Migrated Again

Wow. I've had this blog since 2002. Waaay back in the day, it was some proprietary format, and I migrated it 13 years ago to trac.

At that time, it was on a dedicated Red Hat box that also acted as my firewall.

At some point since then, I migrated it to vmware - see that topic for some of the problems.

Originally that VM image ran on my CentOS server (cf. ​https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3884 ) and some point it was migrated to my Windows 7 desktop.

Since it was in a VM, I could always snapshot and really beat on it. I had files as far back as 2001 and GPG signatures for my RPMs from Red Hat OS before it was Fedora/RHEL split. Over the years, I've managed to beat it into submission to the point I had it running Fedora 31; of course it's built-in now with dnf system-upgrade. But that's not the point. Fedora 32 broke Python2, and trac isn't there yet. (Side note - the VM has been called webmail for years, but I uninstalled SquirrelMail and moved to Google-hosting many years ago.)

With the COVID-19 quarantine, I decided to migrate this blog to containers so I can just use a pre-defined trac container and go on my merry way. Hopefully less maintenance in the future.

So, that's where it is now. As I tested the site from my wife's iPad (on cellular) I just had to marvel at how data travels to get this post out of my house: 

(you) <=> (Cloudflare) <=> OpenWrt <=> Win10 Pro <=> Hyper-V Docker VM <=> Container [Ephemeral] <=> Docker Volume

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