I've been hosting more of my own stuff over time, but keeping up with the maintenance manually has been proving to be too much.

[violet@corteximplant.com]

I've been hosting more of my own stuff over time, but keeping up with the maintenance manually has been proving to be too much. I remember 100 years ago as a sysadmin setting up an Ubuntu management server to manage the fleet of Ubuntu servers at work in the style of the Red Hat stuff that did the same. Now I run a variety of instances, and I don't know what kind of orchestration machine I would need to spin up to keep things like OPNsense, remote *nix hosts, etc. up to date. Any recommendations?

My goal is to use only FOSS whenever possible (leaning towards things on Starlight's NO AI list so I can avoid slopcode running in my network wherever possible.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #askfedi #sysadmin #linuxadmin

[typositoire@infosec.exchange]

@violet I installed LXD on all my machines, spawn VM with terraform and bootstrap them using AWX (Ansible) that runs on k3s on one of the LXD host. Probably not perfect, but it works. I have a friend that went into the rabbit hole of PXE servers but that seemed more work for me lol but he uses mostly Talos nodes so makes sense.

[violet@corteximplant.com]

@typositoire wow, thats a lot of interrelated systems! I'm trying to maintain as close to 100% foss as possible, so I dont (think?) some of those qualify. I didn't think to include that in the OP, I should edit that in.

I'm leaning towards a simple Debian system with shell scripts that reach out to complete the tasks I need as I write them atm

[typositoire@infosec.exchange]

@violet Yeah end goal is different I guess, I prefer not reinventing the wheel. I just wanted to be able to spawn anything I wanted quick and this gives it to me.