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What do you use to document your home lab? (lemmy.procrastinati.org)
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My home lab has a mild amount of complexity and I'd like practice some good habits about documenting it. Stuff like, what each system does, the OS, any notable software installed and, most importantly, any documentation around configuration or troubleshooting.

i.e. I have an internal SMTP relay that uses a letsencrypt SSL cert that I need to use the DNS challenge to renew. I've got the steps around that sitting in a Google Doc. I've got a couple more google docs like that.

I don't want to get super complicated but I'd like something a bit more structured than a folder full of google docs. I'd also like to pull it in-house.

Thanks

Edit: I appreciate all the feedback I've gotten on this post so far. There have been a lot of tools suggested and some great discussion about methods. This will probably be my weekend now.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me, making a graph is the best documentation, everything else is in config files.

If I really do need to takes notes, It's currently in notion but I'm hoping soon I'll be able to self-host AnyType (https://github.com/orgs/anyproto/discussions/17)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What software did you use to make this diagram?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is in the diagram I think: “Excalidraw”

Also never heard of it and always nice to find new FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It is indeed Excalidraw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is quite the diagram. Thanks for sharing.