homelab/step-by-step.md

Almost automated step by step walkthrough of full lab deployment

This is will be the complete walkthrough of the deployment of my homelab.

• On a PC/laptop, clone this git repo

• Create your vault file for secrets (and store somewhere safe)

  vi ~/.vault_pass.txt
  chmod 644 ~/.vault_pass.txt
  

• Add "export ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE=~/.vault_pass.txt" to your shell profile.

• Create vault file

  cd homelab/group_vars/all
  ansible-vault create vault
  

• Modify ansible variables for your environment

Network Manual

Storage Manual

Proxmox Manual

Unbound DNS Manual

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Build infra01

• Copy .vault_pass.txt from laptop and set env variable

• Clone git repo

• Install ansible required packages

  cd homelab
  ansible-galaxy collection install -r
  

FreeIPA Manual

Templates Manual

Matchbox Manual

• Downloading the Agent-based Installer

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Hub Cluster In Progress

Prepare matchbox to install hub cluster

Running this playbook will configure Matchbox to wait for the sno-cluster to boot via iPXE and will install Single Node OpenShift. All configuration files are built from templates driven from Ansible variables.

cd homelab
ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml 10-sno-hub-cluster/install.yml

• PXE boot the SNO host

Internal Cluster TBD

(Deployed in conjunction with ACM)

External Cluster TBD

(Deployed in conjunction with ACM)