Docker Home Server

a personal, docker-based home server project

Objectives

Build a multi-purpose, linux-based home server based on legacy hardware for

Media streaminng
Network storage
Network administration
Programming tools

Basics

Several Raspberry PIs and a NAS were already in place at my household. I wasn't satisfied with the performance and the maintenance effort of this devices and decided to build an all-in-one-machine for all my use-cases in mind.

Hardware Recommendation

2-4 core amd64 CPU. 64bit is recommended, since future Ubuntu versions will not support 32bit anymore.
at least 4 GB RAM
mainboard with SATA and fast LAN adapter
SSD for OS and docker images
tons of NAS HDDs

Core Software Installation

Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS 64bit

Download and install as described at https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server. OpenSSH packages are included by default. I decided to use Ubuntu since I am already familiar with the desktop version of it and some other Debian derivates.

If you want to run your own DNS server (as a pi-hole docker container), please follow these steps:

  netstat -nlpt | grep 53

If yes, then stop and disable this service

 systemctl stop systemd-resolved
 systemctl disable systemd-resolved.service
 systemctl stop systemd-resolved

Do not forget to add your host name to the hostname to /etc/hosts

  nano /etc/hosts

Add your host name to the first and second line of this file

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost <your-host>
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 <your-host>6

# The following lines are for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Save with ^X and 'Y'

Docker

Setup script follows soon...

  apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
  curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | apt-key add -
  add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
  apt update
  apt install docker_ce

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