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What do you use to document your home lab? (lemmy.procrastinati.org)
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My home lab has a mild amount of complexity and I'd like practice some good habits about documenting it. Stuff like, what each system does, the OS, any notable software installed and, most importantly, any documentation around configuration or troubleshooting.

i.e. I have an internal SMTP relay that uses a letsencrypt SSL cert that I need to use the DNS challenge to renew. I've got the steps around that sitting in a Google Doc. I've got a couple more google docs like that.

I don't want to get super complicated but I'd like something a bit more structured than a folder full of google docs. I'd also like to pull it in-house.

Thanks

Edit: I appreciate all the feedback I've gotten on this post so far. There have been a lot of tools suggested and some great discussion about methods. This will probably be my weekend now.

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[-] dr_robot@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I deploy as much as I possibly can via Ansible. Then the Ansible code serves as the documentation. I also keep the underlying OS the same on all machines to avoid different OS conventions. All my machines run Debian. The few things I cannot express in Ansible, such as network topology, I draw a diagram for in draw.io, but that's it.

Also, why not automate the certificate renewal with certbot? I have two reverse proxies and they renew their certificates themselves.

[-] ttk@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[-] Janis@feddit.de -4 points 1 year ago

psssst. ansible is red hat.

red hat bad.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 1 year ago

What alternative to you suggest?

[-] Janis@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

i m all good with selfhosted wiki

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 1 points 1 year ago

I meant to replace Ansible automation. Pointing out it's RH is all well and good, but what's the alternative?

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