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diff --git a/content/blog/miscellaneous/eventline-2.md b/content/blog/miscellaneous/eventline-2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d320309 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/miscellaneous/eventline-2.md @@ -0,0 +1,141 @@ +--- +title: "Installation notes of eventline on FreeBSD" +description: My production setup +date: 2022-09-15 +tags: +- Eventline +- FreeBSD +- PostgreSQL +--- + +## Introduction + +Please refer to [the official website](https://www.exograd.com/doc/eventline/handbook.html#_deployment_and_configuration) documentation for an up to date installation guide. This page only lists what I had to do at the time to setup eventline and adapt it to my particular setup. + +## Preparing the postgresql database + +A Postgresql database version 14 or above is the only dependency, let's install it: +```sh +pkg install postgresql14-server postgresql14-contrib +/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql enable +/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb +/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql start +``` + +Now let's provision a database: +```sh +su - postgres +createuser -W eventline +createdb -O eventline eventline +``` + +Connect to the database and activate the pgcryto extension: +```sql +psql -U eventline -W eventline +CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto; +``` + +## Eventline + +Exograd (the company behind eventline) maintains a FreeBSD repository, let's use it: +```sh +curl -sSfL -o /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/exograd-public.conf \ + https://pkg.exograd.com/public/freebsd/exograd.conf +pkg update +pkg install eventline +``` + +Edit the `/usr/local/etc/eventline/eventline.yaml` configuration file: +```yaml +data_directory: "/usr/local/share/eventline" + +api_http_server: + address: "localhost:8085" + +web_http_server: + address: "localhost:8087" + +web_http_server_uri: "https://eventline.adyxax.org/" + +pg: + uri: + "postgres://eventline:XXXXXXXX@localhost:5432/eventline" + +# You need to generate a random encryption, for example using OpenSSL: +# openssl rand -base64 32 +encryption_key: "YYYYYYYY" +``` + +Now start eventline with: +```sh +service eventline enable +service eventline start +``` + +## DNS record + +Since all configuration regarding this application is in terraform, so is the dns: +```hcl +resource "cloudflare_record" "eventline-cname" { + zone_id = lookup(data.cloudflare_zones.adyxax-org.zones[0], "id") + name = "eventline" + value = "10.1.2.5" + type = "A" + proxied = false +} +``` + +This IP is the wireguard endpoint on the server hosting eventline. Having this hostname is important for the ssl certificate validation, otherwise firefox will complain! + +## Nginx configuration + +This nginx configuration listens on the ip of a wireguard interface: +```cfg +server { + listen 10.1.2.5:80; + server_name eventline.adyxax.org; + location / { + return 308 https://$server_name$request_uri; + } +} +# webui +server { + listen 10.1.2.5:443 ssl; + server_name eventline.adyxax.org; + + location / { + proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8087; + include headers_secure.conf; + } + ssl_certificate adyxax.org.fullchain; + ssl_certificate_key adyxax.org.key; +} +# api-server +server { + listen 10.1.2.5:8085 ssl; + server_name eventline.adyxax.org; + + location / { + proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8085; + include headers_secure.conf; + } + ssl_certificate adyxax.org.fullchain; + ssl_certificate_key adyxax.org.key; +} +``` + +## Admin account's password + +Go to the domain you configured (https://eventline.adyxax.org/ for me) and login to your new eventline with username `admin` and password `admin`. Then go to `Account` and click `Change password`. + +## Backups + +Backups are run with borg and stored on `yen.adyxax.org`. I used my [borg ansible role]({{< ref "docs/adyxax.org/backups/borg-ansible-role.md" >}}) for that. There is only one backup job: a pg_dump of eventline's postgresql database + +## Final words + +Eventline is very simple but there is always some sysadmin work to do if you want things done well. + +Also I cleaned up some of my scripts in [a public repository](https://git.adyxax.org/adyxax/ev-scripts/tree/) and will detail my eventline jobs implementation in a next article. + +I am now toying with eventline to orchestrate migrations and tasks for which I relied on ansible, I feel I can simplify and improve things this way! diff --git a/content/blog/miscellaneous/eventline.md b/content/blog/miscellaneous/eventline.md index 44cb6b2..3ba4c98 100644 --- a/content/blog/miscellaneous/eventline.md +++ b/content/blog/miscellaneous/eventline.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Testing eventline description: An open source platform to manage all your scripts and schedule jobs date: 2022-09-03 tags: -- toolbox +- Eventline --- ## Introduction |