dpraburaj

Joined 10 years ago

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Developer and tinkerer.

Currently working on https://serverbuddy.app.

Always open for chats/feedback about programming, devops and other topics.

E-mail: prabu at prabusoftware dot com

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Comment · 10 months ago
The silver market is around 10 times smaller than gold. When gold does well(in this case primarily due to central bank buying), usually silver catches up and outperforms gold as speculative interest takes hold. Silver has higher volatility compared to gold, although both can be quite volatile in a bull market.
Comment · 1 year ago
I will add them to the feature pipeline, thanks!
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you!
Comment · 1 year ago
This is built using Swift and SwiftUI. Updates are handled using Sparkle, which seems to be the standard for apps distributed outside the Mac app store.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, the content type has been fixed now. Thank you for the report.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for trying it out!
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for the kind words. I welcome all feedback(good or bad) as I think there's plenty of value in both.

Yep, indie hackers are definitely a target group.

There is support for initial setup such as adding a new sudo user, installing Docker etc. but this isn't a single step operation. I'll write a document for this today or tomorrow.

I've though of adding support for Dokku(or something similar) in a separate tab to make managing apps easier. I will investigate and see what the best option might be.

Comment · 1 year ago
SB is Linux specific(actually even only a few Distro specific such as Debian/Centos flavors) as there are tabs like "Packages" which are very dependent on what package manager is used. There's also functionality for managing Systemd services and I'm not sure if Systemd's being used by other Unixes.

In theory, the app can work on any Posix compliant Unix box and have fallbacks for tabs/sections where functionality is not implemented. However, this would require quite a bit of testing overhead. My current test suite matrix for a bunch of VMs with different auth methods already took quite a bit of effort to get working. I'm not sure I'd be able to ship new features/fixes quickly if the supported OSes list increases, at least for the time being.

Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I will incorporate GPU info and maybe even a distinct Hardware section/tab for other device metrics after some planning.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you!
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, I should have clarified. I'd say ServerBuddy's probably a complementary tool alongside Ansible/Puppet/Salt etc. I have used Ansible quite a bit.

When I need to accomplish something relatively large and standard(e.g. two node MySQL installation with a replica), I'd reach for my Ansible playbooks.

However, there are certain one-off flows for which I think SB has a sweet spot. Let's say I'm an agency managing web apps for multiple clients with separate VPS(es)/bare metal servers for each client.

If I get a ticket saying something's wrong with one of their app or its dependencies(let's say MySQL), it would be very easy for me to check the container health in the Docker tab and then check the detailed logs in the Logs tab to identify the issue. During this investigation, I might also check the Ports and other tabs to check external connectivity.

Another quick one off flow I can think of is to quickly check if everything's working after running an Anisble playbook on my server(s).

It might be worth writing Ansible playbooks for these workflows if one keeps finds they're doing them over and over, but I feel that a GUI option has some merit as well.

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