Runtipi: Homeserver management made easy

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1429257

It has an ‘App store’ that’s been growing a lot lately. Writing new docker-compose.yaml files is easy (see: https://www.runtipi.io/docs/contributing/adding-a-new-app ), and exposing them behind NAT, e.g. from home it’s easy too (see: https://www.runtipi.io/docs/guides/expose-apps-with-cloudflare-tunnels )… But my favorite perk is the folder structure (see: https://www.runtipi.io/docs/reference/folder-structure ), and the fact that ‘media’ is shared between apps.

  • HousePantherEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    I am not a fan of the way they do their setup procedure. I have no way of validating their install script other than to download it and go line by line to make certain it’s not malware. I think I’ll skip it. Hard pass but thanks.

    • adr1anOP
      1•10 months ago

      Fair enough, I have learned to live with curl first, then execute. Or going through the trustworthiness of the repository author (e.g. number of stars, contributors, etc.) More or less the same safeguard I take for packages I install from Arch User Repositories. I’m curious, tho, How do you feel about “docker pull”? Containerization has limits…

      • HousePantherEnglish
        0•10 months ago

        I am truly no fan of containerization. I only will containerize an app once I understand what it is doing fully. Otherwise, I think containerization is merely an abstraction layer for someone who wants to get up and running quickly which is I think is not advisable. That’s my 0.02 anyways.

        • @[email protected]
          3•10 months ago

          I’m intrigued. How do you deploy apps in your homelab, presumably with some needing access externally, and still maintain privilege separation for each of them?

          I use containerization as the new chroot jail, as well as for rapid (re)deployment capability. I can easily spin up or tear down services I might want to test or play with, and having separate containers for everything means I can create very specific rules and routes for each service as required.

          In fact, a lot (not all) of my services are docker stacks running in their own LXCs on Proxmox. Containerception.

  • @[email protected]
    1•10 months ago

    I can’t find anything in the docs, but does this support DNS-01 challenges for letsencrypt? I’ve tried other ‘server panels’ before and they all seem to have a major limitation in that they only support the HTTP challenge, making them impossible to use unless you want to expose the whole server via port 80.