Hey all, I've been slowly building services on my server over many many years, starting with running a minecraft ftb server, to where I am now, which is 1 primary system(providing the network filesystem) and 2 auxiliary minipc systems my brother in law recently donated. I moved from Docker to Docker Swarm after getting those MiniPC's and enjoying the added compute. Currently my swarm is running:
- PiHole x2 - AdBlocking and Local DNS Management
- Wg-easy - for Wireguard VPN Management
- nginx - for reverse proxy servicing
- authentik - for Authentication and SSO
- Duplicati - for cloud backups(pointing at backblaze buckets)
- Guacamole - for RDP services
- Grafana+Prometheus+Node-Exporter+Cadvisor+AlertManager - for aggregation and system monitoring
- Gatus - single pane of glass monitoring of services(might remove it now that I've started using Grafana)
- diun - monitoring docker image versions and notification
- Bookstack - Personal Knowledge Base system
- Linkwarden - Collaborative Link Sharing and archiving
- Fasten Health - Local Health Records Storage
- SnipeIT - personal asset management
- Affine - self hosted cloud notebook
- Actual - Budgeting Software
- it-tools - for swiss army knife utilities
- kitchenowl - recipes and grocery lists
- Reactive resume - for resume building with AI empowered editing
- Onetimesecret - for burn after reading secret sharing(using it for distributing credentials to my family)
- Searxng - Local Search Aggregation
- Homarr - Personal Dashboarding
- Home Assistant - Smart Home Management
- N8n - Automating codeless workflows
- Ollama and Open-WebUI - personal Agentic AI
- AudioBookshelf - Audiobook streaming and Management
- OwnCloud - local file sharing and storage
- Plex - Video Streaming
- BitMagnet - DHT network sniffer
- syncthing - for transporting data between local and remote systems
- the *Arrs - for acquiring content
- Docspell - for digitizing and storing important documents
- picsur - for local meme storage
- Calibre+Calibre-web - for Ebook management
- Crafty Controller - for Minecraft Server Management
- RomM - For Emulation and ROM Management.
As I go about my day I'm always looking for new and interesting containers to run, and then scrutinizing if they fill a need, replace an existing service with a better version of the same service, or if it's better off not implementing, then I pull them down. this has been a great experience in devops learning and the longer I work on the server the more best practices I put in place and the more I understand why corporate clouds have some of the practices they have. I look forward to poking around in this community looking to help and to find new containers to accrete into my platform.