Fresh/Brewed

OpenBao in k8s

OS Vault for fun and profit

I get caught up sometimes on LinkedIn posts and i was directed to this one by Andreas Prins posted Sept 22 about new rancher charts for OpenBao. That seems really sweet. I love Rancher K3s and so i immediately wanted to dig in. I plan to setup OpenBao in K3s then focus on JWT/OIDC authentication with Authentik as well as CLI usage locally. However, we may be in for a rough start…

Home lab maintenance: certs and more certs

I got some fixin to do

I noticed recently that I was getting billed $2.50 monthly for IONOS for “DNS Pro”. Seems this is a mandatory add-in on domains and I only discovered it when a payment was rejected and I was pinged about it in email. So these cheap domains IONOS provides really aren’t when you figure you’ll get bilked for $2.50/month ($30/year) to just exist - I wasn’t even using their DNS (all external).

OS Apps: JSPaint, Shiori, SnapOtter

fun stuff

You know you secretly liked MS Paint. So did I and now there is a solid fast platform independent Open Source alternative called JSPaint. We’ll look into using it to make some diagrams and see if it can fit our needs. I also wanted to check out, or rather circle back to, Shiori. It’s a bookmark tool but also it can download web pages and save them locally. It has a “create a book” feature I want to explore.

Idp with Authelia

Simple light self hosted and OS

We took a look at Authentik recently that provides a nice centralized authentication and authorization solution that is Open Source and self-hosted. But there are other options out there. One that caught my attention is Authelia. Setup I plan to skip docker and just start with Kubernetes. Since I need to route traffic in, I’ll need a DNS record. I can create that easily in Azure DNS $ az account set --subscription "Pay-As-You-Go" && az network dns record-set a add-record -g idjdnsrg -z tpk.pw -a 76.156.69.232 -n authelia { "ARecords": [ { "ipv4Address": "76.156.69.232" } ], "TTL": 3600, "etag": "d32fd44e-1b18-411c-83a5-722b1862bb18", "fqdn": "authelia.tpk.pw.", "id": "/subscriptions/d955c0ba-13dc-44cf-a29a-8fed74cbb22d/resourceGroups/idjdnsrg/providers/Microsoft.Network/dnszones/tpk.pw/A/authelia", "name": "authelia", "provisioningState": "Succeeded", "resourceGroup": "idjdnsrg", "targetResource": {}, "trafficManagementProfile": {}, "type": "Microsoft.Network/dnszones/A" } I want to now bring in the helm repo

More Agentic Bot Battles

Wizards and trolls

Last week we deep dived on building out an agent system and I suggested I might just do some tweaks. Upon publishing that article I had open sourced it all and I did as I suggested - I added some NPCs. I added “Gary the Wizard” which one can challenge in a duel If you loose, you lose strength or health, but if you win you get to decide if you get +2 strength, health or victory points.