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  • Nextcloud + OnlyOffice
  • *arr media management series (Lidarr, Sonarr, etc)
  • Gitea
  • Vaultwarden
  • PiHole
  • Jellyfin
  • Wiki-js
  • Lemmy
  • Prometheus/Grafana/Loki

Currently all containerised running on a debian VM on a Rockylinux Qemu/KVM hypervisor. Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷

Hardware is an circa 2012 gaming machine with a few ZFS raids for all of my Linux ISOs. It lives an extremely tortured existence and longs for the sweet release of death.

Toying with the idea of migrating it all to on-prem virtualised kubernetes cluster using helm charts to manage the stacks and using NFS mounts for persistent storage because I hate myself (and to upskill I guess)

What about you?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jellyfin, Shinobi, and more recently NextCloud. Looking into Home Assistant and Paperless.

Shinobi's on a Pi4 and the Jellyfin/NC are on a mini PC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Had never heard of Shinobi, looks interesting - are you using the ~~bear+elephant~~ tensorflow object detection?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nextcloud, Jellyfin, my own personal photography website, and a Valheim server, all done via docker-compose because I haven't spent the time to learn other container tech yet. I've been hearing a lot about podman, what are the benefits over docker for you?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mailcow for selfhosted email.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

File sharing / storage via SSH, Minecraft server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Everything is running on a Synology NAS. Media lives on a 16TB raid array of HDD, and the containers themselves on a RAID 1 of two NVMe SSDs. This helps with spinning down the HDD when not in use and overall power consumption is very reasonable.

On the host:

  • Tailscale to connect remotely
  • Synology Photo as a great photo library

Then everything in Docker containers, deployed via compose stacks from Git and Portainer, very easy to update! Also using Watchtower to automatically updates containers that are using the “latest” tag.

  • arr stack. With notably Recyclarr that allows to sync from TrashGuides the recommended media quality profiles
  • Jellyfin
  • Miniflux for RSS. Recently switched from Feedly… it’s so much better. Allows full text extraction when the feed isn’t.
  • Calibre + Calibre Web for the interface, ebooks management
  • Home Assistant + Zigbee2mqtt for home automation
  • Nginx proxy manager to reverse proxy a handful of services (those with shared logins, e.g. Jellyfin…)
  • Paperless-Ngx for documents management
  • Change detection for websites monitoring (e.g. price changes…)
  • Flame for a simple “dashboard” with all these links
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

At home I have a Dell Power edge tower running Yunohost. The apps on there are Nextcloud, Navidrome, Gotify and HomeAssistant. It reaches the internet via tunnel to a wireguard server on an Ubuntu vps. I also have another vps which hosts Jellyfin, qbittorrent and the *arrs. I set that up using swizzin community edition on Ubuntu.

That media setup took a long time and many iterations to get working smooth. I tried a few docker-based setups early on, but none of them were simple enough for me to understand. For the home server, I've never had a reason to look for alternatives. Yunohost is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So far, a small amount. I just upgraded to my busted RPi to a refurb Optiplex 9020 and got brave enough to finally try out Docker 😂

  • Calibre
  • Portainer
  • Home Assistant (a work in progress, having networking issues since that’s where I lack know how)
  • Libreddit
  • Jellyfin (to replace Plex)

I’ve got it on Tailscale along with my Synology NAS and the rest of my machines.

Love this community for all the ideas and guidance I get looking at other setups!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin, handmade image and video scraper, Firefly, Minecraft, Minetest, Factorio, and a handmade image/video browsing/tagging web app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

osTicket, Radarr, Sonarr, Bazarr, Plex, SABnzbd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the webpage you see in the pic is flame (also hosted)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a noob breakdown somewhere of what each of those are?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • vaultwarden
  • gitlab
  • Piped/Hyperpipe
  • SearXNG
  • Umami
  • Uptime Kuma
  • ntfy
  • Mastodon
  • Nextcloud
  • RSSHub
  • Nitter
  • Lingva
  • Thelounge
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • *arr apps
  • home assistant
  • invidious
  • libreddit
  • jellyfin
  • navidrome
  • pinhole
  • dozzle

I need to get on paperless ngx still.. Partner's trying out grocy too but it's not part of the club yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷

Can you clarify some of the things you got stuck on with podman? I currently have a docker-compose based setup that I'm pretty happy with, but am rebuilding and am planning to experiment with podman play with k8s-style manifests as an alternative to compose. It's still not clear to me whether podman is going to simplify my life or make it worse compared to docker and compose, and I'm curious about your insights and why you backed off from that architecture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Basically I ran into issues with building images from newer and more complex compose files that podman-compose just couldn't pull apart.

Docker is still the go-to if you want shit to 'just work', it has an easier user experience, it's what the vast majority of developers building containers are using. You can run rootless if you want without too much pain.

It has come a long way but the probability that you'll run into some random edge case or other issue with podman is higher, podman-compose has some thorns (high likelihood you'll need to hack on compose files), if you want containers to start without your interaction you have to bake up systemd unit files for them, etc. I've not messed with podman-kube-play - wasn't even aware of it, so can't really comment as to how well that works.

There's nothing to lose by giving it a go except your sanity and time. 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the insights. I'll see how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • PiHole
  • Mealie
  • Duplicati
  • Treafik
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Bookstack

All running on a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. Also currently running Plex on a separate Rasperry Pi with a external SSD, but looking into getting a Synology NAS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

One thing I've not been able to find, unfortunately, is a good replacement for subsonic for my 1.5TB mp3 and FLAC collection.

Everything I've tried to host dockerized has just crawled.

But other than that, hosting mostly for nyswlf..

The typical arrs, subsonic, spotweb, pinhole, duckdns, caliber, calibre web, qbittorrent via a dockerized vpn client

All containerized

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷

As someone who's used Podman for a while, though possibly not as extensively as you, what was it you hit that needed Docker? So far I've gotten everything to work with Podman, though sometimes I've had to RTFM and specify some extra command line parameters.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
  • nginx for public sites
  • wireguard
  • linkding
  • miniflux
  • restic
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Home Assistant (with Zigbee2MQTT)

Plex

Nextcloud

Bookstack

Paperless-ngx

CalibreWeb

Home box

Mealie

FreshRSS

Uptime Kuma

Healthchecks (used with borgbackup to keep track of whether my backups are working)

Grafana

Plus a bunch of other Apps I've forgotten about and a lot of the *arrs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only PiHole and Nextcloud

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Uhhhhh, I would need to shell into my host and check what isn't running...

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