What have I been up to lately

Posted on 2017-05-16

Still alive ?

Yes! I know I've posted a lot in January / February and disappeared a bit after that ^^. I have been busy at work and at home, and to be honest I started working on another topic of my "todo geek list" : Reinstalling my servers where I host my application and retake ownership of my data.

I also wanted to switch for manual installing all software on my servers and leveraging docker to put the app within container (and also improve a bit my knowledge in this area^^)

Here is what I have setup so far (all on docker containers):

At home (on a RaspberryPi 3):

Gogs[1], * DroneCI[2], * Wallabag[3] to save article for later, * Shaarli[4] to save interesting links, * Lutim[5] to share images, * Prometheus[6] and Grafana[7] for monitoring * Nginx[8] to manage all the app behind it on the same ports 80/443 * HTTPS everywhere (via letysencprypt[9])

On a Digital Ocean droplet:

1: https://gogs.io/

2: https://github.com/drone/drone

3: https://wallabag.org

4: https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

5: https://lut.im/

6: https://prometheus.io/

7: https://grafana.com/

8: https://wiki.nginx.org/

9: https://letsencrypt.org

My mastodon[10] instance and a feed2toot[11] bot * A Mattermost[12] chat (opensource slack) * Prometheus[13] for monitoring (link to my RPI Grafana) * HTTPS everywhere (via letysencprypt[14])

As you can see, i have been busy (with this, work, my life and of course starcraft2 ^^"), but unfortunately, I'm not done yet^^

10: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

11: https://feed2toot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

12: https://about.mattermost.com/

13: https://prometheus.io/

14: https://letsencrypt.org

My todolist still contains:

Migrate all my repos from github to Gogs (at least mirroring)

Add mattermost bots (hubot and RSS)

Monitoring alerts via email (?)

Redo mail server

Backup automated policy

Ok... That's cool, but why ?

Well, since a long time now, I'm trying to advocate for data privacy, self hosting a trying to stop feeding (too much) the GAFAM. I'm hosting my own server mail since 10 years as well as my websites (like this blog), but i wanted to go further and take ownership again of my data.

For those who speaks french and didn't see it (old from 2007… but still so true), i recommend this great video of Benjamin Bayart: Internet or minitel 2.0[15] (For non French people, look up online what Minitel was :)).

15: https://www.fdn.fr/actions/confs/internet-libre-ou-minitel-2-0/

From what I read on mastodorn, it seems B. Bayart might do a new version of that talk :). I don't really want to explain why you should care about your data, there are a lot of good articles online.

Sounds cool, i want to do it!

I'm planing to transform this experience into a series of blog posts:

Continuous integration setup: Gogs , DroneCI and automatic builds when a push happens. Bonus: push notification on a private channel of my mattermost instance.

Mastodon and feed2toot bot (will be an update of my previous post about feed2toot as I don't plan to rewrite the good installation doc)

Cool / useful apps selfhosted apps on RaspberryPi: Wallabag, Shaarli and Lutim

Mattermost and Hubot

Monitoring, graph and alerts

I'll update this post to add the link to the post series.

Talk to you soon!

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