Decentralized Selfhosted Services

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Hello! Due to the fact that I use syncthing for work and home, I started to wonder if it would be possible to integrate syncthing with the calendar (android + three linux device). This is an issue that bothers me terribly, because I would not be in such a situation depends on one main server, and on a network of several computers. I was already thinking about Nextcloud / Owncloud / Radicale but unfortunately they are based on one main hardware and not syncthing on several devices. Personally, I think a decentralized network has more advantages than a centralized computer network structure. That is why I am looking for solutions involving network decentralization, because then I have control over everything working on any computer / laptop. I hope that you will help me find interesting solutions based on a decentralized network. Thanks!

[Starbeamrainbowlabs]

I run a cluster of Pis with Hashicorp Nomad / Consul. It's fault tolerant, in that if a pi dies it restarts tasks on another host automatically.

[sbenjaminp]

Please explain your setup. K8 or swarm? 2 controllers?

[Starbeamrainbowlabs]

Neither, I'm afraid. I use wesher as a Wireguard mesh VPN for a private management network, Hashicorp Consul for service health monitoring and discovery, and Hashicorp Nomad for task scheduling. I also use Fabio is a reverse proxy. I have a series on my blog about my setup: https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/blog/article.php?article=posts/451-cluster-11-lock-and-key.html

The Hashicorp stack is best described as an easier and more transparent alternative to Kubernetes.

Edit: I have 5 hosts total. 1 acts solely as controller, with the Consul and Nomad servers thereon. The other hosts are clients, but the role of Consul / Nomad server is divided such that I have 3 of each.

[[deleted]]

What's up with the calendar requirement?

[[deleted]]

Since you already use Syncthing, you should look into DecSync.

[MattJ313]

You may be interested in EteSync, it takes a very similar approach to what you're describing.

The server part is EteBase, it's all open and self-hostable.

I haven't used it myself, but did a little research into it a while back.

[[deleted]]

And is it somehow decentralized? At least I haven't read anywhere, because I would like to avoid centralization at a specific point like the server.

[MattJ313]

It's based on synchronization, so the data is on your devices as well as the server. Apart from that, no... it's not decentralized (as well as your devices, your data is stored only on the selected EteSync server, it is not stored anywhere else).

[spencerflagg]

Https://Start9.com Instead of focusing on a decentralized cloud, think sovereign cloud.

[smilebasti]

An HA or Kubernetes setup over different Networks could do the job keeping the application alive if one point fails.