Self Host Blocks

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 building blocks promoting best practices to self-host a wide range of services. Also, the design will be extendable to allow users to add services not provided by SHB.

As far as features and best practices go, I intend to provide, for all services:

• Protection and single sign-on using Keycloak, where sensible.
• Automated backup of data and databases with Borgmatic.
• Encrypted external backup with Rclone.
• Central logging, monitoring and dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Integration with external services that are hard to self-host, like email sending.
• Deployment of every services on the same or different machines.
• Home dashboard with Dashy.
• Vault to store passwords and api keys using Password Store, those shouldn't be stored in config or on disk.
• Test changes using local virtual machines to avoid botching prod.
• Automated CI tests that can be run locally using virtual machines.

Implementation is made with the disnix suite - Disnix, Dysnomia, NixOps - built on top of the nix ecosystem.

Progress Status

Currently, this repo is WIP and the first two services I intend to provide are Tiny Tiny RSS and Vaultwarden. Vaultwarden was chosen as it's IMO the first stepping stone to enable self-hosting. Tiny Tiny RSS was chosen because it is somewhat lightweight.