I’d like to start doing a better job of tracking the changes I made to my homelab environment. Hardware, software, network, etc. I’m just not sure what path I want to take and was hoping to get some recommendations. So far the thoughts I have are:

  • A change history sub-section of my wiki. (I’m not a fan of this idea.)
  • A ticketing system of some sort. (I tried this one and it was too heavy. I’d need to find a simple solution.)
  • A nextcloud task list.
  • Self-host a gitlab instance, make a project for changes and track with issues. Move what stuff I have in github to this instance and kill my github projects. (It’s all private stuff.)

I know that several of you are going to say “config as code” and I get it. But I’m not there yet and I want to track the changes I’m making today.

Thanks

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    4 months ago

    It can be in git even if you’re not doing ‘config as code’ or ‘infrastructure as code’ yet/ever.

    I have some of this. I have an ansible playbook I use to do initial vm/lxc setup and I’ve built out a number of roles. But none of my systems are to a point were I could just delete the vm, spin a new one up, point ansible at it, and pickup where I left off.

    The one thing I have that probably closest to this is my internal BIND zones, which double as my IPAM. I’ve been fairly diligent about committing changes and documenting what the change was.