I have quite a few self-hosted services, both on machines at home and on a VPS. And there are even more odds and ends I’ve written that do things on my home network. A one-person maintenance team runs into serious memory limitations, particularly for the services that just run fine for years at a time.
After running into the frustration of forgetting how to run Nextcloud upgrades on the command line for the nth time, I realized it was time to write a tool.
The system wayfinder is what came out of that frustration. It lets you leave notes and commands in place around your infrastructure. After dogfooding it a bit, I was delighted when it saved me a ton of trouble dealing with one of my docker containers.
I took some time to work on it proper, wrote it up, and put it on GitHub, even though it is still a pre-release. Would you use a tool like this? What else would you want in it?
Edit: adding link to GitHub https://github.com/robbieh/way
Publish that puppy. It can’t hurt.
Don’t do it in github, though. Sourcehut is better; or if you crave that cluttered, JS-heavy feel, Gitlab.
why not codeberg? kind of lightweight on JS, but especially compared to gitlab.
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Thanks for the reminder. I already had it in GitHub so I edited the post and added the link. I’ll check out Sourcehut. Hadn’t used it before.