At AnsibleFest 2022, I presented Ansible for the Homelab .
In the presentation, I gave a tour of my homelab, highlighting it's growth from a modem and 5-port switch to a full 24U rack with a petabyte of storage and multiple 10 gigabit switches!
Then I spent some time discussing how various components are automated using Ansible, mostly using open source projects on GitHub.
Unfortunately for attendees, the room my session was in was packed, and a lot of people who wanted to see it were turned away.
Luckily I also pre-recorded the presentation and posted it on my YouTube channel. So now everyone can watch it!
I mentioned a number of Ansible playbooks and open source projects in the presentation; here's a list of all of them:
- You can get a free copy of my book Ansible for DevOps âfeel free to pass along the link to others!
- My Dad and I upgraded my 20U rack to a new, much deeper 24U rack on the Geerling Engineering YouTube channelâand we had a little too much fun!
- Last year I built the PetaPi - a single Raspberry Pi addressing a petabyte of storage .
- See how I use a Raspberry Pi to monitor my home Internet .
- For fast, low-latency video editing, I built an All-SSD Edit NAS running TrueNAS .
- I recently started Monitoring my ASUS WiFi router with Prometheus and Grafana .
- See My Backup Plan , which includes the scripts I run on one of the Raspberry Pis in my rack to back things up to Amazon Glacier.
- Drupal Pi is what I'm currently using to serve the Drupal website pidramble.com directly from my home.
- I'm currently testing a number of open source NVR (Network Video Recorder) applications on the Raspberry Pi, and documenting my work in my pi-nvr project .
- One of the Raspberry Pis in my rack runs Pi-VPN , giving me access to my homelab from anywhere.
- I even manage my two Macs, using the popular Mac Development Ansible Playbook .
- I'm experimenting setting up a Raspberry Pi-based Router to either supplement my existing Internet connection or replace my current ASUS router.
I put a listing of all the Homelab equipment I'm currently using (as of October 2022) in the description of the YouTube video .
If you have any other questions about my homelab, or how I automate different parts of it, please feel free to ask in the comments! I may do a more formal 'homelab tour' later this year or early next year, so make sure you're subscribed to my YouTube channel to see it!