2025-11-14 Notes

Goals + Recap

Yesterday was a doozy!
And stuff just worked today morning! I didn’t have to do anything at all! I had done everything correctly last night and then my tired brain was testing stuff with a typo in my commands. It also taught me that most stuff is easy. And I should be open to learning new stuff if it interests me. I stuck with Nginx out of inertia for far to long. HAProxy actually fits my mental model of a proxy / load balancer. I find its config easier and more intuitive. Should have switched long ago
Continue with doing MetalLB
Once that is done, do kanboard again
Begin by moving (lifting and shifting in popular parlance) Kanboard to the cluster
- Cert will probably be needed
- Learn how to configure an app with code
- Figure out secrets, if there are any
- Learn how to tunnel through and reverse proxy
- Learn how to store data and back it up
Move Miniflux next, followed by Hedgedoc

Slow start today. Was trying to figure out what Metal LB meant by a pool and did it mean my DHCP pool (No. it does note)
2025-11-14 09:45: Teak break.

Back to work
2025-11-14 11:35: Giving up on MetalLB for now. Sticking to the inbuilt load balancer. Nothing’s quite clicking right and I don’t know where to start troubleshooting. Maybe I’ll give myself until lunch and then decide
2025-11-14 11:37: Yea, no. Tearing down the cluster and bringing it back up with ServiceLB
2025-11-14 12:56: Lunch. Be back in the eve

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