I’ve been running this website for about a year now. You’ll notice that in that time, I’ve made fewer than 10 posts… Part of the reason for this, besides my crippling and undiagnosed ADHD, is because of the friction it took to write something. I’m not just talking …

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve been on a learning journey to pick up Ansible for automating my homelab. The goal was to have one master playbook, ‘one playbook to rule them all,’ which would not only handle configuring servers and managing my services running in Docker but …

Earlier this week I tried using Ansible to declaratively define the VMs in my homelab’s Proxmox cluster. My method of attack was to basically ‘lift and shift’ my manual methods into an automation platform. What do I mean by this? Well, my manual method was to right-click and clone a cloud-init …