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How I GitOps Home Assistant Configurations

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:37:02 +0000

I always love the idea of GitOps, where everything I have in a git repo represents the current state of my application. But not everything are made for GitOps, so we have to sort of “make it work”. In this post, I will show you how I manage to GitOps my Home Assistant configurations. Spoiler, this is hacky and messy at the same time, so please bear this in mind before continuing.

Variable Substitution in Flux GitOps

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:36:08 +0000

Sometimes there are values that you want to use multiple times in your manifest files. Usually, we define them using a config map or secret and we either mount them as a file or environment variable. This is easy if you don’t use GitOps and have a small amount of pods. Also, having a single configmap and secret will clean up a lot of mess out of your cluster, and this is what variable substitution will do for you. I find this really useful especially for sensitive information you don’t want people all around the world to see. In this post, I will show you how I do variable substitution using Flux GitOps tool.

Flux Secret Management with SOPS age

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:16:41 +0000

Following my previous post about Kubernetes management using Flux, this post will cover secret management using SOPS and age. SOPS is a tool to encrypt and decrypt text files while age is the encryption tool that is simple, modern, and secure.

How I Manage My Kubernetes Manifests Using Flux

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:45:56 +0000

GitOps is currently the most popular way to manage your services. It’s sort of what DevOps is but with Git. To put it in a simple way, it is a practice where you manage everything through git. Whatever you have in your git repository is what your cluster current state is. Because GitOps is so popular there are a lot of new tools focusing on GitOps right now, and Flux is one of them. In this post I will give you a glance on how I manage my Kubernetes manifests using Flux.

Raspberry Pi Media Server Series 2 - Secure Ssh

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 10:31:59 +0000

This is the second part of my Raspberry Pi Media Server series. On previous post, I wrote about installing Manjaro Linux ARM into my Raspberry Pi 4. Now, we are going to secure our SSH server on Raspberry Pi so that we can at least prevent brute-force attempt on our future home media server from the evil outside world. Securing SSH server is one of the most crucial part of every server that can be accessible on the internet.