Done. And appreciate the guidance.

Rasputin will let you take a bunch of random hardware (Pi, TuringPI, LattePanda, an old laptop, etc), homogenize them, and allow you to run apps like Home Assistant, Vault Warden, etc. on them. It takes a few minutes to get up and running and has built in DNS, Certificate Authority, Tailnet, Docker deployment, an observability stack, and supports a/b updates. AGPL license.

Basically, I was sick of always having to recreate that stack every time I rebuilt the home lab. Now it’s all baked in and flashes machines with a single bash script - managed through the control plane ui.

And my first post and I already forgot the disclosure: https://github.com/geekdojo/rasputin-os/blob/main/AI_DISCLOSURE.md

I use Azure Storage Accounts - costs about $0.76 for 37GB per month. I’m still using an old Synology DS918+ but it backs up automatically to the Storage account every day. If you go that route, be sure to edit the network configuration, set it to only access from “selected networks”, and then put in your home IP or CIDR. Use that and an access token so you have at least two controls preventing the internet from accessing it.