At home, I had converted my previously gaming computer into a server for my primary document and photo storage using TrueNAS Scale.
TrueNAS Scale is a platform on top of Debian, bundled with k3s. Naturally, the team behind TrueNAS took the opportunity to support Helm Charts for managing applications.
I have configured a domain (e.g. mydomain.com) and its wildcard subdomain (e.g. *.mydomain.com) to point to my TrueNAS server. This allows me to access my applications using the same root domain, differentiated by subdomains (e.g. app1.mydomain.com, app2.mydomain.com).
As my list of applications grew, the variants of subdomains linearly increased as well. I try my best to conveniently name the subdomain to what makes sense, but still sometimes I just can’t recall it.
And then, the 💡 idea showed up: what if there is an application to dynamically show all available apps? No configurations, just query the information directly.
TrueNAS internally has something like it, but it’s the administration page, which consequentially comes with authentication wall. I want something quick and dirty.
So I created wilsonehusin/ingress-directory. The look may be somewhat of an eyesore right now, but hey, incremental progress.
You can check out the source code yourself. The technical overview is quite minimalistic:
This has been quite a joyful exercise over ~2 weekends. With the program now deployed on my home server, I can imagine future me to want more from this project and I will save that for future me.