Add gitea and woodpecker CI

.vscode/tasks.json

@@ -14,13 +14,6 @@
       "type": "shell",
       "command": "hugo -D",
       "problemMatcher": []
-    },
-    {
-      "label": "publish",
-      "type": "shell",
-      "command": "rsync -av ./public/ /var/www/",
-      "problemMatcher": [],
-      "dependsOn": "build"
     }
   ]
 }

content/posts/2022.05.29.my-new-backup-kopia.md

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 toc: false
 images:
 tags:
-  - untagged
+  - homelab
 ---
 
 I've recently switched to [Kopia](https://kopia.io/) after having some trouble with Duplicati. There
@@ -62,4 +62,3 @@ gitignores. I have 13 snapshots of this, which in total take up 4.9GB on disk.
 
 I have Kopia set up to use pgzip compression which seems to be the best option
 in terms of compression speed versus storage size.
-

content/posts/2022.11.19.automating-my-blog-with-gitea-and-woodpecker.md

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+---
+title: "Automating My Blog With Gitea and Woodpecker"
+date: 2022-11-19T12:21:40-05:00
+toc: false
+images:
+tags:
+  - homelab
+---
+
+I had been using Gitea for a while. If you haven't heard of it before, it's a
+"git forge" meaning a website where you can host git repositories, track issues,
+accepts pull requests and so on. If you have seen Github, it's just like that.
+My Gitea is for personal use only, but I do keep it accessible publicly: https://gitea.bgenc.net/
+
+I have been using this personal instance to keep a few small experiments and my
+personal blog, but one thing I've found missing was a CI. Again in case you are
+unfamiliar, CIs are tools that automate processes in your projects. For example,
+you could automate a testing process so the code gets tested every time a pull
+request is created. Or automate a release so the code gets built and uploaded
+when a new version is tagged on git.
+
+I hadn't looked into a CI since I wasn't using my Gitea for anything important,
+and for any "big" project I could just use Github and get their free Github
+Actions for public repositories. But I recently started working on some projects
+I'd rather keep private, and thought that having a CI to automate testing on
+them would be useful.
+
+After looking around for a CI and not finding a lot that I like, I came across
+[Woodpecker CI](https://woodpecker-ci.org/). Woodpecker is a relatively simple
+CI system: it's all built on top of Docker and runs everything in containers.
+You specify your actions as container images and steps to be executed inside
+those images... and that's all!
+
+Setting up Woodpecker and connecting it to Gitea was a breeze, you just point a
+few variables to Gitea and create an app on Gitea, then you're done! It uses
+OAuth to log you into Woodpecker through Gitea, and automatically grabs all your
+repositories. All you have to do is hit enable on Woodpecker, then add a
+`.woodpecker.yml` to your repository.
+
+I ended up trying out Woodpecker with 2 repositories:
+
+- The first is a [containers](https://gitea.bgenc.net/kaan/containers)
+  repository: I realized that I might need to create some simple container
+  images to use in my Woodpecker pipelines so this is a repository to keep these
+  simple images. The containers are also automatically built with Woodpecker:
+  there's a Woodpecker plugin (the plugin itself is a container too!) to build
+  and publish docker containers so the process is trivial.
+- The second is [this blog](https://gitea.bgenc.net/kaan/bgenc.net)! I used to
+  just manually run the build for this and rsync it over to my server. But with
+  Woodpecker I was able to automate this process. Using a hugo container, the
+  blog gets built. Then I use a container I created to then `rsync` it over to
+  my server. I created a special system user that has ownership over the `www`
+  folder, who can only log in with an SSH key that's stored as a Woodpecker
+  secret.
+
+The whole process absolutely amazed me! Woodpecker is missing a few minor
+features I would have liked, like the ability to trigger builds with a click
+(like github actions `workflow_dispatch` option) or to trigger builds with a
+timer. A timer would have been especially useful with my `containers` repository
+to keep all the containers up to date. But I imagine this will be possible
+eventually. At the very least, it looks like they are working on a
+[CLI](https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/next/cli) for the next version of
+Woodpecker which can start pipelines, so it would be possible to set up a timer
+with a bit of scripting.