- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
I recently discovered yunohost, a French project for easy selfhosting. Does anyone have experience with that?
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Nice as a starting point, but not enough features to make it worth it for advanced setups.
What do you miss?
Ability to properly work with apps outside the officially recommended list, to customize Docker containers etc.
At least from what I can recall from 1-1,5 years ago that I used it.
Yunohost has been recommended to me a couple of years ago and this is a software that brought me into #selfhosting.
Thanks to Yunohost’s application catalog, I got familiar with quite a few interesting applications, learnt about their capabilities, and I still use many of them today, such as Hedgedoc and Wallabag. In addition, Yunohost makes it easy to manage domains or reverse proxies. I currently work as SysOps/SysAdmin/DevOps and when I choose to deploy an application, I opt for something I have more control over, but without yunohost I would never have stepped into this career path. I continue to use yunohost on my main server, which is a bastion of stability for me, but I test new apps and host them on a separate server. In Yunohost, on the other hand, I install the Redirect application to conveniently have access to them outside my network.
Elena Rossini, well known for her help in growing the Fediverse, raves about Yunohost, https://news.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/. You should be fine using it.
Used for years, then moved into docker containers.
It’s pretty rad, especially as a domain controller.
Been using it for 10+ years. Love it.
Never heard of it till now, now I’m going to try it out!
Use it everyday. I self host a number of fedi services. It’s a great os.
Most of the apps are great, but there are a couple that are no longer maintained.
Looks good. But I got burnt with CasaOS. Only App organizer I still use is dockge.
what do you meant with burnt? i thought its even easier than yunohost?
Burnt my fingers. It’s not enough freedom for changing compose settings. But that’s just my two cents.
thats true. when I tried it I even found it more difficult because of the limite. you must trust the scripts and if something does not work its a lot more complicated than setting it up by yourself.
+1 for dockge. But that’s something for later. Yunohost is a great way to get a feeling for selfhosting.
I was searching for something like this! Seems really promising, I’ll check it, thanks!
I run Dokploy which is like yunohost but a little bit more advanced.
Elena Rossini (@_elena@mastodon.social) is a journalist who’s gotten into the fediverse and self hosting with Yuno Host. She’s documented it on her blog. It’s worked out really well for her.
And they just boosted https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@yunohost/114431095460107487
Des, it has, what most others lack: Single Sign In and many Apps.
Coincidentally, there’s this post today about Yunohost: https://my-place.social/display/db471d1f-c06c03be288f78d7-ad573aef
I did some testing with it, because I believe more people should be able to self-host.
I like how it is implemented. It has good support for email. Many apps support SSO.
The critical part to me is how up-to-date applications are. I started a small project to automate version tracking, check out:
https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/app/nextcloud.html
; so for example, the YunoHost Nextcloud app does not lag much behind upstream. My intention with this is to let people see that they have been updating Nextcloud dilligently for two years; they might pull the plug tomorrow, but it’s a good track record.
(I’d like to add scrapers to other projects similar to YunoHost. My ultimate goal would be to be able to choose a list of apps you’d like to self-host, and see which projects like YunoHost carry the applications you want, and compare how they track updates.)
I really like it. Yes, you have way more control by using docker/nixos/etc of course, but for things like seafile or nextcloud, yunohost does the good ol’ 80% job with 20% of the effort and time, at least for me.
