Hello everyone :)

My Linux learning and Homelab setup is going smoothly and after a long period of stagnation, I’m in a new learning curve :D ! I just learned the magic of hard links and implemented them with bind mounts (yeah hard links only work on the same file system :P) to my Qbittorrent scripting to automagically move them as hard links to a bind mount accessible to Sonarr, Radarr, Jellyfin… and move, rename and do all other things without even touching the original files: PUR MAGIC !

Everything is a file? Naah, everything is a hard link ! (Or inode? xD)

While I’m overjoyed I learned and have a better understanding of files, hard links, soft links, file system, docker, web, all kind of things related to IT… I’m getting kinda overwhelmed of what’s happening on my system !!

  • I have a dozen docker compose on my server, all behind traefik resolved by my piHole DNS on a raspberry pi, some have a custom image made by myself for certificate purpose or some manual changes I added.

  • I have some .config files in my ~/ to improve my micro experience and make it more integrated over SSH with my Mac and Desktop. If also have some config files in my /root directory for my miniCA for all my service with my personal local domain name and other config files like /etc/bash_aliases and some changes in /etc/bash.bashrc

  • I have some python .venv for learning and scripting with python

  • I have a complex and long bash script backup for all my docker containers to back up my volumes, config files and media files separately

  • Installed some useful and needed packages like resolvconf, wireguard, samba…

  • I have a few samba shares, all accessible in my LAN with sometimes some exotic configuration for Mac integration

  • My docker containers have some bind mounts shared volumes

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And now I also have some hard links lying around in the mix ! So I have to say it out loud: I’m OVERWHELMED !

Yes, I do keep some notes in Obsidian and also have a self-hosted Forgejo to keep my notes updated and have some kind of version control of changes in my scripts, but I do feel like I’m not sure anymore what I have… Not to say I didn’t mention all the other stuff related to my phone (baikal, ntfy…) or how to keep everything updated (WUD does the trick for containers :)) and tidy…

I guess I’m looking for something magic, something that could In ONE blink give me what’s doing what and where? And changes my life for an ever-growing IT space ? Preference something visual…?

I hope to hear from you guys on what I can do to take away this feel of being lost and not being able to fully track my systems and my LAN !

Thank you !

  • fin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I didn’t know about dokploy tbh, thanks. It seems to have more refurbished UI. If I knew this first I would have given it a try. The reason why I’m using coolify right now is that I saw it on Hackernews. I didn’t do much research because it was already opensource and self-hosted ( which are the most important features I require for a software).

    Since Coolify is working fine on my environment for now, I’m not going to get rid of it immediately, but it’s always a good thing to have many other alternatives so that we can cope with enshittification (aka Plex)