Stop Babysitting Your Homelab — Build One That Manages Itself

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Most homelabs grow into chaos — services pile up, nothing's documented, one bad drive and it's gone. This video is the foundation of a full series where we build a homelab that's recoverable, consistent, and secure by design. We cover the four-layer architecture that powers the entire stack: bare-metal infrastructure managed with Ansible & Terraform, Kubernetes running on K3s, GitOps via ArgoCD, and a UI layer gated by Authelia's single sign-on. You'll see why each layer exists, how they communicate, and what makes the whole system composable and maintainable long-term. This is Episode 1 — the map before the build. Next up: Ansible, provisioning bare metal from scratch.