Hello, how do you document your home lab? Whether it’s a small server or a big one with firewall and more nodes. I have a small pc with Proxmox and there I have a VM with OpnSense. After I’ve entered my VPN as a interface in OpenSense, I noticed that I slowly lose the overview with the different rules that I have built in my firewall. And I know that my setup is relatively easy in comparison to others here in this community. I want to have a quick Overview at the various VMs, like the Lxc container, Docker containers that I have in this and the IP addresses that I have assigned to them. I search for a simple an intuitiv way for beginners.
I download the YouTube tutorials I followed, upload them to my UAT Jellyfin server, and then when my server is having issues I can’t get to the videos!
A flawless system really
justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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Jokes aside, I do keep some harder to remember stuff written down in a README.md in my repo, but mainly most things are undocumented
foggy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I operate on the philosophy that it is better for me to relearn things that lean on old documentation that may no longer be accurate/relevant.
The best way to implement a safe connection to my home lab today might not be the safest way tomorrow.
Old dog, new tricks, etc.
Also! Your documentation is an attackers wet dream.
negativenull@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Security by obscurity, baby!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m gonna try this neat trick at work
CapitalNumbers@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
while security might be compromised if an attacker found your documentation, it could equally be compromised by having zero documentation
the easier it is for you to get things back up and running in the event of a data loss / corrupted hard drive / new machine / etc, the less likely you are to forget any crucial steps (eg setting up iptables or ufw)
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I do this continually for work as well, I approach every new project assuming best practice or approach options have changed. It doesn’t matter how experienced I am in what I’m doing, I still loop back and check.
It’s such an automatic thing I don’t even think about it, but honestly not sure if it’s because of interest or because of fear of being called out for doing something wrong lol
jagermo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
“Shit, i hope i remeber the key words i searched for”
nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
My wife was mentioning the other day that if something happened to me she’d have absolutely no idea how to work any of this shit and that convinced me to actually start documenting it LMAO
Good time to start doing it too. Aside from setting up a NAS this weekend, I’ve got this project right where I want it for a long while.
redlemace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Guilty too. There are names on router- and switch interfaces. Servers get fixed IP from dhcp so is in the note field there too. That’s about it