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Bump kiwix-serve from 3.8.1 to 3.8.2
Minor upstream release with doc and CI fixes. Also corrects kiwix.md
to reference the actual custom registry image and torrents.txt path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-05 08:12:32 -08:00

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Kiwix

Offline Wikipedia and ZIM archive server.

Quick Reference

Property Value
URL https://kiwix.ops.eblu.me
Tailscale URL https://kiwix.tail8d86e.ts.net
Namespace kiwix
Image registry.ops.eblu.me/blumeops/kiwix-serve:v3.8.2
Storage NFS from [[sifaka

Architecture

Component Purpose
kiwix-serve Serves ZIM files on port 80
torrent-sync Sidecar syncing ZIM torrents to transmission
zim-watcher CronJob (hourly) to restart on new ZIMs

Configured Archives

  • Wikipedia top 1M English articles with images
  • Project Gutenberg (60,000+ books)
  • iFixit repair guides
  • Stack Exchange (SuperUser, Math, etc.)
  • LibreTexts textbooks
  • DevDocs developer documentation

Full list: argocd/manifests/kiwix/torrents.txt

Adding Archives

  1. Edit configmap-zim-torrents.yaml
  2. Add torrent URL from https://download.kiwix.org/zim/
  3. Sync: argocd app sync kiwix
  4. Torrent-sync adds to transmission
  5. zim-watcher restarts kiwix when download completes