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Running Renovate on self-hosted Forgejo
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/running-renovate-on-self-hosted-forgejo/
Published: February 17, 2025 02:04
In this post I will demonstrate how I configured Renovate to run on my self-hosted Forgejo runners, so I can automatically track updates on my home lab applications. A lot of the quirks with the runner configuration have been explained in a previous blog…
Sending email notifications via Pushover
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/sending-email-notifications-via-pushover/
Published: February 17, 2025 02:03
In this post I will show you how to configure a very simple service called smtp-pushover, which does nothing more than simply convert an email message into a notification to be sent to your phone via Pushover. I am using this mostly to send pull requests…
My self-hosted Forgejo runner setup
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/my-self-hosted-forgejo-runner-setup/
Published: February 3, 2025 13:18
In this (very long post) I will be demonstrating how I have setup my self-hosted Forgejo runners at home using Docker Compose, Docker-in-Docker and a bonus LXC. To demonstrate with a practical example, I will be building an Ansible Execution environment,…
Staggering cron jobs across hosts
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2024/07/11/staggering-cron-jobs-across-hosts/
Published: July 12, 2024 03:09
I was poking around at my home lab hosts, checking if everything was looking good, when I realized the backups were taking awfully long, and causing a high I/O wait everywhere. A few minutes of head scratching and it hit me: they were all running backups…
Proxying apps behind Caddy with certs from private CA (using Home Assistant as example)
Published: April 13, 2024 01:38
Introduction In a previous post I explained how you can have your own private certificate authority (CA) by using step-ca. And to demonstrate its functionality, I used certbot to pull a certificate into a web application. In this post I will demonstrate…
Reading secrets from Vaultwarden inside Ansible Navigator
Published: April 7, 2024 18:51
Introduction On a previous post I demonstrated how you can use Ansible playbooks to read secrets from Vaultwarden or Bitwarden. On this post I will demonstrate how you can read those secrets when running your playbooks from inside Ansible Navigator. And to…
Using Ansible to read passwords from Vaultwarden
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/ansible-vaultwarden/
Published: April 5, 2024 03:36
Introduction A while ago I posted on Mastodon about the day I discovered that Vaultwarden existed, and how I could use it together with Ansible to automate landing secrets on my servers. Some people commented they would like to see it working. Some time…
Running your private Certificate Authority with ACME support
Published: March 3, 2024 19:20
Introduction and notes I have a home lab where I run a bunch of different services either for testing or even for every day family use. I’ve been using self-signed SSL/TLS certificates for a long time, but they’re hard to manage, and they don’t look as…
Sending notifications from ChangeDetection.io to Home Assistant
Published: February 19, 2024 23:26
Introduction and notes ChangeDetection.io (CD, for short) is an app that monitors a website and allows you to receive a notification when that website changes. That’s very useful when the site does not provide their own notification methods, or you simply…
Reviving a dead blog?
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2024/02/18/reviving-a-dead-blog/
Published: February 18, 2024 23:06
It’s been a (very) long time since my last post on this blog. To be honest, I don’t even remember why I stopped posting. But the fact is that over the past two years I’ve been living my social media life through Mastodon, and a lot of people over there…