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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Naernoo on 2025-06-27 12:50:47+00:00.
Hi!
My "home"lab has been growing over the years, and sometimes I think: nobody will ever understand what I’ve set up. It would be nice to document everything. But not in the classic way tech people usually do.
I’m thinking about an interactive website, something like a big graph (similar to illustrations created in draw.io (example)) but with the option to click on the nodes.
Example:
I have 4 servers in 4 different locations in a vSphere cluster, all connected via site-to-site VPN. The servers include redundancy, failover services, automated vm based backups and replication jobs, and many Docker services (Seafile, Vaultwarden, AdGuard, vSphere, Authentik, Bitbucket, Rustdesk, and more).
I’ve also created many custom scripts triggered via cron jobs and plenty of custom system services. At some point, even I start losing track, so I can imagine that if I try to explain to others what I’ve “created”, it will sound cryptic.
Besides plain text-based documentation, I’d love to have an interactive map where I can click on Server #1 VM#1 and see what the purpose of the VM is, which Docker services are running, which cron jobs and systemd services are active, and so on. Everthing with a short description...
Does something like that exist? Ideally, I’d prefer a self-hosted solution :)
