https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/categories/infrastructure/Recent content in Infrastructure on ShadowfishHugo -- gohugo.ioen-us© 2026 Creeping depths of the deepSat, 01 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/the-great-database-wipeout/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/the-great-database-wipeout/<p>There is a specific kind of cold sweat known only to software engineers and database administrators.</p> <p>It happens in a microsecond. You press <strong>Enter</strong> in your terminal, expect a clean 3-millisecond query response, and instead watch the terminal freeze. You glance up at your tab title and realize with horror:</p> <p>You weren&rsquo;t connected to <code>staging</code>. You were connected to <code>production</code>.</p>https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/night-tower-homelab-architecture/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:30:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/night-tower-homelab-architecture/<p>Most normal human beings buy a single-bay Synology NAS, plug it into their router, copy their family photos over, and call it a day.</p> <p>Then there are homelab enthusiasts.</p> <p>We look at a simple home network and think: <em>&ldquo;You know what this single-bedroom apartment really needs? A three-node high-availability baremetal Proxmox hypervisor cluster, enterprise-grade OPNsense firewalling, automated GitOps CI/CD pipelines, local AI LLM orchestration, and 1Password-vaulted Ansible playbooks.&rdquo;</em></p> <p>Welcome to <strong>Night-Tower</strong>—the homelab where enterprise-grade architecture meets absurd levels of over-engineering.</p>https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/homelab-ansible-vlan-segmentation/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0200https://shadowfish.night-tower.net/post/homelab-ansible-vlan-segmentation/How I restructured my 3-node Proxmox VE cluster and containerized workloads using declarative Ansible playbooks and a Zero-Trust VLAN firewall strategy.