What's the proper way of setting up everything from scratch and making
migration easy?
reddit / selfhosted

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leonheartx1988 · 2023-12-10 20:30

Hello everyone!

I have a local machine with Proxmox and I have self hosted VirtualMin,
Apache, Docker, NextCloud, Plex and I am happy with the configuration
and everything.

Howveer, those were set up with the traditional way:
apt install

And I believe I will have a hard way of migrating, because everything
have been setup locally and I'm considering for example, migrating
NextCloud to Cloud VPS.

Problem is I'll have to go through the whole configuration process
again, create a VPS/Cluster with Ubuntu Server, ssh on it, install
NextCloud etc.

The whole process is painful and this why I'm asking.

One of the traditional ways for migrating that I know of, is with
docker, configure everything on the image, port forward the ports and
I think I will be fine.

But are there any alternatives?

Like configure everything, package it along with it's configuration,
create the VPS, upload the package to the VPS, configure the DNS and
done.

Thanks in advance for your time

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secopsx · 2023-12-10 22:12

Ansible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9eCU4bGgjQ

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astrognome17 · 2023-12-12 04:10

This is where [configuration management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Infrastructure_as_code#Community_content) comes into play. Something
as simple as a set of bash scripts work, something more sophisticated
like an Ansible role also works.