Introduction

I’ve spent the last several weeks playing around with Kubernetes in my homelab. I haven’t actually migrated any services that I’m running to Kubernetes yet though. Not even close. I’ve spent this time in a true lab environment. I’ve been trying things out. …

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 am an avid user of Tailscale, a mesh VPN based on Wireguard that makes secure, remote access to your homelab services incredibly easy. One of my favorite features is MagicDNS which essentially allows you to connect directly to any of your devices over Tailscale via the hostname rather …

TechnoTim has a great video on how to deploy ubuntu VMs on proxmox using cloud init. I’ve used this exact guide to deploy my machines for years now, and even automated it with Ansible. Now, I’m attempting to expand my Ansible roles to support other potential operating systems that I may …

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 …