Tagged 'platform-engineering'

February 2026

Roles All the Way Down

platform-engineering ansible terraform proxmox kubernetes homelab-platform

The roles declared in Terraform were designed to feed Ansible. Ansible was built to stand up k3s. This is how a three-node cluster assembles itself from a single playbook run.

From Click-Ops to Roles: Terraforming My Proxmox Platform

platform-engineering terraform proxmox infrastructure homelab-platform

I automated forgetting how to create VMs. A shift from manual provisioning to declarative, role-based platform thinking on Proxmox.

Self-Hosted GitLab CI/CD: Building My Own Deployment Platform

devops cicd gitlab troubleshooting platform-engineering automation traefik

How I set up GitLab CE with automated pipelines on my homelab—and what I learned the hard way about SSL termination, reverse proxies, and infrastructure design.