0e98988fcb
Prometheus kept being found stopped after boots, always Exited(0),
always alone. The journal settles it: both stops sit seconds before a
host shutdown boundary — container stopped 05:45:22, boot ended
05:45:30; stopped 04:41:59, boot ended 04:42:05. This is a laptop-class
host that gets shut down, and under ROOTLESS docker the containers are
ordinary processes in the user session, torn down by systemd in
parallel with dockerd's own exit.
That parallelism is the race. An app that handles SIGTERM promptly
exits while dockerd is still alive to record "stopped" — and
unless-stopped then means what it says: not restarted at the next
boot. Apps that exit slower, or die only when dockerd does, are
recorded as running and come back. Prometheus loses reliably because it
is the best-behaved process on the box ("See you next time!"), but
which app loses is a scheduling accident — changing Prometheus's
restart policy would treat the sample, not the race.
So an @reboot crontab entry now waits for the rootless daemon (up to
five minutes, then gives up rather than hang) and `compose up -d`s
every installed app via the existing dockerComposeUpAllApps. Idempotent:
running apps see no diff, stopped ones start, ordering is compose's
problem. Registered through crontabRefresh like the other entries, and
installed on this box.
The accepted trade, stated rather than hidden: an app deliberately
stopped before a reboot comes back after it. On a self-hosting box "the
fleet is up after boot" is the promise unless-stopped was already trying
to make; a stop that must survive reboots is what uninstall is for.
Verified by direct execution: daemon answered immediately, all
installed apps reconciled, running containers untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.