bjornsno

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Help with deployment

Hello nerds! I'm hosting a lot of things on my home lab using docker compose. I have a private repo in GitHub for the config files. This is working fine for me, but every time I want to make a change I have to push the changes, then ssh to the lab, pull the changes, and run docker compose up. This is of course working fine, but...

bjornsno OP ,

I'd be a bit concerned with having the git repo also be hosted on the machine itself. If the drives break it's all gone. I could of course have two remotes but then pushing changes still becomes a multi step procedure.

bjornsno OP ,

That would fill the same role as watchtower I guess? I've previously tried to have a look at having portainer manage the docker compose stack that it's running inside but at least back then it seemed to be a dead end and not really what portainer is meant to do. I'm not interested in moving away from docker compose at this time.

bjornsno OP ,

I do have nightly off-site backups, that's true. Still, having the git repo be on the same machine doesn't seem right to me.

bjornsno ,

You should definitely figure out some infra as code system now while it's manageable. Normally I'd recommend docker-compose as it's very easy to learn and has a huge ecosystem, but since you're using proxmox you might need to look at ansible like the other commenter said. Having IaC with git makes it so much easier to test new stuff, roll changes back, and all that good stuff, in addition to solving your original problem of forgetting what is running where.

Just find the simplest IaC solution possible. Unless you are gunning for a job in infrastructure you don't need to go into kubernetes or terraform or anything like that, you just need something reproducible that you can easily understand and modify.

bjornsno ,

Oh for sure for sure. I just know that a lot of people use their homelab to learn skills that they can put on their resume when looking for a job. It's totally fair to over engineer your self hosting setup if that's your goal.

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