Sorry, maybe a weird question. But I am gonna acquire a nice server soon and am interested on how to manage that. I want to run stuff like a webserver, matrix server and just a lot of cool stuff. But how do I approach that on a software level? Any tips would be nice. Thanks
Docker-compose and a terminal is how I do it. Its simple and effective. I’m able to manage ~20 services that way.
I run vanilla Kubernetes on 4 worker nodes and 3 control planes for high availability.
Unless you’re some freak who enjoys K8S so much you don’t want to ever get away from it, I don’t recommend it
Docker and portainer. Works good for me as a newbie 😄
I run a Kubernetes cluster across 3 different servers (nodes) + one small control plane server.
I run as much as I can baremetal on Debian. If I can’t do baremetal I use podman on Debian.
Professionally I am an “Architect” and not much involved in system config (anymore), what I describe below is how I do things for my own, private, servers: Not a big fan of docker, it too often means “cobbled together by a dev not understanding security implications” aka “Institutionalized ‘works on my machine’” (of course there are exceptions!). Generally I like using Ansible, because it feels close to how I learned things (ssh, manually), while still making things reproducible (Infrastructure as Code). But, again, not too big a fan of using other peoples “roles”, because you never know how well they actually understand what they’re doing. I read them for a rough understanding, but usually opt to write my own, based on careful reading of a given software’s config manual.
Check out Proxmox hypervisor. Currently running it on an Epyc server I peiced together. Running a dozen or so VMs and a multitude of lxc containers. PfSense routers, docker stacks (I prefer portainer to manage these), Home Assistant, proxy manager, dns server, cloudflare tunnels and game servers, Proxmox easily manages it all. At a cost of $0, its worth checking out.
OMV on one. The other I use Lazydocker. It’s excellent
