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khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months agoOne word of advice. Document the steps you do to deploy things. If your hardware fails or you make a simple mistake, it will cost you weeks of work to recover. This is a bit extreme, but I take my time when setting things up and automate as good as possible using ansible. You don’t have to do this, but the ability to just scrap things and redeploy gives great peace of mind.
And right now you are reluctant to do this because it’s gonna cost you too much time. This should not be the case. I mean, just imagine things going wrong in a year or two and you can’t remember most things you know now. Document your setup and write a few scripts. It’s a good start.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 months ago
I get your point. Ansible is quite interesting too. I do document most of the things I do but I have to admit I have been slacking a bit, recently. There is just so much stuff that needs doing and a lot of interesting projects to learn about that sometimes stuff gets forgotten.
My personal impression of the linux space is still that folks get dumped on by the community for not being immersed in the nitty gritty though.
Thats neither fun nor will it work to get more people interested in linux. People make mistakes, learn to help without judging.
Have a good one.
khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I know what you mean. Most people mean well, some are a bit too aggressive, but probably also mean well. I honestly sometimes roll my eyes when I start reading about tailscale, cloudflare tunnels etc. The main thing is not to expose anything you don’t absolutely need to expose.
For access from the outside the most you should need is a random high port forwarded for ssh into a dedicated host (can be a VM / container if you don’t have a spare RaspberryPi). And Wireguard on a host which updates the server package regularly. So probably not on your router, unless the vendor is on top of things.
Regarding ansible and documenting, I totally get your point. Ten years ago I was an absolute Linux noob and my flatmate had to set up an IRC bouncer on my RPi. It ran like that for a few years and I dared not touch anything. Then the SD card died and took down the bouncer, dynDNS and a few other things running on it.
It takes me a lot of time to write and test my ansible playbooks and custom roles, but every now and then I have to move services between hosts. And this is an absolute life saver. Whenever I’m really low on time and need to get something up and running, I write down things in a readme in my infra repository and occasionally I would go through my backlog when I have nothing better to do.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 months ago
Thanks for elaborating! This is very helpful and I appreciate it. Will definitely check out ansible.
I think i‘m probably on my way there anyway as I‘m setting up my own git forge and starting to use proper versioning.
Then I‘ll probably try out ansible on some vm or new device. Have a good one!