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   vorlon (vorlon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 01:56:35 JST vorlon

   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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     vorlon (vorlon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 01:56:35 JST vorlon

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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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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 01:56:35 JST silverwizard

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     @vorlon I had an ansible playbook for Friendica but it was kinda too small to be useful to me, either config the vars or the instance, and knowing the guts matters
     
     My instance from ~2016 with 6 users is ~40 gb of database and object storage