GitLab

A self-hosted GitLab instance hosting two projects: this homelab’s own Ansible code, and Sonixd Redux (plus its development branch), a Subsonic-compatible music client. Keeping it self-hosted means full control over CI runners and storage limits without depending on a third-party plan, and a place to revert to any previous commit if something breaks.

Sonixd Redux has a full CI/CD pipeline that runs tests and builds the app, used to validate changes before they’re pushed to GitHub for users to actually download.

The sonixd_redux_code_backup and sonixd_redux_devel_code_backup roles don’t touch GitLab’s own data at all, they tar.gz the local working directory on disk where the code is actually developed (~/Documents/git/sonixd-redux and its -devel counterpart) and ship the archive to both NAS targets, keeping the 5 most recent archives each. Both are run by hand, on demand, as part of a broader manual backup sweep rather than on a cron schedule. GitLab’s own data, repos, issues, CI history, is covered separately: the whole Docker host VM is captured in Proxmox’s nightly backup to PBS.