#infrastructure
- Infrastructure as code with Ansible: configuring the homelab from one place
Using Ansible to configure the homelab nodes from the admin laptop: an inventory, an encrypted vault for the sudo password, and idempotent playbooks for time synchronization and Docker, all versioned in git.
- First homelab: a first step toward orchestration
Building a small 10-inch rack homelab with three refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny PCs, a shared power supply, a switch and a patch panel, ready for our first orchestrated cluster.
- First minimal infrastructure: OVH VPS - from order to a hardened server
A step-by-step guide for a first server: order an OVHcloud VPS, log in with SSH keys, and lock it down with a firewall, fail2ban, automatic updates and backups.