Created an ansible script to setup my homeserver - automated creation
of portainer stacks
reddit / selfhosted

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vicks9880 · 2023-11-25 13:13

I have been self hosting from quite a while and recently I had to
restart my server. After restarting, for some reason portainer didn't
recognise any of my stacks and all my stacks becaome "limited" and I
lost all my docker\_compose for all services. So decided to create
this ansible script which keep all my configuration in one place in
case I have to reinstall my server.

The script automates all my setup which used to take hours of work and
now I can have everything up and running in minutes in case of
failure.

I am currently working on backing up configuration files for all my
docker services to Mega (free plan)  using MegaCMD Backup, which keeps
a rotational backup of the files ( last 10 days in my case).

Would like to share with all and hope to get some improvements/ideas:

[https://github.com/vikramsoni2/homelab\_infra](https://github.com/vik
ramsoni2/homelab_infra)

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osuhickeys · 2023-11-25 13:49

Very nice.  I did something similiar, but with an Ubuntu image.  You
might look at Vagrant next to setup your base Debian OS with
automation.  And then look at Packer to create the base Debian OS
Image that gets deployed with Vagrant.  Very powerful tools that are
fairly easy to use.


It took me a couple of weeks to get Ansible, Vagrant, and Packer
configurations working and everything setup the way I wanted it, but
now I can rebuild from scratch in less than an hour and everything is
basically documented in the config files.  The hardest part actually
was the cloud init for an unattended install of Ubuntu (nothing to do
with Ansible, Vagrant, or Packer).

​

The other thing that was key was to put all of the application data on
a separate volume and mount it to the new host when it is created so I
was not having to spend hours doing a restore of the application data
just because the OS got corrupted.

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vicks9880 · 2023-11-25 14:00

Thanks, I will take a look. I remember using vagrant for sandboxing my
javascript apps during the time when docker arrived in the market.
Haven't used it in a long time. But yeah, remote OS installation would
be awesome

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DisastrousMagician16 · 2023-11-25 14:07

How much free storage does Mega give you?

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vicks9880 · 2023-11-25 14:12

I have 50GB free, but I believe they reduced it to 20GB for new users.
Plenty enough for the application data.

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