Remember to make a backup!

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@bdollerup

I would really appreciate it if you would share both your config files and your general experience with using Ansible with OH.

I don’t want to hijack this thread so I’ll post a new one. For some of my older examples and musings see A quick intro to Ansible. There has been a lot written on the forum in addition by me and others. I’ve recently gone through a complete rewrite of my roles to make them all much more idempotent. I’m not yet using Ansible vault so I can’t really post the whole shebang to Github but I can share the openHAB related ones here.

I’ll update this reply once I write the new post about Ansible.

Ansible Revisited

EDIT: Fixed some bugs identified in the comments Note: I talk a lot about Gogs below. This weekend (10/4/2020 I gave up on Gogs and am now using GitLab) I was asked to provide some more information on Ansible and using it with openHAB. To start, see A quick intro to Ansible and An Ansible 'Getting Started' Guide and https://docs.ansible.com/ for the basics of Ansible and getting started overall. This post isn’t going to rehash the basics and will assume some knowledge of Ansible. Instead I’m …

But a tl;dr is my general experience using it with OH is the same as using it for NextCloud, my own custom services, Nightscout, etc. It’s awesome! I don’t have to remember anything! It’s all written down and it’s all there checked in to my personal git server where I can see the history of my machine’s configurations. OS upgrades are super easy too: install the new OS and run the Ansible playbook to reconfigure everything. Everything is documented and repeatable.