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Root Access: IaC Homelab from Scratch

Quick Overview

What: The prologue and campaign map for your Homelab IaC journey. Why: Sets the stage, defines acronyms, and guides you through levels. Time: Self-paced; skim in 5–10 minutes. XP: +20 (like Whose Line, the points are made up but the fun is real).

DAT — Define Acronyms & Terms. See the Glossary for full definitions. Acronyms like IaC, CI/CD, PBS, and others will show hover definitions automatically.

Welcome to the Ops Manual — your field guide for hacking together a homelab from the ground up. Start from your laptop, progress through levels, and evolve into a fully automated on‑prem fortress. Each step is a quest to build, configure, and conquer your infrastructure with IaC.

🖥️ What We Mean by "Workstation"

In this quest, your workstation is the rig you’ll wield to initiate your homelab exploits. It could be a desktop, laptop, or PC — whatever hardware you have in your digital arsenal. No need for a supercomputer; we start with what you’ve got and level up from there.

🚀 Campaign Map

  1. 🖥️ Hardware
  2. 💻 Workstation Setup
  3. ☁️ Cloud Accounts & Foundations
  4. 🌐 Network Setup
  5. 🗄️ NAS Setup
  6. 🖧 Proxmox Cluster Setup

Chapters 07+ are coming soon and will unlock as the campaign progresses.

❓ Do You Want To Know More?

  • 📖 Glossary — DAT: your hacker’s codex for all acronyms, jargon, slang, and domain terms.
  • 📚 Runbooks — step-by-step exploits and procedures.
  • 🔀 Migration — strategies for shifting workloads to new hardware nodes.
  • 🧭 Control Plane — cloud-hosted orchestration & services.

🔧 Project Details

This manual is powered by MkDocs Material and GitHub Pages — think of it as the console where we write our ops logs.

Contributions are welcome! See the GitHub repo: MichaelHeaton/homelab-infra.

🎮 This isn’t just documentation—it’s your quest log. Each page is a mission. Ready? Let’s begin.

🎉 Campaign Prologue Complete! You’re ready to begin your first quest. XP earned: 20 (like Whose Line, the points are made up but the fun is real).

Quick Overview

What: Shared abbreviations and hover tooltips for the campaign. Why: Ensures acronyms and jargon stay consistent across all docs. Time: Ongoing; update whenever a new term is introduced. XP: +5 per new acronym (like Whose Line, the points are made up but the fun is real).

Think of this file as your universal translator—every acronym here powers hover definitions site-wide.

🎉 Abbreviations updated! You’ve earned +5 XP for each new term (points don’t matter, but consistency does).