Automation

In this post I’ll walk through how I fully automated the provisioning of an IBM MQ server on my Proxmox homelab using Terraform and Ansible. With a single terraform apply, the entire stack builds itself — VM creation, OS configuration, IBM MQ installation, queue manager setup, and systemd service registration. Architecture Overview homelab02 (Terraform + Ansible host) │ │ terraform apply ▼ Proxmox API (192.168.1.14:8006) │ ├── ① Clone Ubuntu 24.04 template ├── ② Apply cloud-init (kernel params, qemu-agent) ├── ③ Wait for VM ready └── ④ Run Ansible → IBM MQ install + QM1 config Tools used: ...

Introduction In this post, I’ll walk you through my journey of integrating Google’s Gemini CLI (v0.24.0) with my self-hosted n8n instance (v2.2.6) using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). While n8n provides built-in MCP support, it only exposes read-only actions. To unlock full workflow automation—creating, modifying, and deleting workflows via Gemini CLI—I built a custom Python MCP server that leverages n8n’s API. Project Overview Goal: Enable Gemini CLI to create, read, update, and delete n8n workflows programmatically. ...