Automation

Preface I’ve wanted to setup transmission on my server for a while. I just wanted to make sure no one could see the linux iso’s I was downloading. I’ve tried before but for some reason always struggled. I mean I had it working a few years ago but that was without docker. Now I have a little bit of a diffrent approch. I want to talk about that today. Introduction Torrenting over a VPN is fairly simple, it is the seeding that is the problem. Lots of VPN services either block outright the ability to see or open a random port that you have to figureout and add to your client. The worst part, it changes when you restart the VPN. So… how do I go about fixing that? I will be using the LSIO container for transmission. LSIO has the amazing ability to run “Private Custom Services”. This allows you to run a script along side what ever service is starting. So lets start some of the configs and scripts. ...

Preface A little while ago I wrote a guide on how to deploy a k8s stack using Terraform and Ansible on a XCP-NG host runnign Xen Orchestra. While I think the guide was OK, I did cut quite a few corners on it and I want to put that right. Also, I was working ok K8s stuff again and wanted something that was a little easier to re-deploy, just incase I messed something up real bad. Like setting the pods network to my home network’s subnet causing the servers to stop responding… Doh. ...