My choice is OpenWrt and specialized hardware. It is much better suited for home use and has much lower power consumption (i.e. silent). Right now I’m looking for replacement for my home router and going to buy one of Banana Pi boards. However in the US the optimal choice may be different.
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I didn’t try many of them. I use Ansible for my job, but sometimes I hate it. I would try Terraform/OpenTofu or Salt if I were looking for alternative.
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you don’t really need to scale a homelab that much
Maybe. But you never know this beforehand.
if something breaks, you just want to quickly fix it manually because “doing the Ansible” is more of a pain
In most cases you just need to replay a playbook for quick fix. But I agree that the proper fix will likely take a longer time (while downtime is much shorter).
now idempotency and documentation-as-code is out of the window.
Let @[email protected] decide.
P. S. I don’t like Ansible, other tools can be easier to use. But I don’t want to recommend something concrete.
It is hard, if even possible, to keep documentation up-to-date. Better use a configuration management system (salt, ansible etc.) for your servers. Yes, you need to learn how to use it. Yes, it will take a longer time to make changes in your configuration. But as a result you’ll have a self-documented configuration-as-a-code that will allow you to scale your setup as you need. Reproducing something won’t require reading your notes, remembering your actions etc.
Yes, it is normal.