Home Server Ansible Config

Contained in this repo is the Ansible configuration I defined for use on my home server.

Server Info:

MOBO: Asus Z10PA-D8 
CPU: 2 x Intel E5 Xeon 2683 v4
RAM: 128 GB 2400Mhz DDR4 ECC

OS: 22.04 Ubuntu Home

Steps

First start by install any required roles or collections via:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

A quick overview of the steps taken to initialize my home server is this

Initial system configuration
- SSH settings
  - No password auth allowed
  - Copy key file
- Passwordless sudo for my user
Building RAID arrays
- I've written two roles for this. One using zfs and the other mdadm.
- The arrays aren't too complicated and are built via mdadm. No fancy caching or additional parity.
- They can be specified via some variables as to which drives are in what arrays, their mount points, and RAID level.
  - more in depth explanation here
- I've catered this role to work on Ubuntu (Debian) systems primarily given that's my use case.
Install and configure Docker containers
- The installation itself is handled via geerlingguy's role
- The containers I provision are:
  - Portainer Community Edition
  - Plex
  - PiHole
  - Transmission
- I choose to use strict versions for my containers to not introduce breaking changes by accident
Configure NAS capabilities via Samba

I'm no ansible expert so I'll link the various sources I pulled from to get this working: