Terraform + GitHub Actions Homelab Career Kit
For mid-career sysadmins rebuilding cloud-relevant skills — a complete, working IaC project you can run today and talk about in interviews tomorrow.
Build a portfolio-grade IaC project with working Terraform modules and GitHub Actions CI pipelines — plus the interview story to go with it.
- ▸Terraform VM module — Proxmox VM provisioning with cloud-init, SSH key injection, VLAN support
- ▸Terraform network module — Linux bridge with VLAN-aware configuration
- ▸Homelab root environment — Wires both modules together; annotated tfvars example included
- ▸4 GitHub Actions workflows — Validate, Plan (with PR comments), Security scan (tfsec + SARIF), and environment-gated Apply
- ▸Setup guide — Step-by-step: Proxmox API token, cloud-init template, first apply
- ▸Module reference — Full variable/output docs with common error resolution
- ▸CI pipeline explainer — Each workflow broken down with design rationale and interview talking points
- ▸Cloud extension guide — How to swap the Proxmox provider for AWS or Azure; remote backend migration path
- ▸Pre-written STAR narratives — Detailed and brief versions, ready to tailor
- ▸Resume bullets — 6 ready-to-paste lines with impact framing for multiple role types
- ▸Interview talking points — Per-component technical depth with what-each-signal-means context
- ▸Questions to ask the interviewer — 10 questions that signal IaC maturity from the candidate side
## goes-well-with
From the same shelf
Homelab Beginner Starter Kit
Your first homelab in a weekend — no rabbit holes required.
Homelab DR Kit v2 — Advanced Edition
Expand beyond the published v1 with automated backup validation scripts, tested restoration runbooks, and a DR drill scoring rubric for homelabs running Proxmox, TrueNAS, and containerized services.
Build 5 Real Infrastructure Projects from Zero
Escape tutorial hell for sysadmins — five hands-on homelab projects (monitoring, automation, DR, networking, security) with guided specs, code stubs, and a 30-day progress tracker.
## not-ready-to-buy
Take the field notes instead
One practical write-up a week from the same workbench these kits come from — plus reader pricing when new kits ship.