Hello - and what this blog is about
First post, so: why this blog exists. I run a small homelab - one Proxmox host running the services I actually use, and a place to practise tools I want to get good at. The infrastructure lives in Git; the reasoning lives here. Writing forces the lesson to stick: if I can’t explain why I chose something, I didn’t understand it well enough to choose it. The stack, in the order I’ll cover it: Proxmox, Docker Compose for the simple stuff, k3s as the platform I’m betting on, Argo CD for GitOps, Terraform for DNS, Tailscale holding it together. Posts lean practical - how I set it up, why, and what broke. Less tutorial, more “here’s the thing nobody told me.” ...