Puppet is extremely useful, but has a number of annoying deficiencies – among them, the way it handles node configuration. External Node Classifiers Are A Thing, but you have to use something like Foreman to store and supply …

Every once in a while I like to do a round of maintenance on my homelab. This generally includes cleaning everything up, modernizing where I can, and so on. The beginning of 2024 seemed like an excellent time, but also a bit more …

My Terraforming efforts continue in my homelab, but Terraform alone isn’t enough. Some of my services require ongoing management, and I want to capture that configuration as code to make it reproducible when needed. Puppet is …