Self-hosted Compose Stacks

Docker Compose files for the services I actually run, with notes on why each one looks the way it does — the trade-offs, the things that broke once, the settings that aren't obvious from the upstream docs.

Every stack is standalone. You need Docker and nothing else: no OMV, no Kubernetes, no particular distro.

Maintained by Goyban — I make videos about self-hosting, NAS, Linux and the terminal. TODO: YouTube link

These stacks run on the setup documented in TODO: link to Homelab repo.

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Usage

git clone TODO:_repo_url && cd <repo>
cd jellyfin
cp .env.example .env
$EDITOR .env            # set paths, ports, timezone
docker compose up -d

Each service directory is self-contained: a compose.yaml, a .env.example, and a README.md explaining the choices.

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Services

Every service publishes a plain HTTP port. TLS, domains and authentication are handled separately — see Exposing services.

Service	Port	Notes
jellyfin	8096	Media streaming. Also 7359/udp for auto-discovery
openwebui	3033	LLM chat UI, talks to an external model backend
owui-ollama	3034	Open WebUI bundled with Ollama
overleaf	8020	LaTeX editor. Needs Mongo + Redis

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Exposing services

Nothing in a compose file here is proxy-aware, so you can put whatever you like in front:

• Reverse proxy with Caddy — subdomain + automatic TLS. The default choice.
• Cloudflare Tunnel — no open ports, no VPS. Good for light services; not for media streaming or large uploads — the doc explains why.
• Single sign-on with Authentik — OIDC where the app supports it, forward auth where it doesn't.

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Conventions

A few rules that keep the stacks consistent and safe to publish:

• Data lives outside the repo. Paths come from ${DATA_PATH} in .env, so a clone never fills up with application state and git status stays clean.
• Secrets live in .env, which is git-ignored. Only .env.example is committed, with placeholders.
• Shared settings have defaults; host-specific ones fail loudly. PUID, PGID, TZ and ports are written ${PUID:-1000} in the compose file, so a fresh clone runs with no .env at all. Three layers can set them, in increasing priority: the default in compose.yaml, the service's .env, then anything exported in your shell — so a global export PUID=… in ~/.profile keeps working and overrides both. Values that cannot have a sensible default — a media path, a render group GID — use ${VAR:?message} instead and abort with an explanation rather than silently interpolating an empty string.
• The repo ignores by default — everything inside a service directory is ignored except compose.yaml, .env.example and README.md. A new service can't leak a database by accident.
• No version: key — obsolete in Compose v2.
• LinuxServer.io images where they fit. lscr.io/linuxserver/* images all speak the same dialect: PUID/PGID/TZ for ownership and time, /config for state, s6 as init, a shared base rebuilt on a regular cadence. Learn one and you've learned the family — worth more across a dozen stacks than tuning each image separately. Where a project ships a strong first-party image (Open WebUI, Overleaf), I use that instead.

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Adding a service

cp -r _template <service>

Then follow the checklist at the top of _template/README.md.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.