My home lab has a mild amount of complexity and I’d like practice some good habits about documenting it. Stuff like, what each system does, the OS, any notable software installed and, most importantly, any documentation around configuration or troubleshooting.

i.e. I have an internal SMTP relay that uses a letsencrypt SSL cert that I need to use the DNS challenge to renew. I’ve got the steps around that sitting in a Google Doc. I’ve got a couple more google docs like that.

I don’t want to get super complicated but I’d like something a bit more structured than a folder full of google docs. I’d also like to pull it in-house.

Thanks

Edit: I appreciate all the feedback I’ve gotten on this post so far. There have been a lot of tools suggested and some great discussion about methods. This will probably be my weekend now.

  • Father_RedbeardEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Obsidian. I love that it uses simple markdown files so it’s platform agnostic. Documenting my setup has been a lifesaver.

    • pacjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Syncthing plays nicely with obsidian if you ever have to synchronise the vault between multiple devices.

      • Father_RedbeardEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I ended up springing for their sync service. It’s expensive. But works great. I did try both syncthing and placing the vault on my Google drive and both were causing some sync issues. I told myself when the 1 yr membership to Obsidian sync is up I’ll reassess and see if I got my monies worth. If not I’ll jump to Logseq or similar.