I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing

• testssl.sh

  43 7,655 8.7 Shell

  Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port

• microcosm

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  Front end for Microcosm, a Go web server that serves the static files, templates and performs API calls. (by buro9)

For reference, this is roughly what I have... still not looking to sell today (that also takes time and brain cycles) but this is what I wrote in an email to someone enquiring by email after I posted this morning:

So I wasn't looking to sell when I wrote the comment on HN, but the gist is: 8 years ago I created a platform for forums, it's a PostgreSQL database with a Go API layer. It's multi-tenant by default, so hosting many forums on a single server or cluster is trivial. That much is solid, and well maintained. But... I am not a front-end person and with that in mind I had the frontend built in Python + Django originally... it has no database, it's a pure veneer over the API just to use common templating for making the HTML. This part has not been maintained... it's 8 years out of date, Python 2.

The platform I run has a number of sites on it, and I'm loosely aware that over the years other people had spun up instances of their own (it was open source, but feeling responsible for the lack of updates I hid that recently).

Examples of sites using it:

* https://www.lfgss.com (the biggest site on it)

* https://pignolefixe.microco.sm/ (a french site)

* https://forum.espruino.com (something to do with arduino and javascript)

* https://forum.islington.cc (a pretty strong site)

* https://forum.rapha.cc/ (a private members club)

A common theme is cycling.

The entire thing is secure, privacy focused, very low effort to run. There are no adverts, no tracking, no stats... but web logs say that I served 1.5M HTTP requests in the last 24 hours (to now) and that's behind a well configured Cloudflare cache (those not signed in hit cache for 5 minutes, only those signed in get dynamic HTML).

So that's why I have... a forum platform. Oh... what differentiates this forum platform? It has events... in fact the platform is bespoke, the idea when I started it was to have things like classifieds, events, polls, forms, wiki all be native top-level content within a forum. I never liked on vBulletin or Reddit how you'd have to leave the forum to collaborate beyond conversations so I was trying to bring it all into the forum (and thus compete with MeetUp, eBay, etc... who don't have communities and wish they did).

I still don't know if I'm necessarily looking to sell... but if we get to the point that the frontend server fails in some horrible way, the Python + Django being 8 years old probably means the effort to get it working is too much. I did realise this, and started a frontend in Go to replace the Django one (I can maintain Go code) https://github.com/buro9/microcosm but you can see the lack of progress... I joined fast growing startups and my career accelerated too, that doesn't leave time for side projects.

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• cluster-template

  63 1,560 9.8 Python

  A template for deploying a Kubernetes cluster with k3s or Talos

  

I know you say you will let the projects mature, but I think it's a pretty good time to start picking up Kubernetes or at least getting your hands dirty with it. Nomad is a much simpler solution but not nearly as popular, in-depth or in demand as Kubernetes.

If you wanted an 'in' to Kubernetes and better automation of your homelab. I would suggest to check out this repo[1], it's nearly a A-Z guide on getting k3s running on Ubuntu (I am no distro-snob, Ubuntu just works well for most home workloads in Kubernetes). GitOps tools like Flux and Argo are really becoming popular to use with Kubernetes because all your configuration is stored in Git and the GitOps tools deploy manifests based on the Git repo state. My entire home cluster[2] is open source and there's many who are also doing something similar[3].

All of this comes at a cost of learning these tools which is not easy, but from my interactions with people who do take the plunge from docker-compose or docker-swarm most of them stay and once they see the benefits of GitOps and Kubernetes cannot go back to their previous ways. Automation is king and it is much easier using Kubernetes because most of the tools exist for it already.

1. https://github.com/k8s-at-home/template-cluster-k3s

• home-ops

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  Wife approved HomeOps driven by Kubernetes and GitOps using Flux

• awesome-home-kubernetes

  16 1,205 7.7 Python

  Discontinued ⚠️ Deprecated: Awesome projects involving running Kubernetes at home

  

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