Proxmox

The Problem My two boys each had their own gaming PC. Two towers, two sets of peripherals, two machines to maintain, update, and troubleshoot. When I started consolidating everything into a Proxmox homelab, it seemed wasteful to keep two standalone gaming rigs around. The plan: one host, two GPUs, two Windows VMs. Each boy gets a dedicated GPU, their own monitor, keyboard, and mouse. They can game simultaneously without knowing they’re on virtual machines. ...

One of those satisfying days where a pile of “almost working” became a fully operational CI/CD pipeline. The goal: get GitHub Actions runners to test Ansible playbooks against real infrastructure over Tailscale VPN. The Problem I had Ansible playbooks managing Proxmox hosts, but no automated testing. Every change was a manual ansible-playbook --check from my laptop. I wanted PRs to automatically lint and dry-run against the real cluster before merge. ...