My home lab has a mild amount of complexity and Iโ€™d like practice some good habits about documenting it. Stuff like, what each system does, the OS, any notable software installed and, most importantly, any documentation around configuration or troubleshooting.

i.e. I have an internal SMTP relay that uses a letsencrypt SSL cert that I need to use the DNS challenge to renew. Iโ€™ve got the steps around that sitting in a Google Doc. Iโ€™ve got a couple more google docs like that.

I donโ€™t want to get super complicated but Iโ€™d like something a bit more structured than a folder full of google docs. Iโ€™d also like to pull it in-house.

Thanks

Edit: I appreciate all the feedback Iโ€™ve gotten on this post so far. There have been a lot of tools suggested and some great discussion about methods. This will probably be my weekend now.

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Iโ€™d like to document what I have, and what I need to do it spin it back up with minimal effort should I need to. Esp, anything thatโ€™s unique to my setup or that I did to work around a problem. Iโ€™ve shot myself in the foot many a time where I go back to something 6 months later and Iโ€™ve long since forgotten what I did. So, if itโ€™s not commented in a config Iโ€™m figuring it out all over again.

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