Goal

  • Taking it easy today as well. Much better today. Hope to get to structured “real” work tomorrow

2025-01-29 09:30

  • Will try to get my blog publishing automatically like it did before! Bonus points if any of them can be controlled via ansible 😂
  • 09:56: Break. Powercut
  • 10:56: Power’s back!
  • 11:27: Learnt about the noop parameter in the meta module. Pretty handy for me to create comment placeholders until I figure out how to convert prose into poetry … err … ansible yaml
  • 11:30: Powercut. 11:39: Back
  • Publishing the site, needs hugo versions in place
    • so syncthing needs to work (not immediately, grab now from whatever’s there.)
    • a runner, needs to work. (hook up alpha for now) 11:50, done.
    • ansible to make folder available to alarm, www-data, and git
  • 11:59: Powercut! 12:03: Back
  • Got proper (hopefully) permissions set
  • 12:14: Break 12:20: Back
  • 12:39: Got the static files section of the code forge up and running with the right permissions
  • Figuring out how I did ssh secrets is now going to be hard. Should’ve written it down. Grr.
  • ssh-keyscan! That was it! Now to go figure it out
  • 13:05: Lunch 13:25: Back
  • 13:41: A couple of hiccoughs, and I think I’ve gotten the workflow back up! Hurrah!
  • 13:44: Break. 14:26: Back
  • Experimenting with multiple runners on the same machine. 14:47: Got them to work!
  • Installing a runner on the code server as well. Decided against doing this in Ansible. (This suggests that I can run this as an independant role later?)
  • Done! I have three runners now! Woohoo!
  • I really appreciate having a faster network now! While the Pis win on power and are good for something like my calibre library, when it comes time to something that requires frequent feedback, I really, really, really love the bits running faster on the wire :)

2025-01-29 14:47

  • Trying to configure syncthing manually, and then getting stuff into ansible.
  • 15:54: Done. Break. 16:10: Back
  • Configured syncthing manually. I don’t see an easy way to backup/restore Syncthing easily via Ansible. So will move this to the back of my mind now. It does not bother me as much
  • Enabled backup for the repos I’ll now create using Akash Rajpurohit’s wonderful git-sync tool
  • Off to start mirroring the git repos I had earlier
  • Ooh this is blazing fast! (clapping hands with glee …)
  • 17:53: never thought I would run into Github rate limits when manually cloning repos 😂
  • 18:15: Done. Calling it a day.
  • Will stop with Ansible here, now that I have one machine working. And go read about terraform and kubernetes tomorrow, so I can stand up a Hetzner VM running K3S for myself

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