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Homelab Post Incident Review 11/05/25
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Since it’s important to practice what you preach (apparently) here’s my post incident report on a P1 homelab failure
Timeline # 09:30 - Services slow, services down
10:00 - Attempt to upgrade Ubuntu and reboot VM
I know what tried to kill me
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I finally have some closure on the PE that turned my life upside down at the end of October last year.
I have it written on a piece of NHS branded paper.
Four months on from my Pulmonary Embolism
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“You did it proper.”
Consultant
Adding to my list of things I never want to hear again.
Those words were proceeded by my consultant showing me the images of my chest and the two bright white spots that were the clots that nearly killed me.
Building docker image with Forgejo Actions
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aka how I nearly went crazy trying to figure out how to build docker images in Forgejo Actions.
With the default setup from here you can get up and running with foregjo actions but it won’t allow you to build docker images inside your workflows.
Adding custom runners to Forgejo
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This is one of those problems that now that I get it it really shouldn’t have been so hard. Like everything with development and homelabbing documentation is key.
Huge thanks to: