Automation
Digital Garden
One of my needs is an easy setup for gardening. I need to be able to write notes on all of my devices, including my phone. gitea has a built-in Markdown editor, so I can edit text and work with git at the same time. The content is rendered by mdBook.
On my server I created a user
useradd --system --create-home --home-dir /var/lib/mdbook --shell /usr/sbin/nologin --comment "mdbook Digital Garden" mdbook
For this user, I create a new ssh-key. When asked where to store it, I choose /var/lib/mdbook/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"
In gitea, I use the option for deploy-keys and add above key. Deploy keys are read only for a specific repository.
To /var/lib/mdbook I add a build.sh script
#!/bin/bash
cd /var/lib/mdbook/garden
/usr/bin/git pull -q
/usr/bin/mdbook build -d /usr/share/garden /var/lib/mdbook/garden
And a cronjob in /etc/crontab
* * * * * mdbook /var/lib/mdbook/build.sh