Introduction

A while back I flung myself head-first into the deep, dark rabbit hole that was learning Ansible. The more I learned about it, the more I began using it for everything; even if it wasn’t the best tool for the job, like provisioning VMs in Proxmox.

I started writing a playbook for …

Introduction

If you look into homelabbing or self-hosting online, you’re sure to come across Home Assistant. It’s an open source service, which you can self-host in a variety of different ways, that brings all of your IoT devices under one roof.

If you have multiple smart devices from …

Introduction

I’ve recently been attempting to implement single-sign-on (SSO) in my homelab using Authentik. I’ve wrote a litte about that adventure so far. You can read that article here.

Well, recently, I attempted integrating Authentik with Jellyfin, my self-hosted media server of …

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 …

I’ve recently been playing with Ansible in my homelab. I love that it’s agent-less, simple and idempotent. You don’t need to install any software on your targets to get started; you just need to be able to SSH into them. If you can SSH into it, you can deploy configs with Ansible. It’s really that …