https://www.apt-upgrade.me/tag/windows/One nerd's homelab: Linux, Kubernetes, security, and the occasional disaster.en-USWed, 23 Sep 2026 21:06:04 +0200https://www.apt-upgrade.me/2026/09/23/enough-yaml-for-now-three-servers-windows-server-2025-and-a-crash-course-on-the-dark-side/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:06:04 +0200https://www.apt-upgrade.me/2026/09/23/enough-yaml-for-now-three-servers-windows-server-2025-and-a-crash-course-on-the-dark-side/<p>Confession time. After the <a href="https://www.apt-upgrade.me/2026/09/21/bare-metal-to-k3s-a-nextcloud-migration-battle-log/">Nextcloud migration battle log</a>, a double-digit number of playbook runs, one nftables ruleset that cheerfully flushed K3s&rsquo; own tables, and more YAML than any human should read in a single week, I had officially had it up to <em>here</em> with <a href="https://nextcloud.com/">Nextcloud</a>, Ansible and anything containing the word &ldquo;migration&rdquo;.</p> <p>So I did what any reasonable Linux nerd does when burned out on Linux: I went over to the other side. Three servers, three fresh installs of <strong>Windows Server 2025</strong>, and a few evenings of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Storage Spaces and BitLocker. No YAML. Just a lot of <code>Get-</code> and <code>Set-</code>.</p>