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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/bambibol on 2025-07-31 09:15:13+00:00.
Hey everyone.
After using my NAS as storage for many years, running Plex and (painstakingly, in hindsight) adding media by hand, I finally dove into the deep end of selfhosting earlier this year and i'm LOVING it. I started with the r/MediaStack stuff that seemed interested to me, then started looking at all sorts of apps that could be relevant to me from Firefly III to HomeAssistant. Still the tip of the iceberg I'm guessing.
Anyway, my question is the following: How do you all keep track of the setups you're running? I don't mean is it running and properly (with tools like Uptime Kuma or Portainer), but more in the sense of what did you do when installing this? how did i set up this one?
For example, when one of my mediastack containers needs a restart I need to do a restart of the whole stack in order to get the -arrs running through Gluetun; and when an auto-import on Firefly III didn't work I can do XYZ to do a manual one. Small things or quirks you gotta remember that might be unique for your personal setup even.
Most of these are currently are fresh in my head but the more stuff I install, the more I gotta remember; and at some point I might be busy with other stuff and not have time to keep to my homelab as much as I do now.
So, how do you all keep track of this info about your own homelab?
And what are the things that I definitely gotta document? At the moment it's a messy text file with stuff like "run Kometa for movies with command: docker exec -it kometa python3 kometa.py --config /config/config.yml --library "Movies" but in all honesty, looking at that now, i'm already wondering like wait wouldn't I have to cd into a specific folder to run this? ๐ So yeah...
Is there a nice tool for this, or does anyone have tips/tricks for me?