2025-12-19 Notes

Goals + Recap

Everything came to a head yesterday. Was able to bend the last two months of learning towards quickly moving most of my remaining services across. All that’s left is Anki and a few finishing touches.
Today
- Look at The Big Plan!, to see if anything needs adding or changing.
- Add my CI/CD runner key to the new VM via Ansible
- Move Anki to the server.
- Figure out if image updations for the new apps and create them if warranted.
  - Hedgedoc
  - Huginn: do it the old fashioned way. Reminder in org mode to check for a new release every quarter and upgrade manually
  - Joplin
  - Mastodon Archive Blog
- Decommission the old VM. Au revoir, mon ami!

Begin!
2025-12-19 08:15: All this work has proven itself. All I had to do to update Lego on the VM was update a variable and run my ansible-pull script!
2025-12-19 08:20: Break

Back
Reading up on how to wrangle a Python container
2025-12-19 09:15: Moved Anki’s DNS to point to the new VM. That’s the last of it. All my records now point to the new VM.
2025-12-19 09:28: Break

Back
2025-12-19 12:03: Built a small Anki image, by pip installing into the standard Python image
2025-12-19 12:41: Slimmed the image and uploaded it. Lunch break

Back
2025-12-19 16:48: Got ansible to install the public key for Forgejo blog deploys to the VM.
2025-12-19 17:50: Most all apps now update themselves thanks to Flux CD.
The doing was fun! And now to slow down and think and write about all I’ve done.
Also think of some project that I could deploy on AWS, so I can show that off as part of my portfolio.
But right now, to enjoy Christmas break. I will be sporadic until the next year.

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