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+layout: post
+title:  "It's alive!"
+date:   2024-04-21 10:02:00 Europe/Amsterdam
+categories: jekyll blog
+---
+
+Finally, after several months this website is up and running again!
+
+My homelab has completely changed, but the reason why it initially went offline is because of my failing CI installation.
+I was using [Concourse CI](https://concourse-ci.org/) which I was initially interested in due to the reproducible nature of its builds using containers.
+However, for some reason pipelines were sporadically getting stuck when I reboot the virtual machine it was running on.
+The fix was very annoying: I had to re-create the pipelines manually (which feels very backwards for a CI/CD system!)
+Additionally, my virtual machine setup back then was also quite fragile and I decided to get rid of that as well.
+
+I have learned that having an escape hatch to deploy something is probably a good idea 😅
+Expect a new overview of my homelab soon, in the same vein as [this post from last year]({% post_url infrastructure-snapshot/2023-08-13-infrastructure-snapshot %})!