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What do you use to document your home lab?
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What is it that you all are documenting? I'm just getting started and have so far just set up docker and several containers (Plex, the *arrs, qbittorrent, gluetun) and not sure if I should be writing something down?
I document my proxmox configuration, and again for each service running on it; ports, fqdn, let’s encrypt etc. Any problems or deviations from the standard installation and how I resolved it. How I mounted my media drive and and made it accessible in Plex and Jellyfin. Any configuration that I had to search for the solution, including the actual steps and not just links that might be gone in the future. The more services you accumulate the harder it is to start the documentation, so it’s a good idea to start sooner than later.
I'd like to document what I have, and what I need to do it spin it back up with minimal effort should I need to. Esp, anything that's unique to my setup or that I did to work around a problem. I've shot myself in the foot many a time where I go back to something 6 months later and I've long since forgotten what I did. So, if it's not commented in a config I'm figuring it out all over again.