synae[he/him]

it’s free

look hegseth, I like a drink too, and guys like us know that when you get a whiskey you say “make it a double”. But maybe leave that kind of talk outside the situation room

My successful path for homelab stuff is to use kubernetes (k3s locally and digital ocean DOKS for cloud resources) with argocd and gitops. Everything I change is via a git commit+push so I can always rollback, and if this machine dies, once I replace/repair the hardware I can pull all backed up content from object storage, install K3s again, reconfigure the authentication for Argocd, and it will repopulate all the running services.

I am absolutely not saying this is the right path for you as I came into nearly all my modern knowledge through my career, but it is a path