Introduction I recently ran into a frustration while working on some Ansible roles. I was attempting to use an Ansible handler to reset the SSH connection after making a change to a user. My role was attempting to install Docker, add the Ansible User to the Docker Group, and deploy a container. …

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve been on a learning journey to pick up Ansible for automating my homelab. The goal was to have one master playbook, ‘one playbook to rule them all,’ which would not only handle configuring servers and managing my services running in Docker but …

Earlier this week I tried using Ansible to declaratively define the VMs in my homelab’s Proxmox cluster. My method of attack was to basically ‘lift and shift’ my manual methods into an automation platform. What do I mean by this? Well, my manual method was to right-click and clone a cloud-init …