I’m a lazy sysadim at home, here’s what I do. I run proxmox on my server at home and provision with VM images, like we did in the ancient times. I take regula

I’m a lazy sysadim at home, here’s what I do. I run proxmox on my server at home and provision with VM images, like we did in the ancient times. I take regular backups of any extra storage I attach. I can restore any individual box in an hour or two. It’s no high-availability but it’s good enough for home. I also have an image for docker-compose like the sibling comment and run anything that “just works” in docker that way. Someday I might write some lazy terraform to better separate the concerns of VMs and infrastructure, but it’s not a priority. Proxmox is, in the scheme of things, pretty easy to use. If you can manage instances and images on a VPS you’re most of the way there. Edit: I also have half a dozen shell scripts that do some basic setup things. These would be replaced by terraform if I ever get around to that.