I recall hearing that there’s a Debian install for Qnap devices. I’ve been considering reimaging an old Qnap with Debian and Minio for backups.

Edit: Found it https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/QNAP

How do you decide what’s for Terraform and what’s for Ansible?

Similar to others, I do this but the reverse direction. I have a Pi with HDD at a friend’s house. On a timer, it wakes up at 3am, boots to a VPN and initiates an rsync (pull) with it’s twin Pi at my place. When the sync is done, it powers down or the timer cuts power at 9am.

Other than clock drift due to power outages, I’ve had no issues.

I have a directory that i can put scripts into and the remote Pi will execute anything in this directory after the sync and before the shutdown. Logs from the rsync or scripts are pushed back to a different directory on the local Pi.

Just imagine if the roles were reversed and some reporter was hanging out in a top secret war chat on Signal with high ranking US government officials!

This reminds me that I need alerts monitoring set up. ; -)