Home server for me is mostly Ansible for provisioning and systemd for everything else. The trick is keeping it simple enough that you can recover from a broken state without Google. For daily tasks I reach for bare metal SSH or a web interface if it needs to be friendly. K8s is great but I found myself overcomplicating things until I stepped back and remembered: I already know how to SSH into a box.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.
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