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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have quite a few self-hosted services, both on machines at home and on a VPS. And there are even more odds and ends I've written that do things on my home network. A one-person maintenance team runs into serious memory limitations, particularly for the services that just run fine for years at a time.

After running into the frustration of forgetting how to run Nextcloud upgrades on the command line for the nth time, I realized it was time to write a tool.

The system wayfinder is what came out of that frustration. It lets you leave notes and commands in place around your infrastructure. After dogfooding it a bit, I was delighted when it saved me a ton of trouble dealing with one of my docker containers.

I took some time to work on it proper, wrote it up, and put it on GitHub, even though it is still a pre-release. Would you use a tool like this? What else would you want in it?

Edit: adding link to GitHub https://github.com/robbieh/way

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Hey, cool idea! I've also got a bunch of dockers and services running on a swarm on multiple devices. Like any good project, it's on it's like 3rd or 4th iteration now, having run into some roadblock each time. I structure most of my services into stacks. For example, I have a stack for proxy, www, monitoring, and of course the 'ol arr stack. Anyways, I keep all my notes on the stack compose yaml files that seems to work for me. I only interact with docker on the cli because portainer wants me to pay to use docker swarm. But because I'm so adept at docker on the cli, I have recently stumbled across gemini-cli. Dude, having that to help trouble shoot docker stuff is amazing. It's really good, but I'd keep it on a short leash.