Self-Hosted CI/CD for Home Labs Is Complex and Poorly Documented
Developers running local home lab environments for build and test automation find that self-hosted CI/CD tools are complex to configure, have fragmented documentation, and are not designed for small non-cloud environments. Manual SSH and bash scripting workflows are tedious but feel more reliable than the overhead of formal CI system setup. There is no lightweight, self-hostable CI that works simply for a single developer with a few machines.
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