The article discusses 5 self-hosted services (NetBox, Harvester, Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes) that the author finds useful in their home lab despite being potentially overkill for typical setups. It details the benefits and use cases for each service, highlighting how they enhance the author's tinkering and learning experience.
This blog post compares Ansible and Terraform, two popular tools in the DevOps world, and discusses how they can be used together for a more efficient and comprehensive approach to infrastructure management. It also includes a video walk-through and requirements for a demo example where Terraform and Ansible are combined to create an AWS EC2 instance and deploy a Docker engine on it with Ansible, followed by launching a Jenkins container.
