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Ansible – Infrastructure as Code for building up my Homelab

I have been using Ansible to manage my homelab infrastructure. It's a great tool to automate the deployment and configuration of servers and services. Let me share with you how I use Ansible to manage my homelab.

The best part is that all the operations are idempoent, which means that you can run the same playbook multiple times, and it will only make the necessary changes to bring your infrastructure to the desired state. Here we are telling Ansible to run two tasks on all the servers ( hosts: all) as a root user ( become: true) to update the apt cache and upgrade all the packages. To avoid repeating same commands again and again, I have some helpful scripts which runs the deployment, linting and setup of my ansible environment on CI for validating my playbook changes.

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