2025-11-14 Notes

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:36:20 +0530

Goals + Recap
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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: Tea 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.
2025-11-14 13:21: Cleared the decks so I could work afternoon as well
2025-11-14 15:36: Got sealed secrets installed. Trying to copy paste and modify these things myself now. Tea break. External DNS is next on the list

2025-11-14 17:26: Decided not to do External DNS. Another one for the AWS project list. I want to retain control by some manual work. External DNS does not help or hinder in this regard. Better off without it for my personal use. Will come back to it, if needs change
2025-11-14 18:01: Reading flux documentation
2025-11-14 18:09: Switched to a video course
2025-11-14 20:41: Going through the course makes me realise that Funky Penguin’s structure is maybe a little too strict for me. Will have to look into adapting it a bit to my liking
2025-11-14 21:58: Making good progress with the course
2025-11-14 22:57: Done. Calling it a night!

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feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:05:52 +0530

Flux setup yesterday! Try and get Metal LB working.
Found [Funky Penguin’s guide][]. Will use it to, uhm, guide me through my setup.e
Once the CD stuff works, 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

Updated hcloud cli and lego on both my machines
2025-11-13 09:51: Utterly botched all my network machines Will do a tea break and then go look at the mess I made
2025-11-13 10:44: Fixed the network
2025-11-13 11:22: Trying to get Nginx stream proxying to work. Grrrr
2025-11-13 13:23: Completely buggered up the Nginx machine now. Needs a complete redo!
2025-11-13 14:14: MetalLB seems like a distant dream right now!
2025-11-13 14:14: Trying to get myself an alternative to Nginx which (hopefully) does better layer 4 routing? Looking at haproxy.
2025-11-13 18:17: Got haproxy working for the forgejo instance somehow with a lot of help from the docs and various llms
2025-11-13 19:01: The haproxy tutorials page is dammed helpful!
2025-11-13 21:31: Calling it a night. Exhausted. Most everything is done. Need to figure out a way to somehow serve static files at the files path for the forgejo instance

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