#ci-cd

Auto-deployments with systemd

Hi! I like Kubernetes, and having written my own operators in the past, you quickly grow fond of the high level of automation that it allows you to achieve. However, now that I’m spending the days building my own projects , my requirements (and budget) can’t fit k8s anymore. A couple of production VPSs and my GitHub Actions free quota is all I’m allowing myself to afford on vanity projects, so let’s work with what we have. GitHub Actions already builds the Canastra binary, so I’m just missing is a way to auto-deploy it to the production VPS. This is composed of tw

Rafael Kassner · EN

Home A-CI-stant

Hi! For years I lurked in the Home Assistant channel of a community Discord, but never had much interest in it. Earlier this month I had some discount coupons in hand and decided that it was time to give it a go. I got Home Assistant, the ZBT-1 and one IKEA Inspelning and managed to make it control my balcony lights. In my opinion, the sun “device” in Home Assistant might be the most underrated out-of-the-box integration! In any case, I live in an apartment, so after that I was mostly done. I don’t have much else to automate, and I do really value physical buttons, so it all

Rafael Kassner · EN

How We Stabilized a Bazel CI Runner by Fixing Resource Limits and Container Cleanup

Bazel builds kept getting OOM-killed on a CI runner whose config promised 25 CPUs it did not have. How hard cgroup caps and three days of retuning settled the m

Hacker Noon · EN