Synology is like Ubiquity in the self-hosted community: sure it’s self-hosted, but it’s definitely not yours. End of the day you get to deal with their decisions.

Terramaster lets you run your own OS on their machine. That’s basically what a homelabber wants: a good chassis and components. I couldn’t see a reason to buy a Synology after Terramaster and Ugreen started ramping out their product lines which let you run whatever OS you wanted. Synology at this point is for people who either don’t know what they’re doing or want to remain hands-off with storage management (which is valid; you don’t want to do more work when you get home for work). Unfortunately, such customers are now out in the lurch, so TrueNAS or trust some other company to hold your data safe.

Well it’s a tougher question to answer when it’s an active-active config rather than a master slave config because the former would need minimum latency possible as requests are bounced all over the place. For the latter, I’ll probably set up to pull every 5 minutes, so 5 minutes of latency (assuming someone doesn’t try to push right when the master node is going down).

I don’t think the likes of Github work on a master-slave configuration. They’re probably on the active-active side of things for performance. I’m surprised I couldn’t find anything on this from Codeberg though, you’d think they have already solved this problem and might have published something. Maybe I missed it.

I didn’t find anything in the official git book either, which one do you recommend?

Thanks for the comment. There’s no special use-case: it’ll just be me and a couple of friends using it anyway. But I would like to make it highly available. It doesn’t need to be 5 - 2 or 3 would be fine too but I don’t think the number would change the concept.

Ideally I’d want all servers to be updated in real-time, but it’s not necessary. I simply want to run it like so because I want to experience what the big cloud providers run for their distributed git services.

Thanks for the idea about update hooks, I’ll read more about it.

Well the other choice was Reddit so I decided to post here (Reddit flags my IP and doesn’t let me create an account easily). I might ask on a couple of other forums too.

Thanks

I think I messed up my explanation again.

The load-balancer in front of my git servers doesn’t really matter. I can use whatever, really. What matters is: how do I make sure that when the client writes to a repo in one of the 5 servers, the changes are synced in real-time to the other 4 as well? Running rsync every 0.5 second doesn’t seem to be a viable solution

Apologies for not explaining better. I want to run a loadbalancer in front of multiple instances of a git server. When my client performs an action like a pull or a push, it will go to one of the 5 instances, and the changes will then be synced to the rest.

I have edited the post to hopefully make my thoughts a bit more clear

Man, ReThink is such a lifesaver. It’s so good people at Graphene recommend it. I might give Qubes some bucks too, they are awesome

I suggest SOPS

With the new leadership I am doubtful on how long that will last. One of the better things that came of Scholz’s era

Which other projects caught your attention? I was going to donate to Graphene, EFF and some TOR operators

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/first-repository/

Follow this, should suffice

The problem is, European leaders are sacks of shit too. They don’t care either.

1. Create git repo
2. Put all config in git repo
3. Create repo on codeberg
4. Clone git repo to both VPS and laptop

No extra money needed

Ooh, would it be similar on other Linux distros/Unixes? I’m trying to decide between Debian, VyOS, Alpine and OpenBSD for my main firewall. All of them have strengths but I think it’ll be between VyOS and OpenBSD for me.

True, a commodity all-in-one-box running OpenWRT, or an SBC that supports it would work perfectly, except maybe for a lack of ports

Thank you. Now I just need to learn to do all of this on Linux/BSD lol

Ah, I see. Thanks

Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean by “ARP bridges L1 and L2”. I’ll have to read more about this. Other than that, I understand what you said.

Thank you so much for the explanation. I followed everything but:

Untagged (sometimes called Access) is something you apply on a switch port. For example, if you assign a port to Untagged VLAN 32, anything connected to that port will only be able to connect to port 32.

I couldn’t really understand what you meant here. Did you mean VLAN 32 in the last line?

Thanks, but isn’t ARP contained inside a subnet? I guess you could find everything if you inspected the MAC table of the main switch

I see, I was completely off-track lol. But isn’t this really for a setup where each computer is connected to an individual port of the switch? I.E. this won’t work if to one port of an L3 switch one were to attach a dumb 5 port switch and plug 4 computers in