https://heezy.blog/tags/automation/Recent content in Automation on heezy.blogHugoen-usMon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/about-this-site/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/about-this-site/<p>This site is built with <a href="https://gohugo.io">Hugo</a> using the <a href="https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal">Terminal</a> theme. The Hugo static site is compiled inside a Docker multi-stage build, bundled into a <a href="https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag">SWAG</a> container image, pushed to Amazon ECR, and deployed to a MicroK8s cluster via GitHub Actions. Source content lives in a Git repo and a push to main triggers the full build-and-deploy pipeline automatically.</p>https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#what-even-is-a-heezy">What Even Is a Heezy</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#the-network">The Network</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#the-kubernetes-cluster">The Kubernetes Cluster</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#what-runs-on-the-cluster">What Runs on the Cluster</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#the-dmz">The DMZ</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#monitoring">Monitoring</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#dns">DNS</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#infrastructure-as-code">Infrastructure as Code</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#the-aws-bootstrap-cdk-first-everything-else-after">The AWS Bootstrap: CDK First, Everything Else After</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#secrets">Secrets</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#what-id-do-differently">What I&rsquo;d Do Differently</a></li> <li><a href="https://heezy.blog/posts/the-heezy-architecture/#the-name">The Name</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="what-even-is-a-heezy">What Even Is a Heezy</h2> <p>If you grew up in the early 2000s, you probably remember when Snoop Dogg had everyone adding &ldquo;-izzle&rdquo; to everything. &ldquo;For sheezy&rdquo; was peak vocabulary for a 12-year-old who spent too much time on Counter-Strike and not enough time on homework. &ldquo;Heezy&rdquo; rhymes with &ldquo;easy,&rdquo; which is what I told myself this project would be. It was not easy. But the name stuck, and now my entire infrastructure is named after slang that peaked in 2003. No regrets.</p>https://heezy.blog/posts/kubernetes-cluster-build-and-operations/Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/kubernetes-cluster-build-and-operations/<p>This is the full story of building a MicroK8s cluster from scratch, migrating a Docker Compose stack onto it, and all the things that broke along the way. If you&rsquo;re thinking about running Kubernetes at home for self-hosted services, this is what it actually looks like.</p>https://heezy.blog/posts/terraform-ansible-automation/Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/terraform-ansible-automation/<p>This is the story of taking a homelab that was 100% manually configured and turning it into something where every change is a git commit, every deployment is a GitHub Actions run, and I never SSH into a box to make a &ldquo;quick fix&rdquo; again. It took a lot of hours, a lot of broken credential chains, and one memorable incident where I leaked secrets because of echo output. But it works now, and it works well.</p>https://heezy.blog/posts/lab-modernization-journal/Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/lab-modernization-journal/<p>This is the journal of taking a homelab that was held together with SSH sessions and good intentions and turning it into something that manages itself. It took months of evenings and weekends, a lot of broken things, and more hours than I want to admit. But the lab went from &ldquo;I hope nobody touches that server&rdquo; to &ldquo;push to main and walk away.&rdquo;</p>