[spurgu]

> From a server point of view, I think a raspberry pi build that scripted most of the setup, is an achievable goal. Not an easy one, but doable.

Yes! I'm thinking something like standardizing Docker deployments with nginx-proxy[0] (which takes care of automatic Let's Encrypt certificates, it Just Works™[1]). If everyone shipped a docker-compose.yml tailored to nginx-proxy this would make it very easy for anyone to deploy stuff on their home server.

Then you'd need a standardized interactive install script that asks for things like hostname, email details, whatever else needed in .env (or whatever config). Perhaps a good ol' Makefile?

  make setup      # interactive install
  make up         # run docker-compose up -d
  make down       # run docker-compose down
  make uninstall  # uninstall, plus clean up volumes and images

People would just need to learn how to (after installing Docker, which is trivial) git clone a repo and then run those commands and go to the URL and finish the setup (if relevant).

[0] https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

[1] This is how I deploy all my Docker stuff, it usually takes from 1-5 minutes to modify docker-compose.yml to fit