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submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was wondering about the pros and cons about self hosting your services via Yunohost. I currently have all my services hosted in docker containers on a Debian homeserver. As I was planning on a fresh install, setting up an Ansible script to simplify backup & restoring and bake in a centralized user management system (currently I annoyingly have separate passwords for each service for my 5 users).

Now I was wondering if I could get some experience reports from Yunohost users. What are the problems you faced? Are you satisfied? Are there so many services you couldn't find that you rather went the selfhosted way and integrate Authelia or a similar service? Any ideas and feedback is welcome that can help make up my mind.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I tried it, but not knowing what was going on under the hood made me worried about how I would fix anything when it broke, and how timely updates to software would be. I also don't think it had any kind of central user management for the installed apps.

If you're already familiar with docker I would stick with that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It has user-management, though. YunoHost comes with LDAP, provides email addresses to all users, a permission system to allow what groups of users can acces which services... And they integrate that into the individual services. That is, if they have some LDAP plugin. A decent amount of services can't be tied into their user system. But it works flawless for chat, Nextcloud and the main contenders...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, as I remember it didn't do integration with a lot of apps, so you end up with some that have auth and some that don't at all, and some that you have to manage auth internally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That is correct. Most big apps have LDAP auth and YunoHost will have them integrated into their system. But lots of other apps don't have that, or it's complicated for other reasons... And you'll end up with those not integrated and seperate. They show you the level of integration somewhere.