Ssh, dockhand, beszel. They have nice GUI and setting up notification providers is easy. I am using ntfy, so if my CPU is peaking at 90% for a while, or I if any of the containers become unhealthy I get notification to my phone.
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For system and docker stats I can only recommend beszel. Portainer for docker management and anything else ssh.
SSH and Ansible using SSH
NixOS and SSH I guess?
Cockpit is nice for that. The Podman integration of it is also useful.
ssh
ssh and portainer.
- Proxmox GUI for restarting hosts or vms
- Komodo for restarting containers
- Forgejo for configuring and updating containers (deployed by komodo)
- Ansible for OS updates
- Prometheus + Grafana for monitoring
Those for basic stuff, ssh for everything else.
Ansible or ssh
Exactly this! Oh, and gatus for the nice view (mostly own php talking to gatus api)
I guess, K3s & argocd? Not sure exactly what you're asking
Whatever you interpret that as since my main goal here is to seed conversation, but the thing that I was thinking of when asking was a web gui with some live stats, doing some simple maintenance stuff, maybe manage or glance at docker/podman status and other services, etc.
Since I've seen some conversations about documenting setups so they can be picked up and troubleshot by someone else unfamiliar with the setup like a family member, I expected it would be common to lower the friction for basic maintenance but seeing the amount of ssh comments makes me think otherwise, maybe more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.
more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.
Uh-huh, think of it like jigsaw puzzles...
That said, I prioritize ease of maintenance and simplicity, still wouldn't expect my family to pick it up in any reasonable amount of time, nor have the motivation, more's the pity.
I've moved to podman (quadlet) containers mostly, easy to read and edit, secure (mostly userspace), systemctl integration, autoupdate. I've done my distrohopping, fedora (in my case bazzite immutable) isn't going anywhere, does everything I need. I run fairly lean, but have a bunch of stuff that can be spun up at a whim that I don't use daily. It's entertaining without being a burden, and useful stuff just happens.
Honestly, ssh and btop cover most of my monitoring needs, serious stuff gets a notify-send to my laptop. I've tried the web gui stuff and I don't look at it enough to justify it, I'm not a sysad monitoring hundreds of computers, it's just a hobby.
My setup is a barebones Alpine Linux with ssh and docker, and everything I run on it is a container (except backups).
Those I manage remotely (remote Docker context), so the only time I have to log in is to do an update for the few system packages and that's it. And for that ssh is more than enough
I'm currently in the process of setting up my home server again but this was basically my setup before. Alpine Linux + SSH + Docker and I kept everything to a minimum.
This time I'm setting up rootless Podman in place of Docker and as of today the switch over is complete.
I'm thinking of trying to use wireguard as a way to secure my ssh port but I'm still trying to learn and figure out if that's possible.
With all the security and trust issues hitting the self-hosting headlines, less and simple is completely fine with me.
I’m running OMV with the Docker Compose plugin and I just SSH in for everything else. I run this stack both at home and work. It’s a good middle ground for me of stability and customizability.
@Fierro @selfhosted I mostly use YunoHost as I'm a beginner in self-hosting, but if needed I have command line. Ssh, then even one docker container or two. Mainly on Windows system with powershell or ordinary command line.