I just pushed through to about 3/4s in and am once again hooked. The beginning was a bit of a slog compared to the first two books pace.

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan.

The first two books flew by. Things are changing a bit. I’m still having fun but Im going to take a WoT breather after this one.

This. In addition, I’ve read that it’s best practice to make adding and removing services less of a pain.

You’re not messing with stacks that benefit from extended uptime just to mess around with a few new projects. Considering my wife uses networks that the homelab influences, it would be a smarter choice for me long term to change things up.

I wouldn’t change anything, I like fixing things as I go. Doing things right the first time is only nice when I know exactly what I’m doing!

That being said, in my current enviroment, I made a mistake when I discovered docker compose. I saw how wonderfully simply it made deployment and helped with version control and decided to dump every single service into one singular docker-compose.yaml. I would separate services next time into at least their relevant categories for ease of making changes later.

Better yet I would automate deployment with Ansible… But that’s my next step in learning and I can fix both mistakes while I go next time!