Enterprise-Grade Self-Hosted Cloud Solutions

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to enterprise-grade, self-hosted cloud platforms with a focus on Nextcloud for collaboration and Jellyfin for media delivery. Students will learn how to design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable, and resilient cloud environments using open-source technologies. Emphasis will be placed on data sovereignty, privacy, system integration, and performance optimization.

By the end of this course, participants will gain the skills to:

• Configure and deploy Nextcloud for file sharing, collaboration, and productivity.

• Set up Jellyfin as a flexible and secure media server.

• Integrate self-hosted services into broader IT infrastructures.

• Apply best practices in security, monitoring, and user management.

• Understand the role of open-source solutions as alternatives to commercial cloud services.

📂 File Sharing, Sync & Backup

• Seafile – high-performance file sync and team collaboration.

• Syncthing – peer-to-peer file synchronization, no central server.

• Duplicati / BorgBackup – encrypted backup solutions.

🎵 Media Hosting (beyond Jellyfin)

• Plex (open-core) – alternative media server, more polished UI.

• Emby – another self-hosted media streaming solution.

• Navidrome – self-hosted music streaming (Spotify alternative).

📨 Communication & Collaboration

• Matrix / Element – decentralized chat and messaging.

• Mattermost / Rocket.Chat – self-hosted Slack alternatives.

• OnlyOffice / Collabora – office suite integrations with Nextcloud.

• Jitsi Meet / BigBlueButton – self-hosted video conferencing.

🗃️ Knowledge Management & Productivity

• Wiki.js – self-hosted modern wiki platform.

• BookStack – knowledge base and documentation platform.

• Outline – elegant team wiki for enterprises.

Data & Business Tools

• Metabase / Superset – self-hosted BI dashboards.

• Odoo / ERPNext – open-source ERP and business suite.

Infrastructure & Deployment

• Proxmox VE – virtualization and container management.

• Docker & Kubernetes – containerization for scalable hosting.

• Traefik / Nginx Proxy Manager – reverse proxies for SSL and domain routing.

• Portainer – container management UI.

Security & Identity

• Keycloak / Authelia – identity and access management (SSO).

• Vaultwarden (Bitwarden fork) – self-hosted password manager.

• Pi-hole / AdGuard Home – DNS filtering and network security.