Ansible Playbooks are a powerful tool for automating infrastructure management, offering a simple, scalable, and reliable way to configure systems and deploy applications. Written in YAML, Playbooks are human-readable and designed to automate repetitive tasks, ensuring consistency across your environment. For homelab enthusiasts and IT professionals, they’re indispensable for maintaining an efficient, secure, and up-to-date infrastructure.
In my homelab, Ansible Playbooks have been transformative, enabling me to manage configurations, networks, and applications with ease. This hub showcases how Playbooks streamline complex tasks while remaining flexible and adaptable to any setup.
Playbooks ensure the same configuration is applied uniformly across all systems, reducing errors caused by manual changes.
From a single server to a large-scale environment, Ansible scales seamlessly, making it ideal for both homelabs and enterprise setups.
Save time by automating tasks like software installation, updates, and system provisioning, allowing you to focus on innovation.
Playbooks can automate a wide range of tasks, including:
My Ansible-Playbook-Dev repository on GitHub contains a collection of Playbooks tailored for homelab environments. These Playbooks are optimized for:
Automates the deployment of a Linux, NGINX, MariaDB, and PHP environment for web hosting:
- name: Setup LEMP stack
hosts: webservers
tasks:
- name: Install required packages
apt:
name:
- nginx
- mariadb-server
- php-fpm
state: present
- name: Start and enable NGINX
service:
name: nginx
state: started
enabled: true
- name: Secure MariaDB
shell: mysql_secure_installation
Configures VLANs in Proxmox and applies corresponding firewall rules in pfSense:
- name: Configure VLANs
hosts: proxmox
tasks:
- name: Create a new VLAN
command: "ip link add link eth0 name eth0.10 type vlan id 10"
- name: Assign IP address to VLAN
command: "ip addr add 192.168.10.1/24 dev eth0.10"
Deploys Pi-hole in a Docker container with volume and network configuration:
- name: Deploy Pi-hole
hosts: docker
tasks:
- name: Create Pi-hole container
docker_container:
name: pihole
image: pihole/pihole:latest
ports:
- "80:80"
volumes:
- "/etc/pihole:/etc/pihole"
- "/etc/dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d"
env:
TZ: "America/Los_Angeles"
Install Ansible:
Install Ansible on your control node:
sudo apt install ansible
Clone the Repository:
Get started with my Playbooks by cloning the GitHub repo:
git clone https://github.com/KeepItTechie/ansible-playbook-dev.git
Run a Playbook:
Use the ansible-playbook command to execute a Playbook:
ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml
Automation is a team sport! If you have ideas, improvements, or suggestions, let’s collaborate via GitHub or email. Together, we can build tools that help others automate their environments.
Automation is the future of infrastructure management. With Ansible Playbooks, you can take your homelab to the next level, making it more efficient, reliable, and scalable. Let’s automate together!
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