cove.town, atproto self-hosted self-hosting

A while ago I shared cove.town as an experiment with atproto self-hosting. It’s driven by a bunch of little docker composes and contains a PDS, a knot, a spindle and a hold. The PDS owns the accounts, the knot owns the repo itself, the spindle builds the images it runs on, and the hold is the docker registry the composes point at. It’s a tiny little almost self-sufficient atproto ecosystem. I’ve now shared write ups for how to get all these components set up, step by step, so I thought I’d do one final post tying it all together. Building the images The composes run on my Dokploy server, and each one points at a Docker image built on the spindle. I would love to use the newer microvm engine, but like most hosting providers, Hetzner (referral link for €20 off) does not provide access to /dev/kvm, which seems like a precondition for using microvm if you don’t want your workflows to take forever using qemu emulation. Instead I’m using the original nixery engine and I’m cheekily giving…