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Wouldn’t it be better to have highly available storage for the git repo?
Something like Ceph, Minio, Seaweedfs, GarageFS etc.
Cause git is file system based.

my router and my reverse proxy (traefik) is able to receive the necessary SSL/TLS certificates however

From something like LetsEncrypt?
As an HTTP-01 Challenge? Not an DNS-01 challenge?
Http challenge means that port 80 is accessible from the public internet (because that’s how LE can confirm it can reach your server via the public DNS records, proof of server ownership).
DNS-01 is about proof of DNS record ownership, and doesn’t prove public internet access.

Also, what are you self hosting?
Does it really need to be publicly accessible? Or just accessible by you and people you trust?

And ICE will pick up those immigrants by Monday, never to be seen again.

You need to control a domain, so LE can verify you are the controller of the domain, then LE will issue you a certificate saying you are the controller of the domain.

For a wildcard LE cert, you need to use the DNS challenge method.
Essentially the ACME client (or certbot or whatever) will talk to LE and say “I want a DNS challenge for *.example.com”.
LE will reply “ok, your order number 69, and your challenge code is DEADBEEF”.
ACME then interacts with your public nameserver (or you have to do this manually) and add the challenge code as a txt record _acme-challenge.example.com. (I’ve been caught out by the fact LE uses Google DNS for resolution, and Google will only follow 1 level of NS records from the root authorative nameserver).
All the while, LE is checking for that record. When it finds the record, it mints a wildcard certificate.
ACME then periodically checks in with LE asking for order 69. Once LE has minted the cert, it will return it to acme.
And now you have a wildcard cert.

So, how to use it on a local domain?
Use a split horizon DNS method.
Ensure your DHCP is handing out a local DNS for resolving.
Configure that local DNS to then use 8.8.8.8 or whatever as it’s upstream.
Then load in static/override records to the local DNS.
Pihole can do this. OPNSense/pfSense can do this. Unifi can do some of this.

How does this work?
Any device on your network that wants to know the IP of example.example.com will ask it’s configured DNS - the local DNS that you have configured.
The local DNS will check it’s static assignments and go “yeh, example.example.com is 10.10.3.3”.
If you ask you local DNS for google.com, it won’t have a static assignment for it, so it will ask it’s upstream DNS, and return that result.
And it means you aren’t putting private IP spaces on public NS records.

Then you can load in your wildcard cert to 10.10.3.3, and you will have a trusted HTTPS connection.

Here is a list of LE clients that will automate LE certs.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/

Have a read through and pick your desired flavour.
Dig into the docs of that flavour, and start playing around.

If it’s all HTTPS, consider using something like Nginx Proxy Manager (https://nginxproxymanager.com/) as a reverse proxy in front of your services and for managing the LE cert.
It’s super easy to use, has a decent GUI, and then it’s only 1 IP to point all DNS records to.

I’ve heard an Epstein Salt Bath is also particularly invigorating

DNS and domains are just human-friendly IP addresses.

You only have 1 public IP address.
So, to access different services you need to use different ports.
Or run a service on a single port in front of the other services that can understand the connections and forward the connections to the actual services - known as a reverse proxy. In the case of http/https, there are plenty of reverse proxies that can direct requests based on all sorts of parameters, subdomains being one of them.

If you are just starting out, I’d recommend a docker compose stack and Nginx Proxy Manager.
Learning containers & docker makes everything easier.
NPM is a very easy to use reverse proxy with a nice GUI, so you don’t have to configure CertBot/ACME or learn the specific config language of Nginx.

If you are unsure of domains and all that, you can try it out for free.
Your computer has a hosts file (/etc/hosts on Linux, I think it’s in system32 on windows). This allows you to tell the computer “for the domain example.com use the IP 10.0.0.200” or whatever you want. You need a hosts file entry for each subdomain.
What this means is that you can run up a docker compose stack on your computer and point a bunch of sub domains to 127.0.0.1, use self-signed certs, and play around with nginx proxy manager and docker.
No money spent, no records published, no traffic leaving your computer.
Zero risk.

There are loads of tutorials out there on NPM and docker compose stacks. Probably some close to your specific requirements.

Boooo

I see no reason you can’t use yaml.
Yaml and json are essentially identical for basic purposes.

Once the scraper has been confirmed working, are you going to be doing a lot of reading/editing of the raw data? It might as well be a binary blob (which is a bad idea as it couples the raw data to your specific implementation)

I do that, until some container has permissions issues.
I tinker, try and fix it, give up and use a volume. Or I fix it, but it never seems to be the same fix

And in rust!

That thing solved with NATO oversight?
I knew NATO was a good thing. They should get more countries involved in NATO

Because then the EU loses potential leverage over Russia - whether to protect EUs own security or to push Russia into a peace deal.

It’s like shooting all the hostages.

Edit:
As another comment points out, it’s interest from the assets. So the assets are still intact, thus not triggering russians

And keycloak has a decent k8s operator, making deployment on a k8s cluster a breeze

Well, I guess the EU is 26/27th decent.
However, the EU is working towards defunding (I guess pushing-to-change, aka punishing) shitty members.
https://theconversation.com/why-has-the-eu-stripped-hungary-of-1-billion-the-latest-confrontation-explained-246614

So yeh, the EU isn’t perfect. It’s working on it, and it is making progress.
Nice when an oversight body isn’t corrupted

accessed from the internet

Accessed only by you and close family/friends who you are also hosting services for?
Or accessed by anyone?

“Accessed by anyone” carries more risk.

“Accessed by users you host for”, the risks can be eliminated (well, other than risks from those users) by using a VPN. As in, only the people authorised to be on the VPN can access the services.
Wireguard is the go-to these days.
Tailscale is much easier and free for 3 users and 100 nodes.

If it absolutely has to be “accessed by anyone” I would look into a “reverse proxy over VPN/tunnel” or just straight tunnel style approach like chisel (or crowbar, or corkscrew), rathole, frp, or cloudflare tunnels.

Basically, don’t point a domain at your home public IP and don’t forward ports on your home router/firewall

Valid

Killing Donny wouldn’t change much, tho.
America has shown it wants Donald or a Donald substitute.

Project 2025 is now Americas playbook.

Other countries changing military suppliers isn’t going to change back to america for 10-15 years (hell, maybe even longer, I dunno what the service life of a jet platform is).
The risk that has surfaced of “America has an off switch” - even just the potential risk of rumors of an off switch - means all those military assets are useless when America elects unhinged leaders that are willing to subvert democratic process in order to run their playbook.
And America has shown it is willing to do that. Even prefers to do that

It’s a server with integrated UPS and KVM console.

No, from the UK.
I don’t understand how the US can want to have 100% paper ballots, but ban voting booths (which to me means, in person voting). This essentially leaves postal voting.
And USPS has been repeatedly targeted by right wing politics.

What kind of paper voting system is left without in-person, if USPS is compromised?

President Donald Trump on Friday [21st Feb 2025, I think] said he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would be an executive branch takeover of the agency, which has operated as an independent entity since 1970. https://apnews.com/article/trump-postal-service-usps-what-to-know-672db6c590837411ca3ba36966e374e1

So paper votes only, no voting booths… Leave postal votes. And the government controls the postal service.
What else is there?