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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does ansible make sense for a single server? I like the concept but I don't know if It makes sense for my purpose.

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It makes sense in terms of reproducibility.

Imagine if your server gets compromised, you accidentally break it, or you just want to move to a cheaper provider or a different server. Do you want to have to tweak it all over again, and fix bugs that you figured out how to fix 6 months ago and you don't remember?

I'd rather have some yaml files that do it for me. And it's a new skill as well.

[–] ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes sense thanks. I did have trouble figuring out where to start with ansible, do you have any advice about that?

[–] mim@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're welcome!

I'm still an ansible newbie myself. I first heard about it in this video; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7p9-m4cimg&pp=ygURV29sZmdhbmcgYW5zaWJsZSA%3D

Then I just figured out by googling and reading the docs / stack exchange.

I started by doing something simple, e.g. write an ansible playbook to update a raspberry pi on my network. Then went from there to launch a small VPS, googling each step that I'd normally do to configure a server, and run them all one after the other on ansible.

[–] ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I love Wolfgang. His videos are so high quality