Reading earlier comments in this community made me consider documenting the workings of my homelab to some extent, ie. docker configuration, credentials, ports and links of my services. I’ve tried to make it consistent and organised but it still feels half baked and insufficient. Everyone suggests documenting everything you do in your homelab but don’t state how. Since I’ve hardly had experience running my own server, I would really appreciate observing the blueprint of some other fellow selfhoster for copying or taking inspiration from rather than considering documentation to be ‘left as an exercise for the reader’.
Edit: I already have a note-taking solution with me. What I wish to ask is to know what needs to be documented and what the structure of the documentation should be to accommodate the information.


I’m not real clear what exactly you need to document.
Infrastructure documentation starts with an IPAM.
A good IPAM can help you document all kinds of stuff.
I use NetBox.
https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox?tab=readme-ov-file#getting-started
I’m running it as a Docker container on a Linux VM.
I just looked at their latest screenshots, and it appears they’ve done quite a bit with it since I stood up my copy.
It does even more now. I’ll have to upgrade.
Yeah,Netbox is also my main solution, combined with forgejo repo.
Works very well.