Self-Host

Some systems might take an excessively long time to boot when no peripherals are attached (not only with the Pi series). In those cases it may be useful to add the rng-tools package to speed up the gathering of entropy.

It is generally considered an administrative best practise to avoid logging in and/or operating with elevated privileges, to the extent reasonable to do so. Therefore one needs a user that is not root for performing most operations, but which can gain elevated access when required. In addition if, as recommended, one prevents root login over SSH one needs a user than one can SSH into and gain temporary elevated privileges. (Assuming a remotely accessed system, of course).

Configure backups on all systems, and create a more comfortable terminal environment for system on which you use the shell.

Configure backups on all systems, and create a more comfortable terminal environment for system on which you use the shell.

Raspberry Pi-specific notes for preparing and installing Alpine Linux