This blog is dedicated to Ansible, and I will use this to discuss my set-up and provide some useful tips and information from my experiences using it to set-up and deploy Docker containers and Swarm services.

The Why?

  • Since I started using Ansible, I have grown to love it, but it can be quite daunting for newcomers
  • It is one thing to automate a task and another to do it efficiently and effectively
  • It can be easy to fall into a rabbit hole of troubleshooting and frustration.

So with that said, see the Ansible topics in the menus above.

It will grow over time when I have time.

Disclaimers:

  • I’m not some IT-guru with 50 years industry experience. This is my hobby and I know enough to get the tasks I need done and that’s it.
  • Anything written will be from the point of view of someone relying primarily on Debian-based OSs. You can use Ansible to handle Windows, but I don’t.
  • This blog is written as much for me as it is for anyone else, in a sense, much of it is about me providing a rationale of what I am doing, why I am doing it, with a touch of tips, opinions, rants, and whatever else.
  • My setup and how I use tools like ansible is simply how I choose to approach it. Yours may differ, and that’s okay.