Recently, I've realised that I actually manage quite an extensive network of interconnected devices. Some of them depend on each other in a non-obvious fashion, so after reading a comment on Reddit I decided to begin the process of documenting it all on a wiki.

If you've followed this blog for a while, then you'll probably know that I'm the author of a wiki engine called Pepperminty Wiki. If you're wondering, I'm still working away at it on and off - and have no plans to abandon it any time soon. After all, I have multiple instances of it setup - so I've got more reasons than 1 to keep developing it!

Anyway, I've recently setup a new instance of it to document the network infrastructure I maintain and manage. I'm currently going for 1 page per device, with sub-pages for the services they host. I tried putting the services under sub-headings on each device's page, but it quickly got cluttered and difficult to sort through.

Even if you just manage a Raspberry Pi acting as a server (I've got several of these myself actually), I do recommend looking into it. You'll save yourself so much time when asking questions like "what does this do?", "how does that work again?", and "where was it that I put the configuration file for that?".....

It's almost as if I'm speaking from experience :P

Don't forget to avoid putting passwords in a wiki though - as tempting as it sounds. As I recommend in my earlier post, Keepass 2 is my password manager of choice for that.

I might be a bit biased, but I can thoroughly recommend Pepperminty Wiki for this - and many other - purposes. If there's something missing, then don't hesitate to open an issue and I'll do my best to help you out :-)

Found this useful? Got different way you document stuff? Comment below! It really helps motivate me to write and program more.