this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
12 points (92.9% liked)

Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.

11410 readers
2 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules

Important

Beginning of January 1st 2024 this rule WILL be enforced. Posts that are not tagged will be warned and if not fixed within 24h then removed!

Cross-posting

If you see a rule-breaker please DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I'm looking at the official docs but I'm a bit confused. I want to install Lemmy on a VPS but the fourth bullet point in the documentation says:

"Install Ansible on your local machine (do not install it on your destination server)."

And then the Install instructions start going about how to install it.

If Ansible is on my local machine how am I supposed to use it to install Lemmy on a VPS?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ansible works over SSH. You install Ansible on your local machine and it connects over SSH to run the playback.

To your VPS it looks like a user has logged in and is running commands. It's very useful for remote management of thousands of servers because you don't need to install anything, they just need to have SSH enabled.