I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

  1. What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
  2. What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
  3. What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
  • NomecksEnglish
    9•4 months ago

    Yes, but you don’t need Kubernetes from the start.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•4 months ago

      Well I guess podman works fine for the first few months. Interestingly I still use build-ah heavily for building my custom images

      • NomecksEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        I find a lot of stuff is using docker compose, which works with Podman, but using straight docker is easier, especially if it’s nothing web-facing

        • @[email protected]English
          2•4 months ago

          Funnily enough Docker compose has never worked for me on Podman. There always seems to be something that is incompatible (also due to me running on Debian). However, I feel like it should become a standard amongst homelabbers and professionals to use Kubernetes manifests going forward, since it is the most portable.