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Dave
Juntgen

Engineer. Builder. Hockey player.
Always Day 1.

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homelabdockeransible

Part 25 · Part 25: Eliminating the Last Snowflake

The juntgen.com Astro site was the last unversioned snowflake in the homelab — no git history, no IaC, 8 blog posts behind. We moved it into the homelab monorepo and made it deployable with the same command as everything else.

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homelabansibledocker

Part 23 · Part 23: Replacing Portainer with Ansible

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homelabmonitoringgrafana

Part 24 · Part 24: Building a Grafana Dashboard That Actually Works

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homelabansiblebackup

Part 19 · Phase 3: Backups with Proxmox Backup Server and Google Drive

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homelabansiblentp

Part 20 · Consistent Time Sync Across All Proxmox Hosts with Chrony

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homelabansiblemonitoring

Part 21 · Phase 2: Monitoring and Observability with VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and Loki

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About

Builder at heart.
Engineer by trade.

I've been writing software and running Linux systems for 26 years. Over that time I've learned that the best engineers never stop being beginners — there's always a harder problem, a better abstraction, a smarter approach. That's what "Always Day 1" means to me.

My homelab is where I learn without limits: Proxmox, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, networking, security. When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm on the ice playing hockey or spending time with my family.

This site is where I document the journey — the wins, the failures, and everything in between.

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