Self Host Blocks

SHB's (Self Host Blocks) is yet another server management tool whose goal is to provide better building blocks for self-hosting. Indeed, SHB provides opinionated building blocks fitting together to self-host any service you'd want. Some common services are provided out of the box. SHB's goal is to make these building blocks plug-and-play. To achieve this, SHB pioneers contracts that allow you, the final user, to be more in control of which pieces go where. The promise here is to let you choose, for example, any reverse proxy you want or any database you want, without requiring work from maintainers of the services you want to self-host. To achieve all this, SHB is using the full power of NixOS modules and NixOS VM tests. Indeed, each building block and each service is a NixOS module using modules defined in Nixpkgs and they are tested using full VMs on every commit.