Aaand reverted. I setup #GarageHQ with the wrong database type and need to re-install it. Whoops

Did it!
My #Mastodon media is no self-hosted in a #GarageHQ S3 Bucket!

Plan is to finally get to play around with things like #OpenEBS for replicated storage. #GarageHQ for S3. Dynamic #NFS provisioners. And all of the good stuff you need to run a distributed system outside of the comfort of something like #AWS, where these things are just solved for you already.

Someone presented #garage (or #garagehq - an S3-compatible object store) to @nova after her talk on Sunday afternoon at #FOSDEM, if you read this message could you DM me ? :blobfoxthink:

Up next in my series on how and what I #SelfHost: #Storage

I've talked about my #UnRaid server before, my VMs run on there. The built-in docker is added to my Docker Swarm, so it gets assigned containers from the swarm to run.

I also run a #GlusterFS cluster of 3 nodes across the two laptop SSDs (plus one arbiter VM). I run things like my Docker Registry backed onto Gluster, so the images are still available if any one node is down. Overall, I find Gluster slow, and its broken on me a couple times, but it does what I need it to do.

Ultimately, if a docker container requires storage, it will usually get Gluster (and the container run on the laptops), unless it has special IO requirements. Things like SQLite databases will corrupt themselves on Gluster or NFS. So I use deployment placement constraints to hold some docker workloads on my UnRaid server.

In the past, I ran containers anywhere, and they would volume-mount NFS or CIFS to UnRaid, but I ran into a "Stale File Handle" problem -- where containers would randomly have their volumes fail under them, and it would corrupt databases, leave processes stuck in IOWait, etc. No matter what I did, what protocol I used, etc, it would always eventually have problems.

I also run #GarageHQ S3 on my UnRaid server, though I haven't found a great use for it yet. I really want to run #WeedFS, as I like the design and architecture, but likewise haven't found a use case.

🏷️ #SelfHosting