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Back in the day it was nice, apt get update && apt get upgrade and you were done.

But today every tool/service has it's own way to being installed and updated:

  • docker:latest
  • docker:v1.2.3
  • custom script
  • git checkout v1.2.3
  • same but with custom migration commands afterwards
  • custom commands change from release to release
  • expect to do update as a specific user
  • update nginx config
  • update own default config and service has dependencies on the config changes
  • expect new versions of tools
  • etc.

I selfhost around 20 services like PieFed, Mastodon, PeerTube, Paperless-ngx, Immich, open-webui, Grafana, etc. And all of them have some dependencies which need to be updated too.

And nowadays you can't really keep running on an older version especially when it's internet facing.

So anyway, what are your strategies how to keep sanity while keeping all your self hosted services up to date?

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All of my self-hosted systems are on a TrueNAS system and using the built-in app system (basically docker). It notifies me when they're needing updates, and has a single click update process for everything. I just login weekly to see if the button is yellow, then check on it like 15 minutes later to see if anything failed to update. Yeah they're all on the same hardware, which is probably bad, but nothing there is strictly necessary, it's all just media stuff and for fun.

The one service that is separate is Pangolin on a DigitalOcean droplet. I just handle that manually when it says there's an update. Still effectively just docker, but no easy button.

I could automate these more, but I would spend more time setting it up than I would save since it only takes me a couple minutes maybe once a week.

[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Just make sure that you can access through a vpn.