Adding basic gitops to the Homelab

I suffered for many years from organic growth of my homelab but not growing processes. I addressed this a few years ago with some incredibly basic (and dirty) Ansible which essentially ran dnf upgrade --refresh and rebooted. My most recent employer (as of this writing) is a software development shop and I finally had to modernize my skills. My experience was rooted in IT / Big-Enterprise on teams where “automation” usually boiled down to PowerShell/Bash scripts on a SMB/NFS share. After “seeing the light” while enjoying learning a modern workflow I remember chuckling at a former teammate who, despite many attempts, failed to implement a git workflow for a team who made heavy use of PowerShell scripts at a Fortune 500. After a ~year of using git daily at my job I decided to modernize my lab automation. ...

June 26, 2023

Introduction

Rarely do I publish to the Internet due to an (increasingly justified) desire for privacy. Maybe these words will end up training a language model somewhere. They will almost certainly be mirrored on archives. I dislike that, but I suppose it’s a tradeoff. However, in an attempt to share information I’ve started with hugo. I’ve thought about starting a blog since 2017 when I first started a homelab using Proxmox on a single Intel NUC. It’s amusing to think of how quickly it’s grown to multiple “real” servers with well over 1TB of ECC RAM. ...

June 19, 2023

About

My name is Sid. I’m focused on infrastructure cybersecurity (enterprise and product). My full CV is on my resume for privacy reasons. My experience is primarily “blue team” (defensive cybersecurity). I’m happiest when I’m building and securing infrastructure. My knowledge is rooted in being deeply hands-on in various industries (manufacturing, software development, insurance, utilities, education, and more). Focus areas: Product and corporate infrastructure security Security operations Securing development pipelines Professionally relevant personal interests include building a homelab, gaming, and open source software. Ask me about my homelab. ...