Ansible tips&tricks
In this site you will find much of the documentation that I collected
over the years. This is by no means a "We say so" document.
I have worked in a number of organizations implementing ansible and
automation platform, this is my personal view on "How I would do this".
Yust writing all knowledge down helps me to burn it into my braincells.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I did writing and learning it.
Enjoy..
Build an enterprise grade lab on your local computer
Learn how to setup a lab that can test your code like it was in the enterprise, just follow these steps.
Lab on virtualbox
Build a homelab to run it all
Follow me as I build a homelab on a mini PC using Proxmox.
Lab on proxmox
GitOps explaned
Always wanted to know about GitOps?
Read on..
Gitops automation
Config as Code automation platform 2.4
Everything and more you need to know about config as code for ansible automation platform 2.4. never lose your configuration again!
Config as code rhaap 2.4
Config as Code Automation Platform 2.5
Description of a possible solution for configuration as code for ansible automation platform 2.5.
Config as Code rhaap 2.5
Config as Code Automation Platform 2.6 (!Read the message)
Description of a possible solution for configuration as code for ansible automation platform 2.6.
Config as Code rhaap 2.6
Upgrade Config as Code from 2.5 to 2.6
Description of the changes for upgrading form rhaap 2.5 to configuration as code for ansible automation platform 2.6.
Upgrade CaC for Automation Platform 2.5 to 2.6
Inventory construction documentation
Curious how to build an inventory?
Here it is...
Inventory construction
Naming convention Ansible
What's to know about naming conventions, I've got mine here
naming_convention
Infrastructure as Code
Howto create infrastructure as Code, a guide to buildingblocks Infrastructure As Code
Testplan template (not testing playbook, but the result!)
When you are confident about your code (linting, syntax_check), are you just as sure about the result?
Testplan
Optimizing ansible playbooks
Some correct syntax in ansible may take a long time to execute, check here for optimizations
Optimizing ansible
Trigger a job_template from curl in AAP
Why go through the trouble creating webhooks, when it can be so simple..
trigger_aap
This site is still a work in progress, check us regularly for updates.. There is much to be added..
version:
updated: 12-12-2025
updated sections:
- lab on proxmox
- add gitlab runner
updated: 10-12-2025
updated sections:
- GitOps
- GitLab pipelines
- GitHub pipelines
updated: 09-12-2025
updated sections:
- CaC for Automation Platform 2.6
- Base configuration for Automation Platform
updated: 08-12-2025
updated sections:
- Lab on proxmox
- Add docker host
- Install Automation Platform
update: 28-11-2025
updated sections:
- CaC for Automation Platform 2.6
- Building Execution environments
update: 27-11-2025
- CaC for Automation Platform 2.6
- Base configuration for Automation Platform
- Building Execution environments
- Configuration As Code (CaC) Pipeline / creating the pipeline image