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I guess, K3s & argocd? Not sure exactly what you're asking
I run k3s and use Argo CD at work, but it always seemed overkill for my home server. I also would want to use self-hosted Forgejo instead of an external service, but I don’t care to spend time on a setup that bootstraps Forgejo, PostgreSQL and Argo CD, then has all of the above managed by Argo CD.
Forgejo, I can't help ya with that one
Even though me and another guy set up Argo at work, I wasn't gonna do it all over again - I pretty much just copied our manifests from work, swapped out the secrets and github urls, and was on the path to success. And the benefits cannot be understated
Whatever you interpret that as since my main goal here is to seed conversation, but the thing that I was thinking of when asking was a web gui with some live stats, doing some simple maintenance stuff, maybe manage or glance at docker/podman status and other services, etc.
Since I've seen some conversations about documenting setups so they can be picked up and troubleshot by someone else unfamiliar with the setup like a family member, I expected it would be common to lower the friction for basic maintenance but seeing the amount of ssh comments makes me think otherwise, maybe more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.
Uh-huh, think of it like jigsaw puzzles...
That said, I prioritize ease of maintenance and simplicity, still wouldn't expect my family to pick it up in any reasonable amount of time, nor have the motivation, more's the pity.
I've moved to podman (quadlet) containers mostly, easy to read and edit, secure (mostly userspace), systemctl integration, autoupdate. I've done my distrohopping, fedora (in my case bazzite immutable) isn't going anywhere, does everything I need. I run fairly lean, but have a bunch of stuff that can be spun up at a whim that I don't use daily. It's entertaining without being a burden, and useful stuff just happens.
Honestly, ssh and btop cover most of my monitoring needs, serious stuff gets a notify-send to my laptop. I've tried the web gui stuff and I don't look at it enough to justify it, I'm not a sysad monitoring hundreds of computers, it's just a hobby.