Introduction

A while back I flung myself head-first into the deep, dark rabbit hole that was learning Ansible. The more I learned about it, the more I began using it for everything; even if it wasn’t the best tool for the job, like provisioning VMs in Proxmox.

I started writing a playbook for …

Introduction

If you look into homelabbing or self-hosting online, you’re sure to come across Home Assistant. It’s an open source service, which you can self-host in a variety of different ways, that brings all of your IoT devices under one roof.

If you have multiple smart devices from …

Introduction

I remember as a young cadet (and even as a young lieutenant) rolling my eyes a bit every time a leader preached the importance of reading. “I’m just not a reader…” I would think to myself. But all that really meant was that I wasn’t willing to put in the …