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Getting started with FleetDM

Getting started with FleetDM

Could this replace Ansible?

I was recently chatting with some colleagues about deployment tooling and FleetDM came up. I felt like I was aware of most deployment tools but this was new to me. Logos are how companies show brands that use their products and of whom they are proud to share. So it is a severe negative to me they show Flock amongst their scrolling list. But let’s still consider them as they are Open Source and easy to deploy

Posted by Isaac on Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Gitea ist Kaput

Gitea ist Kaput

Well that kind of sucks. Let's fix it

Gitea went kaput. Just up and stopped working one day. I came back from the BWCA and noticed none of my automated builds had succeeded: The errors were all about “back pack header” I tried many things - restarting Kubernetes, docker, upgrading the container image. All the things that usually ‘unstuck’ a Gitea instance just weren’t. Any local pull or clone would fail builder@DESKTOP-QADGF36:~/Workspaces/fbsnew$ git pull fatal: protocol error: bad pack header It wasn’t disk space

Posted by Isaac on Thursday, August 20, 2026

Home Lab Updates

Home Lab Updates

Three way DR for Gitea, Gancio needs a kick and GCP cleanups

In moving our primary blogging system from Github over to a self hosted Gitea, we need to sort out how to best create a proper HA DR environment. This means having some push mirrors. The first thing I did when i setup Gitea to be the “real” repo for this blog was to mirror it to Forgejo. However that instance is on the same cluster, so if there is a catastrophic outage, then I would expect both to be down and have to rely on whatever my last local clone happens to be.

Posted by Isaac on Tuesday, July 7, 2026