Homelab deployments: a tutorial made of prompts

Every now and then I get a hankering to write about my homelab, but there’s so much to talk about that I end up just writing nothing. This is my attempt to stay on a smaller topic in the hopes it’s less boring and potentially more useful. Additionaly, with the advent of LLMs, I kind of think it’s a waste of time for step-by-step instructions. I hope to equip readers with useful prompts, and if they want to dive into the details, they can on their own. So, in this post I am going to share how I deploy software to the internet (and intranet). This will include small static sites, open-source software, as well as more substantial webapps I develop on my own. For now, I am mostly skipping DNS and service ingress. We’ll assume you have that set up. This post is more about the automation of deploying code changes. Static SitesSmall static sites are definitely the easiest because no backend is necessary for them to function. Because of that, I don’t even bother hosting them myself. I’d…