Tools

Daily drivers and rabbit holes, nothing here is for show.

Network

  • Wireshark and tcpdump — for anything that is not obvious from a log
  • Tailscale — for the parts of the network that should not be on the public internet
  • NetBox — for IPAM/DCIM, the source of truth before the source of truth drifts

Cloud

  • AWS — EC2, VPC and Route 53 most weeks; S3 for anything that just needs to sit somewhere durable

DevOps / Infrastructure

  • Docker — for anything that should not touch the host directly
  • Ansible — for the configuration drift that manual SSH sessions eventually cause
  • Terraform — for the AWS side of the same problem
  • Proxmox VE — the hypervisor behind the homelab
  • GitHub Actions / GitLab CI — for the pipelines that are not this site’s

Servers