Mother of All Infra Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for Mother of All Infra, a personal monorepo for self-hosted infrastructure managed with Nix, Ansible, and Terraform.

Documentation Map

Hypervisor

Documentation for the self-hosted hypervisor:

• Plan — Disk inventory, btrfs RAID1 profiles, USB keyfile boot, network bridge and NFS setup, and NixOS repository architecture overview
• Operations — Day-to-day operations: VM lifecycle, btrfs scrub/check, disk expansion and replacement, and troubleshooting

Backups

Documentation for backup operations and restore procedures.

Nix

Infrastructure-as-code configurations for NixOS and Home Manager:

• Network — Overview of the network setup
• Full Disk Encryption — Setting up and managing full disk encryption on NixOS hosts

Ansible

Deployment and orchestration documentation:

Application Stacks

Detailed guides for container-based application stacks deployed via Ansible roles:

• Alloy — Grafana Alloy observability stack
• Backbone — Core backbone services
• Databases — Database services configuration
• Dawarich — Location tracking service
• Immich — Self-hosted photo management
• Matrix — Matrix messaging server deployment
• Minecraft — Minecraft server setup
• Monitoring — Monitoring and observability stack
• Nextcloud — Nextcloud suite configuration
• ntfy — Notification service setup
• Paperless — Document management system
• Speedtest Tracker — Network speed monitoring
• Streaming — Media streaming services
• Syncthing — File synchronization service

Quick Links

• Repository: GitHub - mother-of-all-infra
• Main README: See the project root for general project information
• Ansible README: ansible/README.md for playbook and role details
• Dev Guide: Check copilot-instructions.md in .github/ for developer workflows