--- title: Personal infrastructure setup 2026 | daily.dev description: A decade-long journey of self-hosting personal services culminates in a streamlined setup using Incus for container orchestration, OpenTofu for declarative... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026-udt7xi56k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Personal infrastructure setup 2026 | daily.dev og:description: A decade-long journey of self-hosting personal services culminates in a streamlined setup using Incus for container orchestration, OpenTofu for declarative... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026-udt7xi56k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UDT7Xi56k.png og:image:alt: Personal infrastructure setup 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Personal infrastructure setup 2026 **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A decade-long journey of self-hosting personal services culminates in a streamlined setup using Incus for container orchestration, OpenTofu for declarative infrastructure management, and a WireGuard tunnel to expose services through a VPS. The infrastructure runs on mixed hardware (2012 NAS, Intel and AMD NUCs) with a flat network topology, hosting everything from email and blogs to media services. Services are deployed as LXC containers, VMs, or OCI containers, with persistent data on NAS and static sites synced via Syncthing to /srv directories for simple publishing without CI/CD overhead. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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