From 0a52744338b78a3b5492b9d52a6949b1e1b5d507 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gabriel Arazas Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 11:17:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add entry '2022-11-26' to sysadmin journal --- .../journals.learning-how-to-sysadmin.org | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/notebook/journals.learning-how-to-sysadmin.org b/notebook/journals.learning-how-to-sysadmin.org index 58c1ceb..8da48fa 100644 --- a/notebook/journals.learning-how-to-sysadmin.org +++ b/notebook/journals.learning-how-to-sysadmin.org @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ :END: #+title: Journals: Learning how to sysadmin #+date: 2022-11-10 14:14:04 +08:00 -#+date_modified: 2022-11-25 14:54:11 +08:00 +#+date_modified: 2022-11-27 11:16:58 +08:00 #+language: en @@ -234,3 +234,20 @@ This means collaboration between different instances is very much possible and I Compared to Sourcehut, Gitea is simpler to initialize which I was able to quickly start an instance. Most of the time came from viewing the configuration options and testing the instance. + + +* 2022-11-26 + +The deployment failed because I forgot secrets management is a thing. +Each infrastructure-as-a-service apparently have their own thing such as [[https://cloud.google.com/kms][Google Cloud Platform KMS]], [[https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/key-vault/][Microsoft Azure Key Vault]], [[https://aws.amazon.com/kms/][Amazon Web Services KMS]], and [[https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault][Hashicorp Vault]]. +It's a good thing I'm using [[https://github.com/mozilla/sops][sops]] for this. + +It's a short time from the previous days but it should go back to normal with the time to journal this abomination. +Around this time I also signed up for Microsoft Azure free tier subscription for trying to manage a Windows server this time around. +It should be simpler to start since I have absolutely no idea how to provision a thing but compared to my knowledge for Linux-based systems, it is non-existent. +So most of the time spent will be learning all of the concepts from absolute zero experience. +Should be fun... + +I've also decided to full gung-ho on deploying Linux-based systems with NixOS. +I've deleted all of the non-NixOS Linux-based systems in my fleet and started generating a bunch of NixOS GCE images. +Should be doubly fun...