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"Ultimate" guide for literal beginners
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well what do you want to do?
i found that using alpine linux made things a lot clearer. i'm not a newbie but i gut ovurwhelmed by comylicated setups, and alpine is as simple as can be. just scripts that start and stop services, and configuration in /etc/
<service-name>. where it started getting complex was with exposing services to the internet.I’m not looking to expose anything to the internet yet at least. From the little I researched, there seems to be a million things that can go wrong and very few that can go right.
What I’d ideally want is to be able to run a couple of simultaneous Jellyfin streams, backup photos (Immich/ente/etc) and possibly a “local cloud” like Nextcloud just to try it out without having to worry about any kind of hacking. If there are any good self hosted apps for like groceries and stuff, that would be pretty sweet too. They don’t have to sync immediately, just when someone is on the home network.
What will hell you in that journey: basic understanding of Linux cli (Debian is good choice), docker and docker compose (make sure you understand the concepts of images, containers, networks and volumes) and of one kind of web server (I'd recommend Caddy because it's rather simple). After that you basically use the often officially provided docker compose files to setup common self hostable services.
right, and what's tripping you up? you've set up jellyfin, but other services are not cooperating?