The Operations Kernel.
A container goes down. The system detects the failure, selects the right response, and restores service — no ticket, no escalation, no downtime. Dozens of alert rules. Dozens of automated remediations. Built on open-source tools.
$ What You Get
Running on 13 hosts and 34 containers right now. Deployed with Ansible. Every line in Git.
Container crashes. Alert fires. Ansible playbook runs. Container comes back. Total elapsed time: under 60 seconds. Zero-touch remediation for every known failure mode.
Prometheus scrapes every host every 15 seconds. Grafana shows you the dashboards. Loki keeps 90 days of logs. One playbook deploys all of it.
Restic snapshots run daily. The operations agent verifies them every morning at 07:00 UTC. If a snapshot is stale, you hear about it before it matters.
Ansible configures the servers. Infrastructure-as-code from provisioning to monitoring. If a host dies, we rebuild it from the repo. No hand-editing, no mystery config.
$ See it in action
A real scenario: disk usage crosses a threshold. Here's the outcome — automatically.
$ The Numbers
Not a demo. Not a proof of concept. These are production numbers from a live fleet.
Plans start at $75/server/month. 14-day free trial.
$ Managed Hosting
All management traffic runs over Tailscale VPN. SSH key-only, fail2ban, encrypted backups. Zero management ports on the public internet.
Metrics scraped every 15 seconds. Dozens of alert rules, tuned to your stack. You get a read-only dashboard link — same views we use.
Known issues remediate automatically in under 60 seconds. Escalation tiers classify risk. Unknown issues page a human. Every action logged, every outcome notified.
30-day uptime, alert history, billing, infrastructure status. Magic link login — no passwords to manage.
You shouldn't need a full-time sysadmin to run a reliable stack. OpsKern provides managed server hosting — built on the same open-source Ansible collection, with security hardening and 24/7 monitoring baked in. Small businesses get enterprise-grade infrastructure without the enterprise price tag.
The same autonomous remediation and monitoring stack, deployed to your infrastructure. We add VPN-secured management, encrypted backups, vulnerability scanning, and a human who picks up the phone when the automation reaches its limit.
$ The Book
Not a tutorial that stops at 'hello world.' This is the whole stack — from Proxmox provisioning to the operations agent that makes your infrastructure fix itself. Every decision explained. Every tradeoff documented.
$ Open Source
The Ansible collection is MIT-licensed. Read it, fork it, run it on your own hardware. No signup required.
The full Ansible collection — provisioning, monitoring, backups, security, and autonomous remediation. Fork it and deploy.
View on GitHubFork it. Adapt it. Run it.
The 20 commands and patterns that make a homelab self-healing. One page. No fluff. No signup required.
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