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Phase 2 of documentation restructuring. Creates docs/reference/ with:

Services (16):
- alloy, argocd, borgmatic, 1password, forgejo, grafana
- jellyfin, kiwix, loki, miniflux, navidrome, postgresql
- prometheus, teslamate, transmission, zot

Infrastructure (3):
- hosts - Device inventory
- tailscale - ACLs, groups, tags
- routing - DNS domains and port mappings

Kubernetes (2):
- cluster - Minikube specs
- apps - ArgoCD application registry

Storage (2):
- sifaka - Synology NAS configuration
- backups - Backup policy

All cards use wiki-links for cross-referencing and include YAML
frontmatter with title and tags for Quartz.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-03 13:22:19 -08:00

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Kiwix
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knowledge

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 ghcr.io/kiwix/kiwix-serve:3.8.1
Storage NFS from storage/sifaka (/volume1/torrents)

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/configmap-zim-torrents.yaml

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

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