The "Geek's Cookbook" is a collection of guides for establishing your own highly-available "private cloud" and using it to run self-hosted services such as GitLab, Plex, NextCloud, etc.
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The Geek Cookbook is a collection of geek-friendly "recipes" to run popular applications on Docker Swarm or Kubernetes, in a progressive, easy-to-follow format. Come and join us, fellow geeks! :neckbeard:
Funky Penguin's "Geek Cookbook" is a collection of how-to guides for establishing your own container-based self-hosting platform, using either Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
Running such a platform enables you to run self-hosted tools such as AutoPirate (Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet and friends), Plex, NextCloud, and includes elements such as:
Recent updates and additions are posted on the CHANGELOG, and there's a friendly community of like-minded geeks in the Discord server.
You already have a familiarity with concepts such as virtual machines, Docker containers, LetsEncrypt SSL certificates, databases, and command-line interfaces.
You've probably played with self-hosting some mainstream apps yourself, like Plex, NextCloud, Wordpress or Ghost.
So if you're familiar enough with the concepts above, and you've done self-hosting before, why would you read any further?
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