Tagged 'terraform'

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.

Roles All the Way Down

platform-engineering ansible terraform proxmox kubernetes homelab-platform

The roles declared in Terraform were designed to feed Ansible. Ansible was built to stand up k3s. This is how a three-node cluster assembles itself from a single playbook run.

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.