What I’d really like is to run the admin interface for an app on a self hosted system behind firewalls, and push read replicas out into the cloud. But I haven’t seen a database where the master pushes data to the replicas instead of the replicas contacting the master. Which creates some pretty substantial tunneling problems that I don’t really want on my home network.

Is there a replica implementation that works in the direction I want?

I self host a lot of stuff myself: https://uptime.jeena.net/status/everything

And until now without AI, but I'm kind of curious but afraid that it will bring my servers down and then I can't roll back :D But perhaps if I would move over to NixOS, then it would be easy to roll back.

Interesting subject, thank you! I have a cluster of 2 Orange Pis (16 GB RAM each) plus a Raspberry Pi. I think it's high time to get them back on my desk. I never had time to get very far with the setup due to a lack of time. It took so long to write the Ansible scripts/playbooks, but with Claude Code, it's worth a try now. So thanks for the article; it makes me want to dust it off!

I also built a "devops" agent on top of claude code like that - I deployed it on my server and let it debug all the gnarly infra issues for me.

I route it through a familiar interface like slack tho as I don't like to ssh from phone or w/e using a tool I built - https://www.claudecontrol.com/

I use coding agents for similar kind of problem very frequently. It makes wonders debugging obscure system issues related to components that I have no faintest idea about. Also building a homelab very soon. I think you may find this project useful: https://github.com/av/harbor

I’d suggest rather asking it to write you bash scripts

And ideally doing it via lxc or vm.

Extra complication but gives you something repeatable that you can stick on git

I self-host many things on a NAS (Asustor) using Portainer (a Docker UI/facilitator). It all works perfectly and has a marginal cost of about zero, since I need the NAS in any case.

But I wouldn't give the keys of the house to Claude or any LLM for that matter. When needed, I ask them questions and type commands myself. It's not that hard.

One day when I have some extra bucks I'd try to get a home server running, but the idea of having something eating grid electricity 24/7 doesn't seem to play along well with this 3rd world budget. Are there some foolproof and not so costly off-grid/solar setups to look at (like a Raspberry-based thingy or similar)?

I have been self hosting since the late 90s, but I've always just installed everything on Bare metal. I hear more and more about these elaborate Docker setups. What does a setup like this actually look like?

Is it just a single docker-compose.yml with everything you want to run and 'docker compose up'?