Fresh/Brewed

In moving our primary blogging system from Github over to a self hosted Gitea, we need to sort out how to best create a proper HA DR environment. This means having some push mirrors. The first thing I did when i setup Gitea to be the “real” repo for this blog was to mirror it to Forgejo. However that instance is on the same cluster, so if there is a catastrophic outage, then I would expect both to be down and have to rely on whatever my last local clone happens to be.

I have been rocking a Jekyll blog now since around 2021. This blogging site started out in 2019 using Ghost which I automated back then with Azure DevOps. Over all this time, I have written over 500 posts and just the CICD updates, for which I have optimized as best i can are 16 to 25 minutes long. The blogs Github repo is nearly 25Gb expanded! I’ll admit that I am a data hoarder (my wife may just scratch out the word “data” there). I have a hard time purging anything. I have a box of Palm pilots, Windows XP tablet PCs and a working MiniDisc recorder (I will never give it up).