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Redoing home lab and need insights
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Ansible is definitely worth exploring. As usual, there are a million tutorials on YouTube that will walk you through a quick deployment and some basic playbooks, but if you want a more fulsome understanding and deeper overview, I'd look at Techworld with Nana's Ansible course. She's extremely thorough, and she has a bunch of other videos that might give you some ideas on how to clean up your lab, especially since you're starting fresh.
Thanks! How would you say the learning curve for Ansible is? I want to dedicate a week only to that so I got a little bit of time at the moment. My goal is to automate everything as much as possible and make the whole system low maintainance. I don't have the time anymore to fix stuff or maintain the whole thing multiple times a month.
I know, selfhosting always comes with the risk of everything crashing down, but that risk I'm taking and trying to mitigate it as much as possible with best practices etc.
As is the case with homelab in general, it's pretty simple and easy to get the basics, but Ansible can scale up to enterprise-grade complexity if you really want to go down a rabbit hole. For what you're describing, I think you'll find it to be pretty straightforward.
Thus far I've had very little in the way of difficulty with my self-hosting. Just remember that backups become even more important.