SelfHosting Updates - End Summer 2025

Summer is almost gone…

TL;DR:

Lately I have been tinkering with Python Web Apps and with SGGs:

So I have updated the docker-compose.yml and Dockerfiles at:

They are also placed into the new Home-Lab repo and the stack of this post will be placed also accordingly:

Docker Repository

Collection of Docker Config Files - 0925 Edition 🐳 ↗

Home-Lab Github Repository

Ordered config files | Youtube Video friendly 🐳 ↗

+++ Music server setup

Intro

If you are new with SelfHosting and HomeLab in general, just remember to get started properly:

1. Install some Linux (or try with a VM first / via wsl on your Windows)

2. Get docker installed like a PRO with such script

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JAlcocerT/Linux/main/Z_Linux_Installations_101/Selfhosting_101.sh
nano Selfhosting_101.sh #MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WILL BE RUNNING FIRST

#chmod +x Selfhosting_101.sh
#sudo ./Selfhosting_101.sh 

If you want, you can get Podman instead:

sudo apt install podman
podman --version

3. Open Portainer localhost:9000 and start deploying apps other people created (FAST)

4. Start creating and deploying your Apps

5. Get a domain and bring https when you feel confortable.

6. Along the way…

• Understand what chmod does: https://it-tools.tech/chmod-calculator
• Crontab to schedule tasks: https://it-tools.tech/crontab-generator
• Get in love with docker compose: https://it-tools.tech/docker-run-to-docker-compose-converter

SelfHosting Sept 25

At some point, you will need these:

#df -h
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q) #stop all
#docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q | grep -v '^portainer_data$') #rm all volumes but portainer

#docker system df
#docker image prune -a 
#docker builder prune -a --force

#docker system prune --all --volumes #just clean all...

HTTPs Everywhere

I got to know about https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you’d like.

You also have tailscale, PiHole and DuckDNS.

But as of today id rather:

• Setup NGINX to get https via UI as per this guide
• Or go the Traefik v3.3 approach (programatic https) as per this other guide

Conclusions

If you ever wandered what are the most popular repos: https://gitstar-ranking.com/repositories

Remember about:

HomeLab Repo

Docker Configs

How to Bundle your Apps

Lately I…

Pi and IoT

Ive been tinkering with MicroControllers and MQTT protocol.

• HA https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/

New Software

Ive also tried:

1. Tried Zen browser: https://zen-browser.app/download/

With CTRL+ALT+C it gets really compact!

#pkill -9 brave #brave was not behaving properly lately...
flatpak install flathub app.zen_browser.zen

Welcome to a calmer internet | Firefox based

Zen offers a “Sync” feature, which is implemented using Mozilla Firefox’s Sync feature.

Had a look to couple of tools for diagrams

2. https://github.com/stan-smith/FossFLOW

Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams

3. https://markmap.js.org/ and https://github.com/markmap/markmap

It renders text to diagram and can reference files: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/raw/af76a4c245b302206b16aec503dbe07b/markmap.md

MIT | Build mindmaps with plain text

Other

Link analytics solutions, like Kutt:

FAQ

Your Music Server

Your music your rules.

sh -lc 'echo "Current user: $(whoami)"; id; echo "UID: $(id -u)"; echo "GID: $(id -g)"; echo "Groups: $(id -Gn)"' 

For android, you have as client: https://gitlab.com/ultrasonic/ultrasonic

Free and open-source music streaming Android client for Subsonic API compatible servers

With Supported (tested) Subsonic API implementations

Subsonic Airsonic-Advanced Supysonic Ampache

You also have substreamer app on ios or android (as a client), they also have: https://hub.docker.com/r/ghenry22/substreamer

Just that its not OSS

See also MeTube and Navidrome:

Youtube FE

There are more alternatives, like:

• https://github.com/christian-fei/my-yt

Unlicensed | A clean and minimal youtube frontend, without all the ads and whistles

HomeLab Commands

1. Whats taking that much space?

#sudo du -ahx / | sort -rh | head -n 50
sudo du -ahx . | sort -rh | head -n 50 #from current folder and below

2. I want to clean old container stuff

docker builder prune
#docker system prune -a
docker volume prune
docker image prune -a

3. Stop all containers, but portainer:

#docker ps -a -q --filter 'name=!portainer'
docker ps -q | grep -v portainer | xargs docker stop

How to Change USB Size

This has been useful few times already (from Windows):

Diskpart
List disk
select disk N
clean 
create partition primary

Which Linux to get started?

1. Lubuntu - Because it requires just ~700mb of RAM

2. Ubuntu if you want the same, but with GNOME

You can have ubuntu without UI, if you plan to use your server’s terminal only

3. Garuda, if you want to say I use ARCH BTW. Mind the steep learning curve.

How exactly?

Well, first try download them and run it via a VM.

Then, setup VENTOY into your USBs and bring your favourite one.