Self Host Blocks

• Self Host Blocks
  • Supported Features

Building blocks for self-hosting with battery included.

SHB's (Self Host Blocks) goal is to provide a lower entry-bar for self-hosting. I intend to achieve this by providing opinionated building blocks fitting together to self-host a wide range of services. Also, the design will be extendable to allow users to add services not provided by SHB.

Supported Features

• Authelia as SSO provider.
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.
• LDAP server through lldap, it provides a nice Web UI.
  • Administrative UI only accessible from local network.
• Backup with Restic or BorgBackup
  • UI for backups.
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.
• Monitoring through Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Export systemd services status.
• Reverse Proxy with Nginx.
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.
  • Log slow requests.
  • SSL support.
  • Backup support.
• Nextcloud
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.
  • LDAP auth, unfortunately we need to configure this manually.
  • SSO auth.
  • Backup support.
• Home Assistant.
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.
  • LDAP auth through homeassistant_user LDAP group.
  • SSO auth.
  • Backup support.
• Jellyfin
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.
  • LDAP auth through jellyfin_user and jellyfin_admin LDAP groups.
  • SSO auth.
  • Backup support.
• Hledger
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.
  • LDAP auth through hledger_user LDAP group.
  • SSO auth.
  • Backup support.
• Database Postgres
  • Slow log monitoring.
  • Export metrics to Prometheus.

Tips

Deploy

$ nix run nixpkgs#colmena -- apply

Diff changes

$ nix run nixpkgs#colmena -- build
...
Built "/nix/store/yyw9rgn8v5jrn4657vwpg01ydq0hazgx-nixos-system-baryum-23.11pre-git"

# Make some changes

$ nix run nixpkgs#colmena -- build
...
Built "/nix/store/16n1klx5cxkjpqhrdf0k12npx3vn5042-nixos-system-baryum-23.11pre-git"

$ nix run nixpkgs#nix-diff -- \
  /nix/store/yyw9rgn8v5jrn4657vwpg01ydq0hazgx-nixos-system-baryum-23.11pre-git \
  /nix/store/16n1klx5cxkjpqhrdf0k12npx3vn5042-nixos-system-baryum-23.11pre-git \
  --color always | less