Ansible

When people ask me what made me decide to automate my homelab cluster, they expect a story about frustration — some late night where everything broke and I snapped. That’s not what happened. The first time I built a bare metal Kubernetes cluster manually, it took me a week and countless hours. Manual steps, configuration files, troubleshooting, and learning. And when it was done, I looked at it and thought: the next evolution of this is automation. Not because I was tired of doing it manually — but because I wanted to be able to reproduce it at a moment’s notice. ...