I'm starting to flirt with the idea of setting up my own mastodon or #calckey instance. General rhetoric around server administration is off-putting; huge server requirements, moderation time sink, etc.
https://n00q.net/articles/guide-mastodon-hometown/ is the first guide I've seen that puts a price tag on it. 50GiB database + 250GiB object store is a pretty manageable cost.
That guide is also way too manual for me.
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Too much twiddling of config files directly. I've been doing Linux distribution packages for 25 years, if I'm going to do this I'm going to do it in a way that other admins can benefit from my effort.
So what's the state of the art out there for automation of Fediverse services? Are there snaps/debs/flatpaks for any of the servers? Recipes for orchestrating the various services with ansible/puppet/chef/juju?
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@vorlon @liw I do believe that @waffles may have something more automated, and likely also @packetcat and @aphyr ..?
@gnomon @vorlon @liw @waffles @packetcat I'm doing everything by hand like it's 2001 haha
@aphyr @vorlon @liw @waffles @packetcat your observability metrics & dashboards are Titan-tier tho