Goals

  • Continue with moving the VM

2025-10-29 07:50

  • Setting things up now
  • 2025-10-29 08:22: Shit! got distracted! Getting back to work asap!

2025-10-29 09:40

  • Have actually begun work now. Life happened
  • changed my mind. i don’t need an idempotent config. will use cloud init (instead of ansible as i originally planned) to set up details in the vm once it is provisioned by terraform
  • 2025-10-29 10:47: Still at it
  • 2025-10-29 11:58: If i call the file terraform.tfvars, terraform reads it in automatically. If not, I have to specify a -var-file="blah.tfvars" at the command line
  • Terraform will read the .tfvars file and attempt to match it to variable names in main.tf or variables.tf (or whatever) and if there aren’t any declared, it will complain. So definitions in the .tf files first, the values of which can be found then in the .tfvars files.
  • DON’T COMMIT A .tfvars FILE TO GIT!!!
  • 2025-10-29 13:10: Break

2025-10-29 13:30

  • Back
  • 2025-10-29 13:51: Tweaked my Zellij config a bit, so that now I don’t have to lift a finger in my supplementary panes of my writing session. Hugo serve automatically starts in one pane and the other automatically watches for changes to today’s notes file and keeps committing it to git
  • Decided to continue with with the Terraform / K3s move all day
  • 2025-10-29 14:10: Brains not braining. Time for a small nap

2025-10-29 14:30

  • Back
  • 2025-10-29 15:40: Made good progress. Tea Break
  • 2025-10-29 16:24: Done. Continuing

2025-10-29 16:30

  • 2025-10-29 19:00: Done! I got a Hetzner VM up and running and managed to log in!
  • Tomorrow to put K3s on it!

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