HomelabOS
Infrastructure
self-hosted server deployment
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
3 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks useful and similar to the commenter's own homelab setup
From 2 comments
This looks really nice, and is similar to my homelab, except that mine took many tens of hours to setup and tune.
etbusch on HNThis is awesome! I run a similar project called Ansible-NAS, which was borne out of FreeNAS being a pain in the ass to manage and upgrade.…
davestephens on HN
Objections
Putting black-box Docker containers under config management undermines its benefits
From 2 comments
Maybe I'm being obtuse, but doesn't using a configuration management tool to deploy black-box Docker containers eliminate many of the advantages of using config management in the…
neuromantik8086 on HNYes, lol.
antocv on HN
Maintenance burden of many self-hosted services
From 1 comment
Interesting. Those that decide to self-host this stuff, do you ever worry about the maintenance burden? While obviously this doesn’t help privacy concerns and I’m sure certain…
giobox on HN
Requests
Add WireGuard instead of OpenVPN
From 1 comment
Super interested in this, will try it out. Thank you for building it. A couple of questions: - Can I deploy this to a Digital Ocean droplet or similar? (I am assuming it's the…
alaq on HN
Add Matrix messaging
From 1 comment
Super interested in this, will try it out. Thank you for building it. A couple of questions: - Can I deploy this to a Digital Ocean droplet or similar? (I am assuming it's the…
alaq on HN
Better Pi-hole support
From 1 comment
You can definitely deploy this to a DO droplet. Pi-hole out of the box support is a bit wonky at the moment, I've been working on it, but it's not quite to the point you…
NickBusey on HN
Questions
Can it be deployed to a DigitalOcean droplet?
From 1 comment
Super interested in this, will try it out. Thank you for building it. A couple of questions: - Can I deploy this to a Digital Ocean droplet or similar? (I am assuming it's the…
alaq on HN
How does it handle SSO and multiple users?
From 1 comment
Interesting. Does this handle SSO at all, and if so how? Semi-relatedly, does it support multiple users?
joh6nn on HN
Alternatives named
Ansible-NAS
From 1 comment
This is awesome! I run a similar project called Ansible-NAS, which was borne out of FreeNAS being a pain in the ass to manage and upgrade.…
davestephens on HN
Sovereign
From 1 comment
This is an interesting effort and reminds me a bit of https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign, though HomelabOS has significantly more apps and sovereign hasn't been touched in a…
mnutt on HN
Sandstorm
From 1 comment
This is an interesting effort, How can this be compared with the Sandstorm project? TIA!!
foolinaround on HN
DebOps
From 1 comment
If you are looking for a similar project based on Debian Stable, you can check out DebOps: https://debops.org/ (disclaimier, I'm the author and main contributor). This is also a…
drybjed on HN