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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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[–] morpheus17pro@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

In my case, yes. My setup is managed using Ansible playbooks, so I have a dev inventory and a playbook that spins up a virtualized environment that mimics (as much as possible, as there are a few details that cannot be fully replicated) my home lab.

That way, I usually prepare my new setups on dev, and then deploy on my pro setup and test with the few aspects I cannot reproduce in dev.

Finally, I have everything backed by a (private) git repo.