How I almost lost access to the Oracle Cloud server
December 07, 2025 #linux

Recently, I tried to set up a network tunnel to access some of my services running on a free-tier Oracle Cloud ARM compute instance. Despite correctly setting the ingress rules and iptables and ufw, there was a problem with opening the UDP port. Then I made a stupid mistake: I routed all the server's traffic through the closed port.

AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0

And

wg-quick up wg0

Immediately, my SSH connection was closed. All my running services stopped responding.

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Kanboard to Gitea migration
August 05, 2025 #sql

Some time ago I decided to move all tasks from Kanboard closer to the projects in my Gitea self-hosted instance. Surprisingly, Gitea doesn't have any importers, so I ended up preparing the data and calling the Gitea API.

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