How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?
I’m currently in process of “building” my own server and I’m kinda wondering how “far” most people are going, where do y’all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.
Web servers: unikernel (nanos) + fastly to backblaze Mail servers: tailscale (for admin ssh), fail2ban, letsencrypt nginx, docker compose, mailu, heavy use of vps firewall Raspberry pi “servers”: k3s, managed with lens desktop pro, but honestly learning kubernetes isn’t exactly enjoyable and feels painful compared to a shell script that launches dead simple API deployments
I used to do a lot of Ansible to manage a lot of servers but most of the time the thing I need to fix is manual, and a setup.md in my personal notes is all I need for “how do I make a new minio backup host” or whatever.