Homelab Series - Bootstrap

Lay out an easy to follow guide to setup a homelab, with repeatable and scripted actions where possible. The homelab repo on github will contain all the good bits.

You have a server, virtual machine, LXC container, or the like, with SSH access.
The system should be running Debian, similar OS may work with small changes.

Setup Ansible either directly on the server, or on your desktop using the bootstrap script.
- You need to be running a Linux desktop and have SSH keys copied to the server if putting Ansible on the desktop.
- Otherwise you can run the bootstrap script on the server itself.
From the same directory as the bootstrap script was ran, activate the ansible environment
- 1 source env/bin/activate
Edit the ansible/hosts file to add the server IP(s), see example proxmox, or use desktops group for local.
Run the Debian playbook for the base configuration changes
- note: limit in this case will run it on your local host.
- 1 2 cd homelab ansible-playbook run_debian_template.yml --limit=desktops
Next lets install docker and portainer on the homelab server.
- In this case we just install it locally on one machine, but if you put a list or range of IPs in hosts earlier, all of them will be setup as part of your homelab.
- 1 ansible-playbook run_docker.yml --limit=desktops
What to read next? How about this article to get started filling docker up with useful containers?
- Portainer Deployments
- UPDATE: The homelab repo has an additional role to deploy minecraft, replacing the need for this previous repository.

Homelab series - Bootstrap