Notes while I fiddle with the servers

October 22, 2026

Move from Debian to Flatcar on the main server.
I wanted to move to something completely black box and appliance like Talos, but I am not that brave. I still want my K3s, and my instance is not that large that I can run full fat Kubernetes.

Good I decided to review my files. If I had just generated a new instance on Hetzner, I might have paid double for the instance I use (CPX32)
Moved my terraform state from s3 to local.
S3 meant my self hosted Garage instance. Found that I did not use it as much as I intended. So will retire it. (That will probably be phase two when I revamp the home network). Since last December I’ve hardly touched the state of the VM. So makes sense for me to maintain state locally.
Found that OpenTofu can encrypt at rest local tf state files. Time to move from Terraform to OpenTofu
2026-10-22 10:45: Buggered it up enough, between backups and moving VMs that the current thing will destroy my VM. that is what I don’t want! will need to see what to do. But the dream of just changing enough stuff is gone now.
my dream of an entirely gitops driven workflow is undone by the ai-pocalypse
options? am too used to this machine to downgrade. so will manually nurse it.
worst case option? will downgrade if it comes to that.