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@@ -7,12 +7,18 @@ self-hosting. I intend to achieve this by providing building blocks
 promoting best practices to self-host a wide range of services. Also,
 the design will be extendable to allow user defined services.
 
-As far as best practices go, I intend to provide, for all services:
+As far as features and best practices go, I intend to provide, for all
+services:
 - protection and single sign-on using [Keycloak](https://www.keycloak.org/), where possible
 - automated backing up of data and databases with [Borgmatic](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/)
 - encrypted external backup with [Rclone](https://rclone.org/)
 - central logging, monitoring and dashboards with [Prometheus](prometheus.io/) and [Grafana](https://grafana.com/)
+- integration with external services that are hard to self-host, like email sending
+- deployment of services on the same or different machines
 - home dashboard with [Dashy](https://github.com/lissy93/dashy)
+- vault to store passwords and api keys using [Password Store](https://www.passwordstore.org/), those shouldn't be stored in config or on disk
+- test changes using local virtual machines to avoid botching prod
+- automated CI tests
 
 Implementation is made with the disnix suite -
 [Disnix](https://github.com/svanderburg/disnix),