How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?
I’m currently in process of “building” my own server and I’m kinda wondering how “far” most people are going, where do y’all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.
Ansible and docker compose.
i do this, mixed with a little
docker runinside of Makefiles. i store all my ansible playbooks in a repo, along with other repos for different projects and purposes. i store all of those in git repos that i clone via ssh from a server that acts as a NAS backed by zfs.I just use Ansible + docker_container. Does it all beautifully!