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From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

  1. What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
  2. What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
  3. What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Not needing Kubernetes is a broad statement. It allows for better management of storage and literally gives you a configurable reverse-proxy configured with YAML if you know what you're doing.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yes, but you don't need Kubernetes from the start.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well I guess podman works fine for the first few months. Interestingly I still use build-ah heavily for building my custom images

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I find a lot of stuff is using docker compose, which works with Podman, but using straight docker is easier, especially if it's nothing web-facing

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Funnily enough Docker compose has never worked for me on Podman. There always seems to be something that is incompatible (also due to me running on Debian). However, I feel like it should become a standard amongst homelabbers and professionals to use Kubernetes manifests going forward, since it is the most portable.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Heavy disagree on the storage statement from what I've used and seen but it works for lots of people so not going to detract. NFS is always a pain but longhorn seems to have advantages

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    NFS is a pain, no question about it. I used to use longhorn but these days since I'm doing a single node k3s I'm just doing hostpath. It's that PVCs make intuitive sense to me, but I guess podman will likely work just fine for such cases other than canary deployments and OOTB service-meshes

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