how to start self hosting 🚀

in this article we will be setting up a raspberry pi server and installing docker and portainer on it. so you can selfhost your own services on it.

First Steps

• install the raspbian os on your sd card. you can follow this tutorial from 2:25 ⏩ prep the Raspberry Pi.
• connect the raspberry pi to your wifi network.
• ssh into the raspberry pi using the ssh command.

ssh pi@ipaddress

• update and upgrade the system using the command below.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

• and reboot the system.

sudo reboot

congratulations you have now installed the raspberry pi.

• now you can install the following software.

sudo apt install git
sudo apt install nvim
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installing docker

to install docker, clone this repo and run the install script.

git clone https://github.com/Ayman-s-Lab/selfhosted-pi.git
cd selfhosted-pi/installation-scripts
chmod +rx docker.sh
./docker.sh

Remember to logout/reboot for the changes to take effect.

logout

ssh into the raspberry pi again

installing portainer

portainer is a web application that can be used to manage and easily deploy your docker containers .

to install portainer, open th installation-scripts folder and run the install script.

cd installation-scripts
chmod +rx portainer.sh
./portainer.sh

yeah, now you can access portainer at http://ipaddress:9000 .

you created a new administrator user and chose docker as a container env aaand you are ready to go🎆.

Click Settings, in the bottom-left corner, and paste the Portainer v2 json file link from below into the "App Templates" box.
this is the one i use for my portainer.
i will create my own soon.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ntv-one/portainer/main/template.json

You're done! Now just click App Templates and deploy applications!

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