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Posting to social media from ghost using Kestra

Previously, I have set up webhooks which trigger when my ghost blog posts go live. In order to show the world what I have written, I usually post on to social media. To be honest, I find posting a bit of a chore. I have set up an account on Bluesky and Mastodon too.

Restarting Gitlab via Ansible and Kestra

One of the great things about running Kestra is that, that if I do a job more than a few times, I can script it and make it re-occur very quickly and easily. Gitlab, when it changes major versions, doesn't appear to like that. Also, the service doesn't appear to want to be enabled.

Using Kestra to update my proxmox IPSet

I've been using Kestra for a while now to automate some of the more mundane tasks around my network. One of these tasks is keeping the firewall up to date. This blog sits behind cloudflare, and as such, only cloudflare needs to access it. All other sources should be be denied (except internally).

Triggering kestra on posting to Ghost

I have had a few issues publishing posts on a schedule recently, mostly down the fact that I sit behind cloudflare. One of the things I wanted to do was check that the post had published. Yes, I could hop on to the blog and look, but I would much prefer to be told.

Automating Air filters

Recently I was watching a Thomas Sanladerer (Making with Layers) video on youtube about the emission of gases from 3D prints. Like Thomas, I am concerned about the fumes that come from my 3D printers and I'm interested in ways to reduce them, especially around my young son.

FreePBX and Zen Digital Voice

As part of a money saving effort along with improving my internet speeds, I needed to do something with the telephone number coming in to my house. Fortunately, I have been playing with Asterisk for quite a few years now.

Updating docker hosts with Kestra

Patching is a balancing act. There are some who say you shouldn't if it works, others who say you should, but stay a certain about of time behind and those that think that bleed edge is the way to stay protected.

More Kestra Automation

While I am working through some issues and they may well be the subject of another post, this time I thought I'd shamelessly extend what I have done before extended with some of Christian Lempa's files.

Kestra webhooks and Home assistant

Welcome back to another blog post on Kestra. Starting from where I left off last time, I'm going to try to fix a few little niggles I had with the time based triggers.

Automating Ansible playbooks with Kestra

Recently, after watch Christian Lempa videos, I have started playing about with Kestra. Kestra is a work flow orcestration platform to schedule playbooks or tirgger them when I want them. Example using unpackerr.