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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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