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How's your stuff doing? Unplanned interruptions or achieving uptime records?

I'm currently sailing rather smooth. Most of my stuff is migrated to Komodo, there will stay some exceptions and I only have to migrate Lemmy itself I think. Of course that's when I found a potential replacement but I'll let it sit for a while before touching it again. Enjoying the occasional Merge Request notification from the Renovate Bot and knowing my stuff is mostly up to date.

I'm thinking about setting up some kind of Wiki for my other niche hobby (Netrunner LCG) lore as there's a fandom one that most people avoid touching and updating but since I likely won't have time to start writing some articles on my own as a kickoff I'm hesitant. Also not sure which wiki I'd choose as well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/344011

Found in this reddit post. The lacking encryption in Komodo is something I miss and I'm not satisfied with how to handle .env files plus it's really big for what it's doing. Of course I discover this the day after migrating one of the last stacks to Komodo but I'm tempted to give this a try at some point.

Full Quote from the reddit post:

Hey all, I just felt like making a post about a project that I feel like is the most important and genuinely game changing pieces of software I've seen for any homelab. It's called Doco-CD.

I know that's high praise. I'm not affiliated with the project in any way, but I really want to get the word out.

Doco-CD is a docker management system like Portainer and Komodo but is WAY lighter, much more flexible, and Git focused. The main features that stand out to me:

• Native encryption/decryption via SOPS and Age

• Docker Swarm support

• And runs under a single, tiny, rootless Go based container.

I would imagine many here have used Kubernetes, and Git-Ops tools like FluxCD or ArgoCD and enjoyed the automation aspect of it, but grown to dislike Kubernetes for simple container deployments. Git Ops on Docker has been WAY overshadowed. Portainer puts features behind paid licenses, Komodo does much better in my opinion, but to get native decryption to work it's pretty hacky, has zero Docker Swarm support (and removed a release for it's roadmap), and is a heavier deployment that requires a separate database.

Doco-CD is the closest thing we have to a true Git Ops tool for Docker, and I just came across it last week. And beforehand I've desperately wanted a tool such as this. I've since deployed a ton of stuff with it and is the tool I will be managing the rest of my services with.

It seems to be primarily developed by one guy. Which is in part why I want to share the project. Yet, he's been VERY responsive. Just a few days ago, bind mounts weren't working correctly in Docker Swarm, I made an issue on Github and within hours he had a new version to release fixing the problem.

If anyone has been desperately wanting a Docker Git Ops tool that really does compete with feature parity with other Kubernetes based Git Ops tools. This is the best one out there.

I think for some the only potential con is it has no UI. (Like FluxCD) Yet, in some ways that can be seen as a pro.

Go check it out.

What's happening on your servers? Any interesting news things you tried?

I didn't do anyone other than updating Mastodon (native deployment) lately due to a lack of time. Reading so much about Immich caused me to consider trying it in parallel to Nextcloud but I'm not sure if I want to have everything twice.

Not quite homelab, but I'm about to install Linux Mint on my mom's laptop and that had me thinking about creating an off-site backup in her place again since she has a fiber connection. I'm still not sure about the potential design though, but currently my only backup is in the same rack as the live stuff.

With the recent discussions around replacing Spotify with selfhosted services and the possibilities to obtain the music itself, I've been finally setting up Navidrome. I had to do quite a bit of reorganization to do with my existing collection (beets helping a ton) but now it's in a neatly organized structure and I'm enjoying it everywhere. I get most of my stuff from Bandcamp but I have a big catalog from when I've still had a large physical collection.

I'm also still working on my docker quasi gitops stack. I've cleaned up my compose files and put the secrets in env files where I hadn't already, checked them into my new forgejo instance and (mostly) configured renovate. Komodo is about to get productive but I couldn't find the time yet. Also I need to figure out how to check in secrets in a secure way. I know some but I haven't tried those with Komodo yet. This close of my fully automated update-on-merge compose stacks!

I've also been doing these for quite a while and decided to sometimes post them in !selfhosting@slrpnk.net to possibly help moving a bit from the biggest Lemmy instance, even though this community as it is is perfectly fine as well as it seems.

What's going on on your servers? Anything you are trying to pursue at the moment?

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/225475

If I understand it right, it's comparable to Prometheus with Grafana in what it does.

geteilt von: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/203881

I'm about to set up a new git forge for my own stuff. Most forges already have the basic functionality I want (nice ui for merge requests etc).

What I'm looking forward to is federation. Create a Pull request for a repository hosted on another instance without needing to create an account over there would be a game changer.

• Gitea had some plans but I don't see anything happening since three years in their dedicated forum
• Gitlab has a dedicated epic but some official said it's not a priority last year
• Forgejo has a roadmap and a Federation section in each of their montly reports (latest). However, the roadmaps mentions that Federated PRs are in the far future.

From this it seems that Forgejo is the only one activetly working on Federation.

Anything I'm missing? Anyone involved in any of those willing to tell me more? Especially if all of them are working in a similar direction where not only decentralization but also federation (e.g. between Gitlab and Forgejo) is possible?

On a side note, I found the ForgeFed project which is an ActivityPub extension, not sure if any of the forges wants to implement this. Their example forge Vervis is not reachable.