Last year, I repurposed an old PC as a home server. Before that, I was already running a few Docker containers on a Synology NAS, but I wanted something more cost-effective—especially when it came to storage capacity.

One of my goals was to define the entire setup as code. I wanted to avoid clicking around in the UI and waiting for pages to load every time I needed to change a setting. So I installed Proxmox (manually), set up API credentials, and jumped on the Terraform bandwagon. With it, I defined all my containers, firewall rules, and the public and private domain names needed to access my services.