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Intro

Hello again! In my last blog post, I showed you my CI/CD pipeline running on GitHub Actions and Jenkins on my home server. However, I didn’t discuss my home server in detail. This post is dedicated to my home server: what’s set up on it and how you can replicate the same setup.

Motivation

The main purpose of the home server is to help me learn CI and CD. That’s it. I wanted a place where I can deploy my programs and monitor them over time to see how they perform. I believe this is a crucial step for every developer in their learning journey. If you think that programmers only write code, you won’t go far in your professional career.

Hardware

The hardware of the system isn’t anything special. I’m running an Intel Pentium Gold series with a modest 2 cores and 2 threads. It’s not fast. I have it set up with 2 sticks of 4GB RAM that I got very cheap from the secondhand market, and it’s running with a secondhand hard drive from a used laptop. This machine is a Frankenstein, and I love it. It proves that old hardware can be reused and recycled ♻️.

This machine was my old daily driver until my video card died on me. It was a fantastic GTS 780 Ti that had Titan firmware. It was the bomb. Literally.

Operating System

The machine is running the latest version of Ubuntu. PS: Linux nerds, don’t be harsh on me! I’m a noob when it comes to home servers and what operating system to choose for different use cases. So, I went with Ubuntu because it’s the most commonly used Linux-based operating system. And I do recommend it if you’re new to Linux. The Internet is filled with Ubuntu tutorials and documentation, so you’ll do just fine using it.

Software

Jenkins

For software, I’m not running much. My main goal for this machine is to learn CI and CD, so Jenkins is a must-have. When setting up the server, I searched for an easier way to deploy and create pipelines because I thought Jenkins was too advanced for beginners. This led me to find Coolify, a very easy-to-use Vercel alternative. Coolify is, in their own words, “An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.” However, I had a lot of trouble setting up even a basic deployment from GitHub, so I decided to use the industry standard for pipelines: Jenkins. I’ll link to Coolify because I do think it has potential, but for now, it’s just not at the level of Vercel or Netlify.

Jenkins is installed locally on the Ubuntu machine and is not running as a container, which I recommend for starters—just install it locally. The container version of Jenkins has some quirks that aren’t present when working with a local installation.

Docker

Docker is a must-have for me. When I design my projects (like Volts), I tend to lean toward containerization, mainly because it’s simple, scalable, and works well with the CI/CD paradigm. However, I do have plans to use it to run more than just my programs as containers on this machine.

Twingate

Twingate is the zero-trust VPN that I’m using. When deploying my programs, I don’t forward them to the web; I just use a VPN to connect to them. This approach lets me focus on the CI/CD part rather than the security part. Server security is a huge subject and is something for another time.

SonarQube

SonarQube is a container-based application for code quality and testing. I’m running SonarQube for my Spring applications and plan to make it work for my front-end projects as well.

Well, that’s it for now! That’s my home server and what I’m running on it. I’ll keep working on it because I enjoy configuring it just the way I like.

Links

Coolify: Coolify

VPN: Twingate: It’s time to ditch your VPN

Jenkins: Jenkins

Code Quality, Security & Static Analysis Tool with SonarQube | Sonar (sonarsource.com)