Hardware

I’ve written in the past that this blog is a playground for me to try various tools and play with code around it. Jenkins has been my choice as the CI for it since the start, mostly since it was something I’m used to. However, I’ve also stated that running it on an old laptop with no real backups is a recipe for disaster. I have since rectified the issue by hiding the laptop under a box in a closet but that meant moving away from Jenkins to something that’s lighter and more portable. The choice is the self-hosted enterprise edition of Drone. ...

I’ve recently had my birthday and as a gift decided to give myself a NUC. The intention here is that I could replace the old laptop running Jenkins and Grafana with something that’s a bit more silent and in a smaller form factor. Note that I’m not affiliated with any of the hardware manufacturers in any way shape or form. The planned change The laptop I’ve been using for Jenkins has become rather critical for this blog and a few side projects I’ve got. This meant that I first needed to find a way to migrate everything to a new machine that would be coming. I’ve then focused on rewriting my infra to code with the help of Ansible®. Even though I’m not a super big fan of it I’ve managed to write everything as an Ansible playbook. I did, however, skip the Jenkins and moved towards Drone CI instead. With this complete, I needed to figure out what type of a machine I might want to go for. ...