Write Only Log for 9 Aug 2025 - osric.uk

Today's pro tip: Do not uninstall the wireless network package that enables the wireless network you are using to reach the machine.

Now I've got "reinstall OS" on the todo list. (For two raspberry pis that I was being all efficient and setting up with ansible.)

Sigh.

I'm getting k3s fettled up again. I've got a VM (tayet) as the server, and a couple of fallow Raspberry Pis as agent nodes. Still not sure what I want to do with a k3s cluster. There's a bunch of stuff to install like step-ca that are services one should have running in your cluster, but I'm working on folding my website down to a monolith, so I don't have that many actual applications.

On the other hand, there is a reasonable chance that we're going to get fast symetric fibre in a couple of months (when the BT contract ends), I'm tempted to bring most of my hosting back home, on principal. Of course, I still need a cloud endpoint for the reputation, and splitting services between cloud and house makes them both slower and less reliable.

Sigh, again. 20 year old me would have gone crazy at the idea of symetric gigabit fibre to the home, but I think husband may be right and we just don't need that kind of bandwidth.

Just got information:

  • My website (that you should be reading this blog on), also has food diary, unfinished bookmark sync toy, and a couple of other projects
  • Webmail (the main excuse for a cloud server, includes a SMTP server, an IMAP server, a few anti spam servers, as well as the website. Oh, and a bunch of storage for emails)
  • Husband's website
  • Private file share, for files to big to reliably email (that we're renting extra storage for)
  • Private container repo
  • Private Nuget repo (That I'm not using any more, I gave up and pulled the packages (and the microsetvices that used them) into a monorepo with the webserver)
  • Oauth2.0 server

Want to add:

  • Metrics/Logs/Traces/Alerts (Prometheus/Grafana used to be my go to choice, but I've soured on them and I don't know why. I'm still looking for something tiny and reliable. I miss MMRTG)

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