Home Server Configuration

This is a docker-compose and ansible configuration for my home server

SSH config

Add the following to ~/.ssh/config to connect to the server with ssh home instead of ssh user@ip-address

Host home
     HostName <server-ip-address>
     User <user-name>

Docker context

To allow docker on your machine to control the docker instance on the home server add it as a context

docker context create home --docker="host=ssh://home"

Everytime you want to switch the context use

docker context use home

Environment variables

docker compose files uses env variables if values are not set. to setup variables

• copy .env.template to .env
• edit .env to have the variables values
• load the file as you normally do. for me I'm using autoenv

Deploy to remote server

docker compose down
docker compose up -d --remove-orphans

Updating one service

docker compose down <service-name>
docker compose up -d <service-name>

DNS

To make it easier to access containers add DNS A record to the internal server IP address with a wild card. Example:

• Type: A
• Domain: server.emadelsaid.com and *.server.emadelsaid.com
• IP: my server internal IP

Ansible

It installs host system configuration and requirements needed by the containers.

make ansible