- I enjoy designing, building and automating systems.
- Over a decade of experience under my belt in support and engineering roles.
- Fond of repurposed tech (Raspberry Pi, Mini-PCs etc).
- Home lab enthusiast interested in Cloud, DevOps, GitOps, IaC, scripting, Proxmox, self-hosting.
- Developing IaC and GitOps skills with Terraform, Ansible and automation pipelines.
- Cloud architecture, network design and service integration.
- Linux systems, management and administration.
- Refining my Azure platform landing zone.
- Continuously building and tweaking my on-prem home lab.
- Custom Azure platform landing zone, inspired by enterprise-scale architecture and CAF guidelines.
- Designed to be light-weight and cost efficient, utilizing free or low-cost SKUs where applicable.
- Deployed in stacks (Management, Governance, Connectivity) with independent state files maintaining workload isolation.
- Bootstrapped via PowerShell script to deploy initial resources into Azure and GitHub repository.
- IaC automation using Terraform and GitHub Actions workflows.
- Dedicated service principal with custom RBAC role, utilizing Federated Credentials (OIDC), enabling secure authentication during workflow execution.
Private Cloud Hypervisor Cluster (Home Lab)
- Multi node hypervisor cluster running Proxmox VE automated with Terraform and Ansible.
- Replication and high-availability configured for production workloads.
- Software-defined networking with VNet and VLANs configured in code.
- OPNsense providing network firewall, VLANs, DNS and routing functionality.
- Personal home lab environment for self-hosting and training.