/self-hosted-cookbook

A cookbook, for docker-compose based recipes, for self-hosted applications and services.

Self-hosted Cookbook

If you're like me and love not only to self-host, but to constantly test new apps, you probably already discovered docker-compose as the fastest and easiest way towards that goal. There is, however, one problem: not all image authors are as great as linuxserver.io, whose docs are as simple as they should be: you just copy & paste docker-compose.yml and run docker-compose up -d and IT JUST WORKS! This is how all images should be documented! But unfortunately, it isn't!
Sometimes you have to spend a lot of time to make it work.
Hence - this repo.
The aims is to provide a ready-to-run recipes that you can just copy, paste and run.
So, without further ado, here's the current list:

How to use this cookbook

  • There are certain things that some recipes need which cannot be filled in due to security reasons.
    • example.com needs to be replaced with your own domain
    • username, password, etc. - should be replaced by your username & password
    • keys (like APP_KEY, SECRET etc.) should be regenerated using e.g. openssl rand -base64 32
  • Not all apps have been tested & described. These are marked as 🔗 (external links).

General Information

Other self-hosted sources

Ad Blockers & local DNS

Antivirus

Backup

Blogging

Bookmarks & Read Later

Other

  • Nunux Keeper 🔗 - similar to wallabag, but not as good (more complicated, less usable and doesn't have mobile apps).

Cloud & File Sharing

Cookbook

  • NextCloud Cookbook 🔗 - quite good. Can import from URL (some pages), but manually editing longer recipes is a bit of a pain (you need to add and paste every single ingredient & preparation step one-by-one).
  • recipes 🔗 - a bit complex, but feature rich food processing manager for your home (from shopping to the table). Importing doesn't seem to work as good as in the NextCloud's Cookbook (for some pages at least).

Dashboard

Docker Managers

Download Managers

E-mail

GIT

Home Automation

  • HomeAssistant
  • Beehive 🔗 - flexible event/agent & automation system
  • Huginn 🔗 - Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf.
  • Node-RED 🔗 - Low-code programming for event-driven applications
  • Kibitzr 🔗 - Personal Web Assistant

Media Managers

Monitors

Self-hosted

Other, not-fully tested

  • Staytus 🔗 - service status is updated manually!
  • cstate 🔗 - weird...
  • Glances 🔗 - resource hog
  • Netdata 🔗 - lots of stuff, nothing relevant
  • LibreNMS 🔗 - ugly

Hosted

  • statuspage.io 🔗 - same - manual process!
  • updown 🔗 - doesn't seem to have a page with multiple services' statuses...
  • healthchecks 🔗 - cron-based monitoring, no public status page, just badges
  • uptimerobot 🔗 - free is very basic, constantly nags for upgrade to paid...

Useful links

Notifications

Other

Other services

Photos

Other tested

  • Chevereto 🔗 - quite nice. No video support.
  • Lychee 🔗 - good looking, no video support.
  • PhotoShow 🔗 - seems dead and doesn't work.
  • Photosync 🔗 - paid, app, not really self-hosted, just sync.
  • OwnPhotos 🔗 - limited features, ugly & dead.
  • FileStash 🔗 - old-time-dropbox-like file manager.

Untested

Project Management

Reverse proxy & SSO

  • Authelia
  • Traefik
  • Caddy 🔗 - very good web server with reverse-proxy & automatic https.
  • Nginx Proxy Manager 🔗 - another nice solution based on the battle-tested & probably the most popular web-server - nginx. It has a pretty UI that allows to manage the services.

RSS

RSS Tools

  • PolitePol 🔗 - Create RSS where there was none
  • FetchRSS 🔗 - Create RSS for FB, Twitter, YT, and websites
  • rss-bridge 🔗 - The RSS feed for websites missing it
  • rss2full 🔗 - Transform summary feeds into full-text

Search engines

Social

Other untested

  • HumHub 🔗 - Free social network software and framework.
  • RocketChat 🔗 - The Ultimate Communication Hub.
  • Snikket 🔗 - Chat that is simple, secure, and private.
  • Jami 🔗 - Audio & video calls, screen sharing, IM.

Wiki

Other

  • Pepperminty Wiki 🔗 - wiki engine contained in a single file. Doesn't seem to have a structured navigation (tree-like menu). Subpages are supported though.
  • Wreeto 🔗 - impossible to install
  • Outline 🔗 (Original docker was impossible to use. This one allegedly works.) - It looks cool, but requires Slack to use...
  • Gollum 🔗 - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.