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Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps (reddthat.com)
submitted 5 months ago by mrnobody@reddthat.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Anyone else just sick of trying to follow guides that cover 95% of the process, or maybe slightly miss a step and then spend hours troubleshooting setups just to get it to work?

I think I just have too much going in my "lab" the point that when something breaks (and my wife and/or kids complain) it's more of a hassle to try and remember how to fix or troubleshoot stuff. I lightly document myself cuz I feel like I can remember well enough. But then it's a style to find the time to fix, or stuff is tested and 80%completed but never fully used because life is busy and I don't have loads of free time to pour into this stuff anymore. I hate giving all that data to big tech, but I also hate trying to manage 15 different containers or VMs, or other services. Some stuff is fine/easy or requires little effort, but others just don't seem worth it.

I miss GUIs with stuff where I could fumble through settings to fix it as is easier for me to look through all that vs read a bunch of commands.

Idk, do you get lab burnout? Maybe cuz I do IT for work too it just feels like it's never ending...

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[โ€“] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's neat. I never gave ansible playbooks any thought because I thought it would just add a layer of abstraction and that containers couldn't be easier but reading your post I think I have been wrong.

[โ€“] Dylancyclone@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

While it is true that Ansible is a different tool that you need to learn the basics of (if you want to edit/add applications), all of the docker stuff is pretty comparable. For example, this is the equivalent of a docker compose file for SilverBullet (note taking app): https://github.com/Dylancyclone/ansible-homelab-orchestration/blob/main/roles/silverbullet/tasks/main.yml

You can see it's volumes, environment variables, ports, labels, etc just like a regular docker compose (just in a slightly different format, like environment variables are listed as env instead of environment), but the most important thing is that everything is filled in with variables. So for SilverBullet, any of these variables can be overwritten, and you'd never have to look at/tweak the "docker compose." Then, if any issue is found in the playbook, anyone can pull in the changes and get the fix without any work from themselves, and if manual intervention is needed (like an app updated and now requires a new key or something), the playbook can let you know to avoid breaking something: https://dylancyclone.github.io/ansible-homelab-orchestration/guides/updating/#handling-breaking-changes