https://beyondthecert.dev/tags/automation/Recent content in Automation on Beyond The CertHugoenSun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://beyondthecert.dev/posts/from-10-days-to-30-minutes/Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://beyondthecert.dev/posts/from-10-days-to-30-minutes/<p>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&rsquo;s not what happened.</p> <p>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&rsquo;s notice.</p>