Goal

Setup a Hetzner VM using Terraform

2025-01-08 09:20

  • Morning’s gone haywire
  • Realise that I need more time than I think I do for my morning routine.
  • I should think about and see what I can shorten or drop from it. (Very difficult. Only thing I think I can do is to move my French to the evening. The rest is just the 3S’, physio, some meditation and pottering about the kitchen)
  • Have an upcoming client meeting at 10. No way I can do any deep work between now and then. Will just go play catch up with my unheard episodes of the Cal Newport Podcast

2025-01-08 10:00—11:00

  • Client meeting
  • Note to self: The Power’s gone! you really need some code to the new VM you are trying to build. Writing these posts is impossible otherwise
  • Meeting went really well

2025-01-08 11:25-12:50

  • Beginning with the Terraform stuff now
  • Learnt about the watch command. Prettier output than my raggedy old bash loop watch -n N /path/to/script where N is time in seconds
  • Just realised that I couldn’t login the other day, because I was trying to login as myself. Duh! I should try logging in as root.
  • Et voilà! I logged in!
  • So now, how do I set up an instance, the way I like it? With a user and and root disabled?
  • Figured out how to clean up my instance with just a terraform destroy Wowza! I’ll need to be careful around this command
  • cloud-init is what I’m looking for, to customise startup stuff. Now to read up on some examples and figure out how to get my user in there. and probably docker and k3s as well?
  • Note to self, put done times after every session you do
  • Lunch break

2025-01-08 14:00-14:30

  • Been asking for help and clarity from friends on IRC
  • Researching Hetzner plans.
  • Now that I realise that storage is external, maybe I can break my big server up into two pieces of machines + storage and still save money 🤞

2025-01-08 19:40

  • Planned the next day. Day one went pretty well despite all the hiccoughs actually
  • Schedule shutdown complete

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