thein3rovert Log 1767908505

26 Dec, 2025

thein3rovert-log: December 21 – 26, 2025

2025-12-21

I've started the day by setting up zerobyte to handle the backup automation of my management infrastructure. On the family side, it's been a fun day; I watched a boxing video with my mom and siblings—it was hilarious to see how happy my mom got watching the fight. Later, we all settled down to watch The Grinch together. I also managed to create a CR for my hybrid cloud setup.

2025-12-22

My sister and I ended up staying up late watching a documentary about Simon Cowell and his search for the next big boy band. It was a great bonding moment that allowed me to give her some brotherly life advice about confidence and being yourself, based on the anxiety and skill we saw the kids on the show displaying.

With the new year approaching, I am starting to think about my 2026 resolutions. I am proud that I achieved the top items on my 2025 list, and now I want to focus on a "new year, clean mind" approach. This involves a massive cleanup of my Obsidian vault, moving quick dump notes to their proper folders and adding the right tags so I don't start the year overwhelmed.

Infrastructure and Secrets

2025-12-23

I finally finished setting up Garage on my VPS instance. It took a while to manage the secret credentials because agenix cannot decrypt keys directly into the Garage config. I found a workaround by using an environmentFile attribute to pass in extra environments, which then pulls the values from the decrypted agenix file.

I also investigated hosting Garage on an Incus LXC container to keep it off the main VPS. However, I hit a snag: my VPS can’t reach the LXC IP without relying on Tailscale, which I’m trying to avoid for this specific setup. For now, it stays on the VPS.

The Dashboard Project

2025-12-24

I’ve built a simple infrastructure dashboard that runs in a single Incus container. It uses a Python loop to clear the screen and redraw every five seconds. It pulls stats from my NixOS host using incus list --format=json and from my Proxmox host via SSH to check container and VM uptimes. It's a great way to see the status of everything from lxc-web to vm-lab at a glance.

[nixos-host]        uptime: 12d
 ├─ lxc-web         3d   ✔
 ├─ lxc-db          6h   ✔
 └─ lxc-monitor     1d   ✔

[proxmox-host]      uptime: 34d
 ├─ ct-media        21d  ✔
 ├─ ct-backup       4d   ✔
 └─ vm-lab          2d   ✔

2025-12-26

It is officially the end of the year. I want to write a full reflection of my year and everything that has happened, but I’m honestly not sure where to start yet.