Reading earlier comments in this community made me consider documenting the workings of my homelab to some extent, ie. docker configuration, credentials, ports and links of my services. I’ve tried it to make it consistent and organised but it still feels half baked and insufficient. Everyone suggests documenting everything you do in your homelab but don’t state how. Since I’ve hardly had experience running my own server, I would really appreciate observing the blueprint of some other fellow selfhoster for copying or taking inspiration from rather than considering the note taking to be ‘left as an exercise for the reader’.


I’ve got a bunch of notes in Trilium.
I have a note for each service with the docker compose file, notes on backups, any weirdness with the setup, and when I update each service.
I also have a note for the initial setup of my server (mostly setting up docker, setting up mergerfs and snapraid).
Other than that, I have one note for each device for my setup. (Wifi AP, OPNsense router, switch, etc) That I populate with random crap I might need to know later.