substantial cultural base to this way to go. Folks have been doing selfhosting for ages, but everyone has their own boutique setup some their way. A couple tools and techniques could be shared, but mostly everyone took blank slate configs & built their own system up, & added their own monitoring & operational scripts.

  https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops is a set of helm scripts and other tools that is widely widely used, and there's a lot more like it. It's a huge build out, using convention and a common platform to enable portable knowledge & sharing.

  Self hosting did not have intellectual scale out at it's back, before Kubernetes came along. Docker and ansible and others have been around, but theres never been remotely the success there has been today in empowering users to setup & run complex services.

  We really have clawed out of the server-hugging jungle &started building some villages. It's wonderful to see.

• Homelab setup for Kubernetes training
  1 project | /r/homelab | 27 Nov 2023

  Going thru this repo https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops

• Selfhosted k8s for home server?
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 May 2023
• My recently deployed media apps in ArgoCD, migrating from Terraform.
  7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Mar 2023

  Take a look at my open source GitOps repo managed by Flux here: https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops

• How do You manage Your docker containers configuration?
  1 project | /r/homelab | 18 Mar 2023
• Self Hosted SaaS Alternatives
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2023

  Im fully onboard with the geneneral idea as a target.

  Right now it's for early early adopters. Hosting stuff is still a painm But we are getting better at hosting stuff, finding stable patterns, paving the path. Hint, it's not doing less, it's not simpler options: it's adopting & making our own industrial scale tooling. https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops is a great early & still strong demonstration; the up front cost od learning is high, but there's the biggest ecosystem of support you can imagine, and once you recognize the patterns, you can get into flow states, make stuff happen, with extreme leverage far beyond where humanity has ever been. Building the empowered individual is happening, and we're using stable good patterns that will mean the individual isnt so off on their own doing ops- they'll have a lot more accrued human experiene at their back, their running of services isnt as simple to understand from the start but goes much much further, is much more mature & well supported in the long run.

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