Tagged 'infrastructure'

Architectural cross-section of three role-stamped machine units on a hypervisor plinth — docker, gitlab, k3s control — provisioned from a linked-clone template bay, one figure at a drafting table

February 2026

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.

Cost as a Design Constraint: FinOps on a £0 Budget

platform-engineering self-hosting infrastructure observability

How a £0 infrastructure budget forced architectural decisions that map directly to cloud cost governance, and what FinOps looks like when you can't just throw money at the problem.

The Same Pattern, Two Platforms: From Proxmox to Azure AVM

platform-engineering terraform ansible azure infrastructure self-hosted-platform

The Terraform-to-Ansible contract I designed on my homelab is the same contract I deploy at work with Azure Verified Modules. The pattern transfers; only the providers change.