2025-12-16 Notes

Goals + Recap

Yesterday was was quite hard, but it ended in the traefik on the cluster, managing its own certificates rather than me having to provide it manually. My IRC client (theLounge IRC) moved as well.
Today
- Look at The Big Plan!, to see if anything needs adding or changing
- Move Sendy (my email list software) to the cluster

Let’s start (at the very beginning … )
I like the fact, that despite all the upheavel, my writing process has essentially remained unaffected. I don’t think I had a single day I could not write and publish my thoughts and updates as I go through the move. I am grateful to the muses and the kindly ones for that
2025-12-16 10:22: Been doing research on sendy migrations. Tea break

Back. Continuing research
2025-12-16 11:18: Too tough to do directly online in production. Trying stuff on the home cluster first
2025-12-16 12:28: Lunch

Back to work
2025-12-16 13:57: Overwhelmed. Doing some other chores for a bit
2025-12-16 14:32: Back at work
2025-12-16 14:56: Gave up on the idea of locally doing this. Too cumbersome. Will try it online
2025-12-16 17:10: Figured that I’d use the hostpath approach just like I did for the Hugo blog. Being single node makes a lot of things really easy. I really need to do a bigger multi-node cluster to understand what’s on the other side though. I’d hazard that data and databases are out in some shared thing somewhere, not in the cluster
2025-12-16 17:19: Also realised that there’s a fantastic MariaDB helm chart, but I’m sticking to my manual copy/paste/adapt of a simpler docker image, since my needs are not complex.
2025-12-16 19:35: Giving up for today. Will continue tomorrow

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