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Homeserver Ansible Playbook (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After getting fed up with TrueNAS (after it borked itself for the third time and I would have had to set it up AGAIN) I decided to learn Ansible and write a playbook to setup my homeserver that way.

I wanted to share this playbook with you in case someone might find it useful for their own setup and maybe someone has some tips on things I could improve.

This server will not be exposed to the public/internet. If I want to access a service on it from outside my home network I have Wireguard setup on my router to connect to my home network from anywhere.

Keep in mind that I'm relatively new to sysadmin stuff etc so don't be too harsh please 😅

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious how using ansible to deploy docker containers is easier than just using docker compose?

Ansible makes sense to setup the OS the way it needs to be (file systems, folder structure etc), but why make every container through ansible instead of just making a docker compose and maybe having ansible deploy that?

Even easier is probably to just run something like portainer and run the compose file through there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

just making a docker compose and maybe having ansible deploy that?

that's what I do, why ansible? Because it makes it easier to deploy the same service in different servers with slightly different configurations, for example when migrating from one server to another. Also it helps with having something I can easily backup (e.g. git repo) that can redo my server(s) if needed.

That being said I'm still setting everything up with ansible.