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title: "adyxax.org"
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adyxax.org is my personal computer infrastructure. This section details how I built it and why, and how I maintain it.
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## What is adyxax.org?
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adyxax.org is very much like a small personnal cloud of servers hosted here and there. I am using my experience as a
sysadmin to make it all work and provide various services that are useful to me and people that are close to me. As a good sysadmin, I am trying to be lazy and build the most self
maintainable solution, with as little maintenance overhead as possible.
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It relies on mostly gentoo (and some optional openbsd) servers interconnected with point to point openvpn links. Services run inside lxd containers and communications between all those services work
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thanks to dynamic routing with bird and ospf along those openvpn links.
## Why write about it?
It is a rather unusual infrastructure that I am proud of, and writing about it helps me to reflect on what I built. Gentoo, OpenBSD and LXD is not the most popular combination of
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technologies but I leveraged it to build something simple, flexible and I believe somewhat elegant and beautiful.