@@ZiRo815 that's why I shouted him out. Lol and he commented. You're totally right. You don't have to do it that way if you don't need secrets. I found if you want to learn how to secure things then you should practice it.

@@wolfbyte1555 re doing my git repos and need update this video description. Will do it soon. Trying to get back into making new vids. Doing a new blog/docs site too

@@brockhard cheers! Looking forward to it! Thanks!

@@brockhard waiting for the code too :)

@@eznomewe extremely

@@brockhard sorry, that was mean of me. It's just that it's so absurd to see these overedited tutorials on really basic sysadmin topics that are better conveyed through text. and the fact that this is a teaser, as if this is some kind of heavily-anticipated event, is the kind of thing usually only the confused Indians do for some inexplicable content farming reasons, and it gave me a visceral reaction. But you do you. I'm glad you're having fun, practicing your video editing, etc. Apologies again for insulting your video.

Hey thank you!!! I would recommend using public gitlab and then just hosting your own gitlab runner. I'm thinking that's what I should do next. This way the gitlab runner uses a runner token you make in gitlab and then it can run jobs for you private gitlab group and since it's local in your environment you can have it access some services you host. I use it to deploy local DNS record with terraform on my pihole.

I think I have a video deploying the runner in docker and connecting it to your gitlab group. If you wanna deploy the runner in kunernetes you would helm install it instead of the way in my video

@@brockhard okay awesome, I'll try that out next with public gitlab. and thanks a ton for the fast reply! Last question for you, maybe I'll figure it out soon. This is my first time doing anything like this as I mentioned so I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but even GPT4 isnt helping me find the root cause lol... When I try to run "make main-cluster", I get this output: $ make main-cluster ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts.yml playbooks/main_cluster.yml ERROR! Attempting to decrypt but no vault secrets found Do I need to create a new vault secrets file or something? Thanks once more.

@@brockhard Thanks for your fast response! :) I'll definitely try that. DOH! I also answered my other question I was going to ask... which was I couldnt get the make command or playbooks to work for the life of me... I had to rename "vault-template.yml" to just vault.yml and that got things going finally. Awesome script!

Glad I was able to help!!!

I've actually never used docker swarm. That's something I am interested in trying in the future.

Why not fluentbit instead of promtail? Lol I just like the fluentbit product

@@brockhard why do you like it over promtail?

I like fluentbit because it has more options and configuration. Promtail is designed to work for Loki and fluentbit is designed to be a logging service that can connect to a lot of different providers so I like using fluentbit because it's a more flexible solution and also pretty easy to configure and doesn't lock me in to the grafana stack

I have had days of not knowing why packer wasn't working hahahah my 5th time attempting this it just worked lol. I have not been successful with the cicd part. I use gitlab ci and currently just have a docker runner and it has issues connecting with proxmox for some reason.

@@brockhard I had an issue using the http server so I mounted a cdrom with the http data and passed it that way. Id be more than happy to share my workaround.

Thank you for the feedback. Will remember that for the next one!

It may be hahaha I installed the traefik dash and it said it was still needed so I just added it

Yeah it's a bummer for sure. I love the gitops workflow though. I actually just made a cli too that a project can use to update the image in a docker compose file. Making a video on that right now. Https://gitlab.com/spakl/bookie

Hahaha yeah what a pain, I can't believe it's deprecated already lol. Will have to figure out the iso implementation

You know I just didn't try it out haha if you have does it work better?

​@@brockhard I'm encountering issues in the packer section of your repository. When I attempt the 'validate' command, I'm met with an error stating "proxmox is deprecated, please use proxmox-iso instead." I'm using packer version 1.9.2 on Windows 11. (you're on macOS). Can you confirm if your code aligns with the most recent packer version?

@@ReviewSmartTech it's crazy how fast things can depreciate. I did the video in Mac but I wrote the code using Linux. I'll have to work on updating the code to the proxmox-iso. It's on my list haha

Used this today, thank you!!!!

In the works!! Hopefully pretty soon

Thank you!!

Thank you. I only scratched the surface on some of the features.. will probably make another in the future to configure it further. Great product!

I was trying to get that to work but was having a hard time. I'll have to revisit it and check it out. Although I am looking to make a dedicated machine for pfsense and we probably move it off proxmox sometime soon

@@brockhard depending on what you want it to do for you, there are many advantages to using a pfsense on proxmox setup to handle traffic on your proxmox machine or cluster, especially if you set up vlans. - there's no physical interface bottleneck if you keep your vlans on the proxmox setup. (I have a border router that unfortunately has 2.5g interfaces but my proxmox cluster (and most of the other devices on my wired network are 10g) so I use pfsense on the proxmox cluster to handle routing of all my internal vlan traffic (both physical lan and proxmox lan) and let the baremetal pfsense box handle all my border traffic. to keep my 2g fiber internet snappy (and reduce the complexity at the border). I'm currently building out this setup.

I'm glad! Working on more. Also trying to figure out video editing so the videos should improve!