Infrastructure-as-Code

• Migrating Active Directory to Samba, One Domain Controller at a Time

  Replacing two Windows Server 2019 domain controllers with Samba AD via an in-place replica join — preserving every SID so no workstation ever notices, executed across one night and the following day, split by an AI usage-limit reset.

• Preparing the Windows Fleet for Samba

  Before the domain controllers could move to Samba, the rest of the Windows fleet had to come under Ansible management and trust a new root CA — the evening of prep work the migration blitz depended on.

• The Mastodon Migration

  Part 6 of the downsizing series: moving Mastodon off a lone Ubuntu VM onto official Docker images in an LXC, with media offloaded to S3 first — the win that landed the same day FreeIPA got shelved.

• Infrastructure to Build Infrastructure

  Part 4 of the downsizing series: the first commit, the first apply, and pushing the code to the server the code itself built.

• Why I’m Replacing a Homelab That Still Works

  The 2026 rebuild starts with a confession: the old setup works fine. I'm replacing it anyway — for power, noise, Windows licenses, and aging hardware.