I previously (and sort of still do) ran my homelab on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 4GB of RAM. That lab still exists but I recently picked up an Orange Pi 5B with 8GB of RAM and have been building out my services from scratch.
This time I thought I would do it properly with a reverse proxy through Caddy and email notifications, neither of which I made use of before.
It’s improved my experience so much! Being able to access my services from beyond my network without necessarily having to be connected to my VPN is great. My goal is to spin up my own Mastodon and Lemmy instances but it’s sort of a bit daunting to work out hosting them inside of Docker like the rest of my services. If anyone has any good guides or suggestions I would be interested.
Also looking for suggestions on ways to add some mass storage to this setup, I previously used a Drobo 5N2 but a quick google will tell you the way that company went.
What status app or dashboard is this?
This is Heimdall. You can add your apps and links to them and then link their API to show statuses.
I have some custom CSS on top of it which I found with a couple of quick searches.
I’ve been wanting to do a pi lab myself someday, and your post is so encouraging! Were there any guides or other things you used to get going that you found particularly helpful?
I had a look through my bookmarks and found this great writeup. This goes into a lot of detail and talks about a lot of services which might be a bit confronting. Honestly, searching for smaller piece by piece guides for installing this service or that service and slowly building out your projects is a good way to go.
That sounds like a really good plan, thank you!
The ansible Lemmy playbook is actually very good and quite easy to set up. Don’t hesitate!
I integrate it with rundeck. Took a bit to learn, but it worth it for me.
Maybe try asking the admins of different lemmy instances
Can you share any links / tutorials for getting Caddy setup and all the reverse proxy stuff?
I ended up using caddy-docker-proxy because the vanilla Caddyfile method was giving me some trouble with my internal docker hostnames. This container just lets you add some labels to your other containers in your docker compose file and then works out the proxy for you, so long as you’ve made the appropriate DNS records.
Thanks!
