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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

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

No testing environment in my home lab so far.

But on the other hand, no planned builds either. Just fiddling around til it works.

I am currently planning for new hardware, and then doing it all with build scripts there, as fully automated as possible. The whole setup, from scratch. But for that I need to do some learning first.

So the new hardware is going to be it's own test environment for a good while, until it turns into production.