Hi all,
I must say: ChatGPT (or generative AI in general) is such a game changer for me doing SelfHosting.
Today, I wrote following scripts with GenAI:
- A bash script, that logins in all my LXC container on Proxmox, stops all currently running docker container, exports all persistent docker data to my Proxmox-Host, starts the Container again, and makes a backup via Borg. Afterwards, I get a success notification via Gotify.
- A python script, that uses the Portainer API to export the stack configuration of all my 10 docker environments into easy to backup .yml files ( e.g. backup-host_name-container_name.yml )
- A bash scripts, that checks if the defined containers are running on my docker hosts, and if not, sends a notification to Healthcheck.io
- Different Templates for Obsidian, e.g. Daily / Weekly / Monthly notes with Task-Management etc.
It’s really fun, as I now can find solutions to more complex problems, with just limited program knowledge. Not perfect yet, e.g. it used the Portainer API wrong, and I had to direct it to the right direction via “error messages” and “API documentations”.Sometimes, it also say’s “it’s not possible”, but when you gave some hints (e.g. could you use pct exec instead of ssh) it gives you the right solution .
What are your experiences? Are you using GenAI for your SelfHosting and if yes - where?
My next step will be Ansible, as I had to much respect for it yet, but with some GenAI support I might get everything running …
against the grain opinion: once you reach a certain level, it’s actually a lot slower to get gpt to generate code for you and then go through the slog of proofreading its obvious errors, and scary non-obvious ones. i gave it a try for a period of time because of the praise it was receiving for automation, but i wouldn’t really trust it for non-basic code gen. great for explainers though.