General Homelab

Game cache – Setup local Steam cache that plays nice with piHole

TheDatabaseMe
4. February 20234. February 2023

Having a weak internet connection and a huge Steam game collection at the same time can be hard to manage. Since many years there is the LAN Cache project, which provides a DNS interception between your Steam client and the actual download servers of Steam. But having this play nicely with my piHole setup was not so easy.

Building and pushing – Use Github Actions to build and push Docker images

TheDatabaseMe
2. July 20229. December 2022

One can use Github Actions as CI/CD tool to build and push your Docker images from your repositories Dockerfile and to your Docker image registry of choice. You may want to use shell commands for that but there is a more refined way to do it in Github Actions, using existing Action Modules.

Earthbuilder – Use Terraform with Openstack

TheDatabaseMe
25. May 202227. May 2022

Terraform is infrastructure as code. Meaning you describe the desired state of a sum of infrastructure components in a manifest. This is a short tutorial on creating a VM on top of Openstack using Terraform.

Restore and Clone from S3 – Configure Zalando Postgres Operator Restore with WAL-G

TheDatabaseMe
3. May 202219. May 2023
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In an earlier blogpost, I wrote about doing Postgres backups using WAL-G to a S3 storage. This time we have a look to either clone or “inplace” restore a postgres instance from these backups. All of this using the Zalando Postgres Operator. If you haven’t done so, please read the backup post before proceeding reading this one.

CI/CD this – Build a self-hosted Github Actions runner host

TheDatabaseMe
1. May 20221. May 2022

Github Actions is a free CI/CD solution that comes along with every Github account. It enables you to test, build and deploy your code you push to your Github repository. When using a free (non-payed) Github account, it comes with some limitation though. Which you can workaround by using your own, selfhosted Actions runner host.

Let’s keep this our secret – Transparent Git encryption using git-crypt

TheDatabaseMe
13. April 202213. April 2022
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Storing sensitive or secret information within a Git repository is never a good idea, at least as long as you do it unencrypted. Whoever has access to the Git repository, can view and change this sensitive data. Storing encrypted data within a Git repo has also the downside, that you need to decrypt it while you want to work with the data and you have to remember to reencrypt it, before pushing it back again. Here comes git-crypt into play. Git-crypt gives you a transparent method to de- and encrypt data during pulling and pushing from or to your Git repository.