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Terraform, Ansible, GitOps and the practice of managing infrastructure through versioned, testable code.

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Terraform State Files Explained: Locking, Drift, and What's Actually in Them - Build Archive
Infrastructure as Code

Terraform State Files Explained: Locking, Drift, and What’s Actually in Them

9 de September de 202624 de September de 2026 Cristóbal

The .tfstate file is the part of Terraform that gets glossed over in most getting-started guides, right up until it’s the reason a deploy breaks

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Ansible Idempotency in Practice: What -vvv Actually Shows You - Build Archive
Infrastructure as Code

Ansible Idempotency in Practice: What -vvv Actually Shows You

5 de September de 202624 de September de 2026 Cristóbal

I’ve written before about Ansible as part of a broader IaC toolchain without ever digging into this specific property on its own — worth fixing

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Provisioning Proxmox Containers with Terraform: Two Real Breaks Before It Worked - Build Archive
Infrastructure as Code

Provisioning Proxmox Containers with Terraform: Two Real Breaks Before It Worked

12 de August de 20265 de September de 2026 Cristóbal

I don’t run Terraform against my Proxmox box day to day — my containers get created directly with pct, and that’s honestly the right tool

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Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code in Practice: Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps for Delivery Pipelines

9 de April de 202614 de July de 2026 Cristóbal

Introduction When I first started managing my Proxmox homelab alongside production Node.js services, I quickly realized that clicking through dashboards to provision VMs was a

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Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, Ansible, and Crossplane: The “Everything as Code” Stack Explained

3 de April de 202614 de July de 2026 Cristóbal

I’ve been running a Proxmox homelab for a couple of years now, and the single biggest quality-of-life improvement came not from buying better hardware, but

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