Self-Hosted Homelab Maintenance Autopilot for Certificates, Backups, Updates, and Health Checks
The 'maintenance tax' of self-hosting is real: container updates, certificate renewals, backup verification, storage monitoring, and security patches collectively create a burden that most self-hosters admit they stop keeping up with within months. Individual tools handle pieces (certbot for certs, Watchtower for updates) but there's no unified orchestrator that manages the operational overhead of running a homelab.
This is an integration play. Don't rebuild monitoring or container management. Build the orchestration layer that connects to existing tools (Portainer API, Uptime Kuma API, certbot, restic) and runs a maintenance playbook: check certs -> renew if needed -> verify backups -> check for container updates -> apply safe updates -> run health checks -> send one daily digest. Ship as a Docker container with a simple YAML config.
landscape (3 existing solutions)
The homelab ecosystem has monitoring tools (Uptime Kuma, Grafana), container managers (Portainer), and update tools (WUD, DIUN), but nothing that ties them together into a maintenance autopilot. You can see your certs are expiring, your backups haven't run, and your containers are outdated, but each requires a different tool and manual intervention. The 'single pane of glass for homelab ops' that actually takes action doesn't exist.