today i found: runtipi

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Almost two weeks ago I posted my thoughts on localhosting on /c/selfhosted (opens in a new window), and I’m happy to have gotten some nice feedback and inputs. One of those was to have a look at yunohost (opens in a new window).

I spun up a new small VPS on Hetzner to try and install it on a fresh machine. Worked beautifully, just as described in their docs.

Exploring options about how I could use yunohost for the localhosting tool I am trying to build, I thought about building a docker image that contains a freshly installed yunohost instance. Looking for that however, I came across runtipi (opens in a new window).

Just as yunohost, it’s a user-friendly out-of-the-box management tool, but doesn’t come with its own packaging format, and instead integrates with docker. This seems much closer to what I was looking for, or at least to where I want a localhosting solution to be headed at. I will have to look deeper into it, but it states itself as “home-server management” tool, for users without extensive technical knowledge. I think it doesn’t perfectly align with my localhosting vision yet, but it ticks a lot of the boxes! Future tasks for me will be to dig deeper into it, find out what’s still missing and try to integrate with it (or if there is not enough left to do, try to contribute there :)).