I’ve been slowly moving along in this self-hosting journey and now have a number of services that I regularly use and depend on. Of course I’m backing things up, but I also still worry about screwing up my server and having to rollback/rebuild/fix whatever got messed up.

I’m just curious, for those of you with home labs, do you use a testing environment of some kind or do you just push whatever your working on straight to "production

  • edit: grammar
  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    18 hours ago

    My latest project runs on a VM I use vscode’s ssh editing feature on. I edit the only copy of the file in existence (I have made no backup and there is no version control) and then I restart the systems service.

    So what if I mess it up? Big deal. The discord bot goes down for a few minutes and I fix it.

    Same goes for the machine configs. Ideally the machines are stable, the critical ones get backups, and if they aren’t stable then I suppose the best way to fix it would be in prod ( my VMs run debian, they’re stable).