DevOps Homelab 🚀

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📌 Overview

This project is a DevOps homelab that demonstrates a full end-to-end cloud and CI/CD workflow.

It simulates how a real-world application moves from local development to a fully automated cloud infrastructure using modern DevOps practices.

The goal is to build practical experience with application development, containerization, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud deployment.

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🔁 End-to-End Workflow

Local Development (Flask) → Docker Containerization → GitHub Repository → GitHub Actions (CI/CD - in progress) → Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) → Microsoft Azure (Cloud Resources)

This represents a real-world DevOps pipeline where application delivery and infrastructure provisioning are automated and version-controlled.

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🎯 Goals

• Learn and apply DevOps principles in a real project
• Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Containerize a Python Flask application using Docker
• Use Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
• Deploy resources on Microsoft Azure
• Build a portfolio-ready cloud engineering project

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🧰 Tech Stack

• Python (Flask)
• Docker
• Git & GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform
• Microsoft Azure

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☁️ Infrastructure (Terraform + Azure)

Infrastructure is managed using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision Microsoft Azure resources in a repeatable and version-controlled way.

• Azure Resource Group created via Terraform

Deployment

The application is deployed as a temporary cloud environment using Azure Container Apps via Terraform.

The infrastructure is fully reproducible and can be destroyed using Terraform.

🚀 Future Improvements

• Azure App Service or Container Apps deployment
• Virtual Network (VNet) and subnet architecture
• Azure Key Vault for secrets management
• Full CI/CD deployment pipeline to Azure

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🚀 How to run locally

Build the Docker image

docker build -t devops-homelab .

Run container

docker run -p 5000:5000 devops-homelab

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📸 Screenshots

All screenshots are stored in: docs/screenshots/

Includes:

• Terraform plan output
• Terraform apply output
• Azure resource creation
• CI/CD pipeline runs

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📈 Project Status

Status: 🚧 In progress

Current focus:

• Terraform infrastructure setup
• Azure deployment
• CI/CD pipeline improvements

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🧠 What I learned

• Docker containerization
• GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
• Terraform Infrastructure as Code
• Microsoft Azure cloud basics
• End-to-end DevOps workflow

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👤 Author

Sven Velleman
Aspiring Cloud & DevOps Engineer