We take a look at running your home lab with infrastructure as code. No more manual steps and other tedious operations. Do everything in code like a boss! We look at Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and GitLab CI/CD. Dive in with me and take your home lab to the next level.
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Introduction – 0:00
Why use IaC in the home lab? 0:32
Terraform – 2:11
Packer – 7:41
Windows Server template in Proxmox with packer – 8:45
Ansible – 11:28
Gitlab CI/CD – 13:46
Looking at my pipeline file – 14:16
