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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I test stuff on my laptop or desktop and then push it to my NAS. Everything is also containerized and snapshotted, so risk of breaking anything is pretty small.
Also, I’ll have it run on my boot drive in “prod” for a bit before exposing it to my RAID, just in case there’s some weird issue on shared data. Switching it is just a copy + changing the container volumes.