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How do you document your Homelab? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by MIXEDUNIVERS@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello, how do you document your home lab? Whether it's a small server or a big one with firewall and more nodes. I have a small pc with Proxmox and there I have a VM with OpnSense. After I've entered my VPN as a interface in OpenSense, I noticed that I slowly lose the overview with the different rules that I have built in my firewall. And I know that my setup is relatively easy in comparison to others here in this community. I want to have a quick Overview at the various VMs, like the Lxc container, Docker containers that I have in this and the IP addresses that I have assigned to them. I search for a simple an intuitiv way for beginners.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I build my infrastructure with the terraform, Ansible and helm charts. The code is it's own documentation as well as comments in that code explaining why I've done things if it's not obvious.

[–] ch8zer@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

This really is the way.

It goes beyond documentation too - it allows me to migrate to new hosts or to easily automate upgrading the OS release version.

I have a docusaurus site for my homeland and I have ansible and terraform generate files for the docs so I don’t have to record anything. Some of the stuff I note down:

DNS leases
General infra diagrams
IP info
Host info