Context My homelab runs on a single physical server: an old i7 with 32 GB of RAM. On top of it, I built a Kubernetes cluster with microk8s. It scales easily, the community is huge, and there is a tool for everything: logs, security, backups. It can also run in hybrid mode, with my local node and some nodes in the cloud if I ever need them. I didn’t start with a few containers and migrate later. I went straight to Kubernetes. ...
Ansible is an open source configuration management solution that takes the form of a script performing user-defined actions via SSH on one or more machines. It automates tasks like installations across many machines while customizing configurations. The software has numerous extensions that make it almost never necessary to use raw Linux commands in scripts. All these modules also allow Ansible to test whether a task needs to be executed based on the machine’s state – for example, if instructed to start a process that is already running, Ansible will skip it and move to the next action. ...