u/CreoSiempre

Since I would never attack anyone personally, I’m just posting this as a friendly reminder for some of y’all’s cousins out there:

The left lane is for passing.

IN Code § 9-21-5-9:

>“a person who knows, or should reasonably know, that another vehicle is overtaking from the rear... may not continue to operate the vehicle in the left most lane."

Translation: your cousin needs to move over.

You have mirrors. Please use them. If there’s a line of cars behind you and open road in front of you, that might be the good Lord and the Indiana Code both telling you to scoot over.

Not saying I’m a snitch, but if I were a snitch, I’d be on the short list for confidential informant of the month for reporting this alleged (up to) $500 traffic infraction.

Anyway, drive safe, move right, and let the people emotionally committed to getting a speeding ticket continue their journey in peace.

I’ve been spinning up a lot more personal projects lately, partly thanks to our friend AI, and it made me reflect on how I structure the DevOps side of things.

I wanted to start a discussion and see how others are setting up their local dev, CI/CD, deployment, and infrastructure for side projects or small personal apps.

For my own projects, I usually start pretty simple. I tend to use a Makefile for common tasks like building, packaging, running, and deploying. From there, I’ll add more structure only when the project starts to feel real.

Curious how others approach this:

• Do you use Terraform from the beginning, or only after a project gets serious?
• What’s your go-to setup for running multiple apps?
• Do you have a default cloud provider or tech stack?
• Are you running everything on a single VPS/EC2 instance, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, something else?
• Are you using a personal cluster or homelab?
• How much CI/CD do you set up for side projects?
• What do you do to keep costs down?

Basically, what does your personal project DevOps setup look like, and what have you found to be worth the effort vs. overkill?