I have an Odroid N2+ running Arch Linux ARM that I just love. I have installed a bunch of shit on it like jellyfin (TV), miniflux (RSS), gonic/airsonic-refix (music), soju/gamja (IRC), komga (comics).

I am starting to lose track of things. Like which port which service is running on. Sometimes I even forget which service I am running.

It would be nice to maintain a text configuration that I can use to provision this setup if I have to reinstall everything (as is tradition) and something I can glance over to get a state of things.

Any ideas for this? I feel like something like ansible should for this. I tried looking up stuff for this but search results always show some sweaty nerd managing kubernetes on a fleet of Raspberry Pis (the sweaty nerd calls it "homelab"). Before I start hacking my own stuff I would like to hear if someone else has experience with this.

Thanks.

  • iawia@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    I have Ansible to configure my media server. Some roles for basic setup (storage, directories, network sharing, software installation), and a bunch of services which are mostly run as docker containers. Those rules just setup storage, config, and then start the container.

    Traefik runs as an automatic reverse proxy, picking up new services as they are added. For the few non-docker containers, there's a little config file template added.

    All config is separated out into a separate file, and I've run the same script against another machine, with different accounts and such, to take it from fresh Ubuntu server install to fully functioning in 5 minutes. Well. Plus aan hour filling in all the variables for my friend's accounts😀