homelab.

I started self-hosting stuff around the time when it became public knowledge that basically all cloud providers and all big software companies scan the stored data and have backdoors for government built-in. I didn't like that, I felt betrayed. I started to focus on FOSS and self-hosting.

Now I have my home server running a bunch of services and storing my data and I have become kinda reliant on it.

Why am I calling it mid-level?

I am not an absolute beginner, I have learned a lot and stuff runs more or less stable.
However, I am also not a professional who can re-deploy their whole infrastructure using Ansible within 2 minutes.

What does mid-level contain?

Fairly locked up system, only accessible via VPN
Services dockerized
Only one low-power home machine (mini pc)
No LDAP - everything has a separate password
family members using it aren't too happy because it's not accessible for them
I need to generate ssh keys whenever there is a new network share

Where is the danger?

I rely on a system that has single points of failure (hardware)
Restoring the system would take 1-2 days - buying a new mini PC, setting up Linux, restoring from backup, getting everything to run again

So where to go from here?

Go "full pro home labber": Multiple machines, Ansible, Logging, Monitoring, Alerting, Self-Healing... would probably need to take a small vacation of locking myself in and setting this up, this is no small task.
Give up and just use full SaaS services
A "more stable" middle ground: IaaS VPS hosting for running those docker services I like (eliminates my fear of hardware issues and easier to restore in case of disaster) + home server reduced to NAS features and maybe even to be replaced by a purchased NAS at some point

So, too much text, looking for advice.

tldr: I have become reliant on my home server but I cannot yet run it professionally enough to have peace of mind. Learn more, go deeper or run for other solutions (e.g. SaaS, IaaS)?

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Fragmented, high-WAF setup (www.reddit.com)

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Migrated my Docker Compose homelab to OpenTofu (old.reddit.com)

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I don't usually post, but thought I'd share.

I rebuilt my homelab with OpenTofu. Now my entire setup, from containers to networking, lives in a Git repo.

The best part is that new services get published automatically. I just set a flag in the code, and it builds the Caddy proxy or Cloudflare tunnel for me. No more manual config editing.

Here's my quick write-up on it: https://yuris.dev/blog/homelab-opentofu

And the code is all public if you want to see how it works: https://github.com/yurisasc/homelab

Hope this is interesting to someone. Happy to answer any questions if you have them. Curious to hear if anyone else has gone down this particular rabbit hole with IaC for their Docker stack.

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I did an diagram (www.reddit.com)

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Which Linux server distro I should install on that 2006 hardware? (infosec.pub)

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I present to you, my homelab (that's probably about to blow up soon) (www.reddit.com)

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Small upgrade from a 3d printed rack (www.reddit.com)

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Kubernetes Cluster works great as a filament dryer (infosec.pub)

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400 watts from ram... check (infosec.pub)

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Government surplus find (infosec.pub)

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