Easter Thread: CrunchEaster Peepers

barbaros · April 2025

At this point I can't be sure if actual company name is @crunchbits or @crankbis

It seems marketing is doing a really good job.

Smigit · April 2025

@plumberg said:

@wadhah said:

@plumberg said:

@Decicus said:

@wadhah said:
beszel v0.11.0 dropped yesterday

make sure to update your idlers

my im love ansibel

Like key based auth, I have ansible in the back burner

One day

this is a horror sentence, you still use password auth in 2025??

i learned ansible because @Decicus keps hammering me about how great it was. Took a couple of days but now I love it, i have like 3 fully custom playbooks already

Would really love to learn about your playbooks and how to use effectively.

Any plan to share it with community?

This link has what I was working on to to automate beszel deployment using the docker agent version. Added a bit ontop of that to execute the add-server script, but don’t think I made any other major changes. I’m using 1Password to store secrets etc and have beszel using the 1Password CLI to interact with my vault.

Initial post: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4360946/#Comment_4360946

Extra play to run a local script to add the new server to Beszel

  - name: Create Beszel server object using Node script 
    delegate_to: localhost
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      cmd: "node ./configs/beszel/AddServer.js --username {{ beszel_username }} --password {{ beszel_password }} --name '{{ friendly_name }}' --ip {{ tailscale_ipv4 }} --port {{ beszel_port }}"

plumberg · April 2025

@barbaros said:
At this point I can't be sure if actual company name is @crunchbits or @crankbis

It seems marketing is doing a really good job.

CrankBis, always ♥️

wadhah · April 2025

@barbaros said:
At this point I can't be sure if actual company name is @crunchbits or @crankbis

It seems marketing is doing a really good job.

Hi @barbaros -- Appreciate you expanding with CrankBis! 👊

We've gone ahead and doubled your bandwidth resources successfully. — if you ever need anything, we'll be here to help

wadhah · April 2025

@Smigit said:

@plumberg said:

@wadhah said:

@plumberg said:

@Decicus said:

@wadhah said:
beszel v0.11.0 dropped yesterday

make sure to update your idlers

my im love ansibel

Like key based auth, I have ansible in the back burner

One day

this is a horror sentence, you still use password auth in 2025??

i learned ansible because @Decicus keps hammering me about how great it was. Took a couple of days but now I love it, i have like 3 fully custom playbooks already

Would really love to learn about your playbooks and how to use effectively.

Any plan to share it with community?

This link has what I was working on to to automate beszel deployment using the docker agent version. Added a bit ontop of that to execute the add-server script, but don’t think I made any other major changes. I’m using 1Password to store secrets etc and have beszel using the 1Password CLI to interact with my vault.

Initial post: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4360946/#Comment_4360946

Extra play to run a local script to add the new server to Beszel
  - name: Create Beszel server object using Node script 
    delegate_to: localhost
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      cmd: "node ./configs/beszel/AddServer.js --username {{ beszel_username }} --password {{ beszel_password }} --name '{{ friendly_name }}' --ip {{ tailscale_ipv4 }} --port {{ beszel_port }}" 

look at this dude with the fancy tailscale ip variable

plumberg · April 2025

@Smigit said:

@plumberg said:

@wadhah said:

@plumberg said:

@Decicus said:

@wadhah said:
beszel v0.11.0 dropped yesterday

make sure to update your idlers

my im love ansibel

Like key based auth, I have ansible in the back burner

One day

this is a horror sentence, you still use password auth in 2025??

i learned ansible because @Decicus keps hammering me about how great it was. Took a couple of days but now I love it, i have like 3 fully custom playbooks already

Would really love to learn about your playbooks and how to use effectively.

Any plan to share it with community?

This link has what I was working on to to automate beszel deployment using the docker agent version. Added a bit ontop of that to execute the add-server script, but don’t think I made any other major changes. I’m using 1Password to store secrets etc and have beszel using the 1Password CLI to interact with my vault.

Initial post: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4360946/#Comment_4360946

Extra play to run a local script to add the new server to Beszel
  - name: Create Beszel server object using Node script 
    delegate_to: localhost
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      cmd: "node ./configs/beszel/AddServer.js --username {{ beszel_username }} --password {{ beszel_password }} --name '{{ friendly_name }}' --ip {{ tailscale_ipv4 }} --port {{ beszel_port }}" 

This is awesome. I'll need to spend some more time understanding whats happening here.

Thanks.

Smigit · April 2025

@plumberg said:
@Smigit said:

@plumberg said:

@wadhah said:

@plumberg said:

@Decicus said:

@wadhah said:
beszel v0.11.0 dropped yesterday

make sure to update your idlers

my im love ansibel

Like key based auth, I have ansible in the back burner

One day

this is a horror sentence, you still use password auth in 2025??

i learned ansible because @Decicus keps hammering me about how great it was. Took a couple of days but now I love it, i have like 3 fully custom playbooks already

Would really love to learn about your playbooks and how to use effectively.

Any plan to share it with community?

This link has what I was working on to to automate beszel deployment using the docker agent version. Added a bit ontop of that to execute the add-server script, but don’t think I made any other major changes. I’m using 1Password to store secrets etc and have beszel using the 1Password CLI to interact with my vault.

Initial post: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4360946/#Comment_4360946

Extra play to run a local script to add the new server to Beszel
  - name: Create Beszel server object using Node script 
    delegate_to: localhost
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      cmd: "node ./configs/beszel/AddServer.js --username {{ beszel_username }} --password {{ beszel_password }} --name '{{ friendly_name }}' --ip {{ tailscale_ipv4 }} --port {{ beszel_port }}" 
This is awesome. I'll need to spend some more time understanding whats happening here.

Thanks.

No worries. Can add any commentary when I’m home this arvo to explain anything. I’m pretty new to Ansible, started playing with it when the Onidel megathread was in full swing. Currently got it set up such that if I have a root account with SSH access to a server, I’ll then:

run initial server updates
Do some base installs like sudo etc
Add an initial user and setup their ssh access. Also set a password and add or update my 1Password vault with the generated credentials
update server ssh config to remove password auth etc
Install and configure UFW for SSH access only
Set server to my Timezone
Roll out Tailscale and configure it for my account. There’s a pause here as I have Tailscale Lock enabled so after enrolment I go in and manually authorise the server and set the servers access to not expire. Because I’m running ansiblenin a signing node, I’m hoping I could automate this but I haven’t looked into it
Install docker
Install beszel as a dockerised instance and automatically register in my beszel instance. Beszel agents set up to use Tailscale rather than public IP since I don’t expose everything.

I think that’s it so far

I was going to add some Restic configuration but yet to do that. Also haven’t yet added a playbook for running updates, but will do that soon because it’ll make updating to the latest beszel easier.

I’d also like to eventually do one to install nginx and configure a reverse proxy and request the letsencrypt certs automatically, for web server stuff. Again haven’t done this yet but might speed up web stuff.

The final one I was thinking of was to have one that’s update a spreadsheet or wiki page or something with ip addresses, server specs etc because I’m terrible at doing such a thing and maybe Ansible could just streamline the whole thing for me.

Uptime kuma registrations on my wish list but there isn’t an API for that I don’t think…on the devs roadmap for after 2.0 ships

2little2lateee · April 2025

@FAT32 said: My worst is now Host-C

3.2GB RAM
32GB NVMe
3.2TB Bandwidth @ 500Mbps
IPv6 only
$3.2/yr
But will I sell? Probably no

ok give me $7.77 and I probably say yes and accept it

Neoon · April 2025

Neoon · April 2025

@beanman109 said:

@FAT32 said:
So much invested and yet still no sign of extra touch

(Only thing I get is asking me to merge my VPS so I forfeit my IPv4)

me seeing @FAT32 has 14 Host-C services

That is a lot of porn.

default · April 2025

@Neoon said:

@beanman109 said:

@FAT32 said:
So much invested and yet still no sign of extra touch

(Only thing I get is asking me to merge my VPS so I forfeit my IPv4)

me seeing @FAT32 has 14 Host-C services

That is a lot of porn.

Neoon · April 2025

@default said:

@Neoon said:

@beanman109 said:

@FAT32 said:
So much invested and yet still no sign of extra touch

(Only thing I get is asking me to merge my VPS so I forfeit my IPv4)

me seeing @FAT32 has 14 Host-C services

That is a lot of porn.

plumberg · April 2025

@Smigit said:
@plumberg said:
@Smigit said:

@plumberg said:

@wadhah said:

@plumberg said:

@Decicus said:

@wadhah said:
beszel v0.11.0 dropped yesterday

make sure to update your idlers

my im love ansibel

Like key based auth, I have ansible in the back burner

One day

this is a horror sentence, you still use password auth in 2025??

i learned ansible because @Decicus keps hammering me about how great it was. Took a couple of days but now I love it, i have like 3 fully custom playbooks already

Would really love to learn about your playbooks and how to use effectively.

Any plan to share it with community?

This link has what I was working on to to automate beszel deployment using the docker agent version. Added a bit ontop of that to execute the add-server script, but don’t think I made any other major changes. I’m using 1Password to store secrets etc and have beszel using the 1Password CLI to interact with my vault.

Initial post: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4360946/#Comment_4360946

Extra play to run a local script to add the new server to Beszel
  - name: Create Beszel server object using Node script 
    delegate_to: localhost
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      cmd: "node ./configs/beszel/AddServer.js --username {{ beszel_username }} --password {{ beszel_password }} --name '{{ friendly_name }}' --ip {{ tailscale_ipv4 }} --port {{ beszel_port }}" 
This is awesome. I'll need to spend some more time understanding whats happening here.

Thanks.
No worries. Can add any commentary when I’m home this arvo to explain anything. I’m pretty new to Ansible, started playing with it when the Onidel megathread was in full swing. Currently got it set up such that if I have a root account with SSH access to a server, I’ll then:

run initial server updates

Do some base installs like sudo etc

Add an initial user and setup their ssh access. Also set a password and add or update my 1Password vault with the generated credentials

update server ssh config to remove password auth etc

Install and configure UFW for SSH access only

Set server to my Timezone

Roll out Tailscale and configure it for my account. There’s a pause here as I have Tailscale Lock enabled so after enrolment I go in and manually authorise the server and set the servers access to not expire. Because I’m running ansiblenin a signing node, I’m hoping I could automate this but I haven’t looked into it

Install docker

Install beszel as a dockerised instance and automatically register in my beszel instance. Beszel agents set up to use Tailscale rather than public IP since I don’t expose everything.

I think that’s it so far

I was going to add some Restic configuration but yet to do that. Also haven’t yet added a playbook for running updates, but will do that soon because it’ll make updating to the latest beszel easier.

I’d also like to eventually do one to install nginx and configure a reverse proxy and request the letsencrypt certs automatically, for web server stuff. Again haven’t done this yet but might speed up web stuff.

The final one I was thinking of was to have one that’s update a spreadsheet or wiki page or something with ip addresses, server specs etc because I’m terrible at doing such a thing and maybe Ansible could just streamline the whole thing for me.

Uptime kuma registrations on my wish list but there isn’t an API for that I don’t think…on the devs roadmap for after 2.0 ships

Woot

That is a tall list you have achieved in a short time... kudos to you on that.

Definitely makes server management easy for sure.

For reverse proxy et all, if i can make a sucmgges, try out caddy. Natively manages let's encrypt certs with auto renewal, super light weight, highly configurable and good community support. Usually works out of the box with reverse proxy being 2 lines of config and it handles ssl automatically

Last piece of updating ips and all server specs would be a great addition. I started off with a spreadsheet and now it's as stale as it could be...

Awesome work, thanks for sharing.

Would love to hear more on your learnings, to do/ pitfalls along your journey for us nerds

Smigit · April 2025

@plumberg said:
@Smigit said:
@plumberg said:
@Smigit said:

@plumberg said:

@wadhah said:

@plumberg said:

@Decicus said:

@wadhah said:
beszel v0.11.0 dropped yesterday

make sure to update your idlers

my im love ansibel

Like key based auth, I have ansible in the back burner

One day

this is a horror sentence, you still use password auth in 2025??

i learned ansible because @Decicus keps hammering me about how great it was. Took a couple of days but now I love it, i have like 3 fully custom playbooks already

Would really love to learn about your playbooks and how to use effectively.

Any plan to share it with community?

This link has what I was working on to to automate beszel deployment using the docker agent version. Added a bit ontop of that to execute the add-server script, but don’t think I made any other major changes. I’m using 1Password to store secrets etc and have beszel using the 1Password CLI to interact with my vault.

Initial post: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4360946/#Comment_4360946

Extra play to run a local script to add the new server to Beszel
  - name: Create Beszel server object using Node script 
    delegate_to: localhost
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      cmd: "node ./configs/beszel/AddServer.js --username {{ beszel_username }} --password {{ beszel_password }} --name '{{ friendly_name }}' --ip {{ tailscale_ipv4 }} --port {{ beszel_port }}" 
This is awesome. I'll need to spend some more time understanding whats happening here.

Thanks.
No worries. Can add any commentary when I’m home this arvo to explain anything. I’m pretty new to Ansible, started playing with it when the Onidel megathread was in full swing. Currently got it set up such that if I have a root account with SSH access to a server, I’ll then:

run initial server updates

Do some base installs like sudo etc

Add an initial user and setup their ssh access. Also set a password and add or update my 1Password vault with the generated credentials

update server ssh config to remove password auth etc

Install and configure UFW for SSH access only

Set server to my Timezone

Roll out Tailscale and configure it for my account. There’s a pause here as I have Tailscale Lock enabled so after enrolment I go in and manually authorise the server and set the servers access to not expire. Because I’m running ansiblenin a signing node, I’m hoping I could automate this but I haven’t looked into it

Install docker

Install beszel as a dockerised instance and automatically register in my beszel instance. Beszel agents set up to use Tailscale rather than public IP since I don’t expose everything.

I think that’s it so far

I was going to add some Restic configuration but yet to do that. Also haven’t yet added a playbook for running updates, but will do that soon because it’ll make updating to the latest beszel easier.

I’d also like to eventually do one to install nginx and configure a reverse proxy and request the letsencrypt certs automatically, for web server stuff. Again haven’t done this yet but might speed up web stuff.

The final one I was thinking of was to have one that’s update a spreadsheet or wiki page or something with ip addresses, server specs etc because I’m terrible at doing such a thing and maybe Ansible could just streamline the whole thing for me.

Uptime kuma registrations on my wish list but there isn’t an API for that I don’t think…on the devs roadmap for after 2.0 ships
Woot

That is a tall list you have achieved in a short time... kudos to you on that.

Definitely makes server management easy for sure.

For reverse proxy et all, if i can make a sucmgges, try out caddy. Natively manages let's encrypt certs with auto renewal, super light weight, highly configurable and good community support. Usually works out of the box with reverse proxy being 2 lines of config and it handles ssl automatically

Last piece of updating ips and all server specs would be a great addition. I started off with a spreadsheet and now it's as stale as it could be...

Awesome work, thanks for sharing.

Would love to hear more on your learnings, to do/ pitfalls along your journey for us nerds

Thanks for the pointer, I’ll give Caddy a look.

The main thing I had issues with was the 1Password CLI. Got it working initially and then added more hosts and everything became super unreliable. Concluded that the CLI calls really needs to be run synchronously otherwise it all trips over itself. I could have used Ansibles built in vault but I like the fact my server passwords exist in my main password manager, which is how I was using it already anyway.

default · April 2025

Offers no longer seem to appear. It has been more than a week since Easter. Should we call it? Maybe it is time for The @FAT32 to sing and end this megathread. It has been a great ride.

NaughtyWombat · April 2025

@default said:
Offers no longer seem to appear. It has been more than a week since Easter. Should we call it? Maybe it is time for The @FAT32 to sing and end this megathread. It has been a great ride.

Agree, it's time to close now.

nghialele · April 2025

Morning gentlements, congrats @wadhah on becoming new crankbis.com reseller.

nghialele · April 2025

@wadhah said:

@plumberg said:

@Decicus said:

@wadhah said:
beszel v0.11.0 dropped yesterday

make sure to update your idlers

my im love ansibel

Like key based auth, I have ansible in the back burner

One day

this is a horror sentence, you still use password auth in 2025??

i learned ansible because @Decicus keps hammering me about how great it was. Took a couple of days but now I love it, i have like 3 fully custom playbooks already

Can I have some links for dummy?

zGato · April 2025

@brauni said:
@zGato how much ram/cpu does the nezha dashboard use?
you disabled the remote stuff, right?

better late than never i guess (just got electricity and cellular back from this insane outage, still no water tho lol)

as of right now (launched it like 30 min ago) this is the current usage:
9.84% 205.8MiB / 31.33GiB

probably goes up by a bit when there's multiple people in the page

FAT32 · April 2025

So which server should I cancel

plumberg · April 2025

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

Never cancel
Only transfer to me/ us

FAT32 · April 2025

@plumberg said:

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

Never cancel
Only transfer to me/ us

Sir most of them are non-transferable

beanman109 · April 2025

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

The one hosting LET please

FAT32 · April 2025

@beanman109 said:

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

The one hosting LET please

One moment

beanman109 · April 2025

@FAT32 said:

@beanman109 said:

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

The one hosting LET please

One moment

RIP LET IT WAS A GOOD RUN

barbaros · April 2025

@default said:
Offers no longer seem to appear. It has been more than a week since Easter. Should we call it? Maybe it is time for The @FAT32 to sing and end this megathread. It has been a great ride.

We are waiting @Saragoldfarb to lock her thread

barbaros · April 2025

@beanman109 said:

@FAT32 said:

@beanman109 said:

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

The one hosting LET please

One moment

RIP LET IT WAS A GOOD RUN

admax · April 2025

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

FAT32 Transfer Megathread Launch

barbaros · April 2025

@onidel said:
Please reach out if you have any issues or need anything

@onidel just saw this post on your sales thread but didnt want to derail it.

As you said we can reach out if we need anything. So, can we get some 7€ / year deals please? Thank you

barbaros · April 2025

@admax said:

@FAT32 said:
So which server should I cancel

FAT32 Transfer Megathread Launch

Where is the link? I can’t click on it.

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