thesabear
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The public repo hadn't been touched since its initial import: 14 of its Docker entries (Airsonic, Diun, Duplicati, Gitlab, Gotify, Grocy, Jenkins, Jitsi, MariaDB, Minio, Organizr, Semaphore, Uptime Kuma, Whoogle) no longer exist anywhere in the fleet. Also strips the internal Caddy CA trust mount from the nocodb entry added earlier today - that's an internal PKI detail, not something to showcase publicly.
👋 Hi there — I’m @thesabear
I’m a curious, self-taught technologist with a passion for breaking things, fixing them, and understanding why systems behave the way they do. What started as a hobby homelab project has grown into a full-on journey into DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and security.
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.
👀 What I’m Exploring
I spend a lot of time experimenting in my homelab, using it as a real-world playground to deepen my understanding of core IT concepts.
Some of the areas I’m actively exploring include:
- Infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Network design, security, and service reliability
- Containers, registries, and image hardening
- Monitoring, observability, and resilient design patterns
Each project teaches me something new, and everything I learn pushes me further toward becoming a well-rounded IT/DevOps engineer.
🌱 What I’m Learning Right Now
I’m currently focused on:
- Building and maintaining secure Docker images
- Running my own private registry
- Using GitLab pipelines to automate image updates, security scanning, and deployments
- Improving scripting skills—Python and Bash are next on my list
I enjoy understanding not just how something works, but how to automate it, secure it, and integrate it cleanly into a larger system.
⚡ Fun Fact
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.
📁 What You’ll Find in This Repository
This repo serves as a showcase of the things I build and experiment with. Inside, you’ll find:
- A growing collection of Docker Compose files for various services I run
- Infrastructure-as-Code projects designed to spin up my entire homelab from minimal, hardened ISO images
- Configurations, scripts, and templates built around reproducibility, security, and operational simplicity
My goal is to create solutions that are not only functional, but thoughtfully designed—and to share what I learn along the way.
🚀 Let’s Connect
