Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host.

For people asking "ok but what is it":

Built on the shoulders of the giants that are NixOS and K3s, Homelabinator is an opinionated customization of NixOS

Also you should test your site on mobile. It's half broken for me.

Great idea, really good name.

I looked at the back end source.

1. Do I understand correctly that when I run your app in my PC, the ISO is built on your server and then I download it?

2. Why does app.py submit an ip address to a google form?

https://github.com/homelabinator/homelabinator-backend/blob/main/api/app.py

You should know, stuff like that is going keep a lot of self hosters from recommending this.

So Deployrr. But vibe coded and worse.

Looks vibe coded AF, is it ?

How is it easier than yunohost?

OP, I took a cursory run through of the site. Looks good. Could really have potential for those just dipping their toes in the self hosting pool. I haven't tested the ISO created tho. One thing, Tailscale client id & secret. I'm not sure I would want to disclose that on an unknown website, because of privacy issues. I understand why you included it, but it seems like an brief explanation as to how to do that manually, once the ISO is deployed, for those who might have some of the same reservations. Perhaps I overlooked that if it exists. Otherwise it looks like it would be a great introductory to self hosting.

Onward and upward.

ETA: I like the name too.

Been using a similar project with friends, inspired by how Yunhost does manifests, and uses Tailscale / your Headscale

Is basically just a layer / scripting between Proxmox and Kubernetes for homelabbing

Doesn't require a custom ISO and is just a post install script on Proxmox.

auto ssl setup for all services with friendly URLs on your domain, control plane with Terraform-like declarative definitions for your lab

It's helped us a lot, but it's not something we have had time to tackle all the work involved to make it something valuable for others when everyone does homelabbing so differently.

The cons:

• It's opinionated in its setup.
• Certain tools like Nginx Proxy Manager+Adgaurd, and certain self hosted tools for uptime and resource usage monitor/alerts are not trivial to change to use what you prefer
• only tested with machines above certain specs, no arm support.
• new machines / (even compute nodes) all have to be proxmox
• Adding new machines and deciding what runs where to be optimal is not a beginner friendly decision, and likely needs community support and tooling around that, if it's aimed at beginners

To do this properly is a big job, so hope this project works out for you as I like to see more community and people supporting each other with thier setups

I'm not fond of what makes it easier to set up a homelab. Because it might give the impression that you can run it with very little skills. And that opens the door to making your setup a netbot.

Clicking on "Add" just gives a contextless "this only works on desktop" with no explanation of why or why not. About doesn't really explain why either. Could use a more helpful message there.

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