Let your garden thrive with Plant-it
Garden Companion
To keep your garden and indoor plants alive, you must remember to water them on time, apply fertilizers, and more. Plant-it is a self-hosted garden companion designed to assist you in achieving these tasks.
Managing a household is already a lot of work. As a result, plants typically don't receive the attention they require. Unfortunately, neglecting to water or fertilize them at the appropriate times can result in their demise. This is regrettable, because caring for your plants doesn't have to be complex. You just need a comprehensive overview of your gardening tasks and timely reminders.
The Plant-it [1] project is designed to assist you in managing your plants and associated tasks, including a calendar and reminders through email or push notifications. In this article, I'll demonstrate how to install Plant-it on a Debian 12 server using Docker Compose [2] and explore its capabilities.
Installation
Listing 1 shows the docker-compose.yml file's contents with the definition of three containers: the Plant-it server, MySQL for the database to store Plant-it's data, and Redis used as a cache. Additionally, you should create the necessary directories for the container volumes:
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