I am finally making the push to self host everything I possibly can and leave as many cloud services as I can.
I have years of linux server admin experience so this is not a technical post, more of an attempt to get some crowd wisdom on a complex migration.
I have a plan and have identified services i would like to implement. Take it as given that the hardware I have can handle all this. But it is a lot so it won’t happen at once.
I would appreciate thoughts about the order in which to implement services. Install is only phase one, migration of existing data and shaking everything down to test stability is also time consuming. So any insights, especially on services that might present extra challenges when I start to add my own data, or dependencies I haven’t thought of.
The list order is not significant yet, but I would like to have an incremental plan. Those marked with * are already running and hosting my data locally with no issues.
Thanks in advance.
Base system
- Proxmox VE 8.3
- ZFS for a time-machine like backup to a local hdd
- Docker VM with containers
- Home Assistant *
- Esphome *
- Paperless-ngx *
- Photo Prism
- Firefly III
- Jellyfin
- Gitea
- Authelia
- Vaultwarden
- Radicale
- Prometheus
- Grafana
Why is that?
Everything @CondorWonder@lemmy.ca said and because backups to Home Assistant OS also include addons, which is just very convenient.
My Proxmox setup has 3 VMs:
Also, if you ever plan to switch from a virtualized environment to bare metal servers, this layout makes switching over dead easy.
You get easy access to their addons with a VM (aka HAOS). You can do the same thing yourself but you have to do it all (creating the containers, configuring them, figuring out how to connect them to HA/your network/etc., updating them as needed) - whereas with HAOS it generally just works. If you want that control great but go in with that understanding.