Agreed.
On a separate note, do we need to discuss your water adhesion issues? 🤣🤣
I’m a nerd, doing nerd things…
- 0 Posts
- 5 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 10th, 2023
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
Nor is it brain science… :)
Yeah, I guess over my life I’ve acquired a lot of knowledge in a very niche field. I think of it as relatively easy, but I know it isn’t easy for everyone. But, hey, that’s why there are so many of us willing to teach you how to fish.
Agreed - answering the first questions - and deciding where you are willing to accept risk is a huge portion of the process.
Raspberry Pi’s are a huge gateway drug. :) My kubernetes cluster is 4 pi 4B’s in a rack. Great for learning and polishing skills.
Self hosting what? I assume a piefed instance, but knowing for sure would be good. I host mastodon, but not piefed. The differences between those should be relatively minor.
The basics are similar:
- Chose a backend platform (a vm in someone else’s cloud, your own network, etc.)
- Spin up a vm
- load docker or similar (I use both docker and k3s)
- Instantiate your containers
- get a domain chosen and ssl certs in place
- put a reverse proxy in place
- open everything up to the world
- profit
I’d start simple and grow as you become more confident in your skills. It’s not rocket surgery - if you have advanced skills, you’ll be fine. Even playing with 1-6 above would be good for skill building.
There is nothing illegal about what you’ve stated thus far - so I’m not sure why you are approaching this from a secretive “throw away” standpoint. Why do you think secrecy is needed?
Your number 1 question can be quite involved, so that probably needs to be probed the most.
For 2 I’d do docker - very simple and straightforward.
For 3 it’s just getting your vm setup right. I’d probably recommend Ubuntu server and then put docker on that. Tons of guides for doing that. You could use other OS flavors, but Ubuntu is a good first choice.
Well, if you like sandboxing, Docker is absolutely for you!!
With regards to the self-hosted aspect, pick one that really interests you, and get it up and running. That will give you experience and confidence going forward. The remaining items will be mostly cookie-cutter additions. If I also host that same item, I’d be happy to share samples of how I did it.