Automate Your Home Lab with Terraform, Packer, Ansible & GitLab CI/CD (2025 Tutorial)

We take a look at running your home lab with infrastructure as code. No more manual steps and other tedious operations. Do everything in code like a boss! We look at Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and GitLab CI/CD. Dive in with me and take your home lab to the next level. Take a look at the written article here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/07/run-your-home-lab-with-infrastructure-as-code-like-a-boss/ Get the Minisforum MS-A2 mini PC great for home lab! https://geni.us/minisforum-ms-a2 Check out the VHT forums to get your questions answered: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/ HomeLabExplorers here! https://www.skool.com/homelabexplorers/about?ref=25f64c297b724689ae81c7dd30ba2c21 ★ Substack URL: bleevht.substack.com ★ Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 ★ My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com ★ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster ★ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ ★ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit ★ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/VirtualizationHowto/100092747277326/ ★ Discord: https://discord.gg/Zb46NV6mB3 ★ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/brandonleevht/ Introduction - 0:00 Why use IaC in the home lab? 0:32 Terraform - 2:11 Packer - 7:41 Windows Server template in Proxmox with packer - 8:45 Ansible - 11:28 Gitlab CI/CD - 13:46 Looking at my pipeline file - 14:16