Sovereign: Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud
This is a pretty cool setup! I have been tinkering in the self-hosting world for awhile now and I would say my biggest piece of advice is to learn Docker. (Not trying to shill for Docker here or start a Docker vs. Ansible flame war.) In my personal experience, Docker images (and docker-compose orchestrations) are more pervasive than Ansible playbooks and when it comes to self-hosting for personal use, hosting all my services in Docker has made it much easier to deploy&#x2F;maintain them. (Not speaking to business use cases since in that situation you should really have a deep familiarity with your tech stack and be able to roll-your-own Ansible playbook&#x2F;Dockerfiles.)<p>Also, there are so many great FLOSS alternatives to Google Apps. This repo contains some, but here are some of my favorites:<p>* Drive&#x2F;Calendar&#x2F;Photos&#x2F;Keep:<p><pre><code>  - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextcloud.com&#x2F; (I prefer this over OwnCloud)
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* Docs&#x2F;Sheets&#x2F;Slides<p><pre><code>  - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onlyoffice.com&#x2F;
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* Mail<p><pre><code>  - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mailu.io&#x2F; (basically a Docker-based deployment of Postfix&#x2F;Dovecot&#x2F;etc)
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* Hangouts<p><pre><code>  - Server - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.org&#x2F;

  - Client - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.riot.im&#x2F;

  - (I prefer Matrix.org over Jabber&#x2F;XMPP)
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* G+&#x2F;Twitter<p><pre><code>  - https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmastodon.org&#x2F;</code></pre>