I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it’s been a very nice endeavor.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    81·
    3 months ago

    what’s maintenance? is that when an auto-update breaks everything and you spend an entire weeknight looking up tutorials because you forgot what you did to get this mess working in the first place?

      • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenOPEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I think auto update is perfectly fine, just check out what kind of versioning the devs are using and pin the part of the version that will introduce breaking changes.

          • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenOPEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            You can have the best of both worlds - scheduled auto updates on a time that usually works for you.

            With growing complexity, there are so many components to update, it’s too easy to miss some in my experience. I don’t have everything automated yet (in fact, most updates aren’t) but I definitely strive towards it.

              • iggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                There’s a fine line between “auto-updates are bad” and “welp, the horribly outdated and security hole riddled CI tool or CMS is how they got in”. I tend to lean toward using something like renovate to queue up the updates and then approve them all at once. I’ve been seriously considering building out a staging and prod env for my homelab. I’m just not sure how to test stuff in staging to the point that I’d feel comfortable auto promoting to prod.

    • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’ve had this happen twice in two weeks since installing Watchtower and have since scheduled it to only run on Friday evening…

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Nothing greater than crashing your weekend evening just trying to watch a movie on a broken jellyfin server :'D