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## About me
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# 👋 Hi there — I'm @thesabear
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I'm a curious, self-taught technologist who runs a real, multi-host homelab as a production-grade playground: a Proxmox hypervisor cluster hosting a fleet of VMs/LXCs, a two-zone Caddy reverse-proxy design fronted by Authentik SSO, self-hosted Gitea with Ansible-driven scheduled maintenance, and Terraform+Packer provisioning for bootstrapping new hosts from hardened, minimal images. What started as a hobby project has grown into a full-on journey into DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and security.
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My long-term goal is to build a career in IT — specifically in environments where learning never stops and innovation is part of the culture.
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## 👀 What I'm Exploring
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I use my homelab as a real-world playground to deepen my understanding of core IT concepts. Some of the areas I'm actively exploring include:
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- Infrastructure-as-Code: provisioning and hardening hosts from scratch with Terraform + Packer + Ansible
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- Reverse-proxy architecture and identity: a dual-zone Caddy setup (internal service-to-service vs. user-facing) fronted by Authentik forward-auth
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- Workflow automation: Ansible for scheduled fleet maintenance, Kestra and n8n for everything else
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- Monitoring, observability, and resilient service design
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Each project teaches me something new, and everything I learn pushes me further toward becoming a well-rounded IT/DevOps engineer.
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## 🌱 What I'm Learning Right Now
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I'm currently focused on:
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- Refining the Ansible roles and playbooks that keep the fleet patched and consistent
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- Tightening the Caddy/Authentik reverse-proxy and SSO design as new services get added
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- Running my own self-hosted Gitea instead of relying on external platforms
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- Improving scripting skills — Python and Bash are next on my list
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I enjoy understanding not just how something works, but how to automate it, secure it, and integrate it cleanly into a larger system.
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## ⚡ Fun Fact
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I'm entirely self-taught. Every tool, trick, concept, and workflow in my repos is something I learned by doing — from reading docs to breaking my lab at 2 a.m. and fixing it again.
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# thesabear's Homelab
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Most homelabs are a media server with some extra apps bolted on. This one is a platform: the same categories of systems a company's platform/security team owns — secrets management, zero-trust network segmentation, self-hosted CI/CD, human-gated fleet orchestration, a self-built SOC — run at homelab scale, for real, 24/7, by one person.
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## About me
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# 👋 Hi there — I'm @thesabear
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I'm a curious, self-taught technologist who runs a real, multi-host homelab as a production-grade playground: a Proxmox hypervisor cluster hosting a fleet of VMs/LXCs, a two-zone Caddy reverse-proxy design fronted by Authentik SSO, self-hosted Gitea with Ansible-driven scheduled maintenance, and Terraform+Packer provisioning for bootstrapping new hosts from hardened, minimal images. What started as a hobby project has grown into a full-on journey into DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and security.
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My long-term goal is to build a career in IT — specifically in environments where learning never stops and innovation is part of the culture.
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## 👀 What I'm Exploring
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I use my homelab as a real-world playground to deepen my understanding of core IT concepts. Some of the areas I'm actively exploring include:
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- Infrastructure-as-Code: provisioning and hardening hosts from scratch with Terraform + Packer + Ansible
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- Reverse-proxy architecture and identity: a dual-zone Caddy setup (internal service-to-service vs. user-facing) fronted by Authentik forward-auth
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- Workflow automation: Ansible for scheduled fleet maintenance, Kestra and n8n for everything else
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- Monitoring, observability, and resilient service design
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Each project teaches me something new, and everything I learn pushes me further toward becoming a well-rounded IT/DevOps engineer.
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## 🌱 What I'm Learning Right Now
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I'm currently focused on:
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- Refining the Ansible roles and playbooks that keep the fleet patched and consistent
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- Tightening the Caddy/Authentik reverse-proxy and SSO design as new services get added
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- Running my own self-hosted Gitea instead of relying on external platforms
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- Improving scripting skills — Python and Bash are next on my list
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I enjoy understanding not just how something works, but how to automate it, secure it, and integrate it cleanly into a larger system.
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## ⚡ Fun Fact
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I'm entirely self-taught. Every tool, trick, concept, and workflow in my repos is something I learned by doing — from reading docs to breaking my lab at 2 a.m. and fixing it again.
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[](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-surgey)
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