Infrastructure and Automation
Published on November 28, 2023 by Derek Enos
This has been a rather sleepy year for outward progress, but the gears turn, and the vision grows.
Recent work:
- Ported the Beacon Computing Club forum from the cloud-hosted Forem platform to a locally-hosted Discourse, with the result being that all beaconny.net services are now served from hardware in Beacon, New York.
- Added a Files service to provide free, public access to a variety of local government documents, meeting videos, regional newspapers, etc.
- Codified the network infrastructure and software configuration into Ansible playbooks for efficient and reproducible deployments to the local computing cluster.
- Misc
- Automated SSL certificate renewal
- Created script to automate Highlands Current newspaper PDF downloads
- Retired underutilized services:
- AI Image Generator
- Polis