Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services

Re:Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hoste... by kop316 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:40AM (#18441246)

Certainly! I use FreeNAS as a backend (file server) and Debian as an App server. What I do is mount any data paths via NFS to Freenas. This is primarily for Nextcloud and Plex, so if I want to reinstall it elsewhere, I can do that without needing to back up and it will come up. Both Nextcloud and FreeNAS run ZFS with snapshots, and Debian runs as an auto update and alert be is a restart is needed.

FreeNAS also allows for VMs, so I can install VMs on my freeNAS and allow then the same thing (I use regular ext4 for the VMs, as they are mounted on a zblock and get snapshotting). Right now they are all encrypted, so if something does restarts, I have to physically be there to decrypt. I think i can use dropbear SSH to prevent this, but I am okay with this limitation for now.

If you have specific questions please let me know.

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Re:Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hoste... by kop316 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:48PM (#18443603)

I should also say, zfs is fairly flexible as well, and you can partition different parts of the filesystem to have different snapshots too. That way you can also revert certain parts of the filesystem without reverting everything.

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