Ansible Homelab Cheat Sheet

$ ansible-homelab-cheatsheet

The 20 Ansible patterns you’ll actually use in a homelab — plus 5 common failures and the exact fix for each one. One page. No fluff. No signup.

What’s inside

• 20 production patterns — container restarts, handler-driven deploys, disk cleanup, backup verification, TLS cert checks, health probes, rolling updates, Vault secrets, fleet status, Prometheus alert templates, NFS pre-flight checks, systemd timers, and more.
• 5 common failures with fixes — OOMKilled containers, Restic permission errors, stale NFS mounts, port conflicts, and the classic “UNREACHABLE” SSH issue.
• Reference directory structure — how to organise roles, playbooks, remediation scripts, inventory, and vault files.
• 10 most-used commands — the Ansible CLI commands you’ll run every week.

Everything in the cheat sheet comes from a production homelab running 13 hosts and 34 containers with autonomous remediation.

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