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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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So I have a laptop (already configured with Arch), openwrt router, a Pi 5 for Jellyfin with Diet Pi, and a desktop. I want to put Arch with Hyperland on the desktop. It would be cool if I could just use Ansible to perform updates on the Arch Nodes at once. I also have trouble remembering configs and it causes me problems. I'd like to use my other Pi 3s with Arch for Immich, NextCloud ( I have a digital book library), Wikipedia, and etc if possible. Honestly the Pi 5 is not up yet so I could use Ansible for all. I wouldn't have put Diet Pi on there if I had previously thought about automating Arch with Ansible.
Hell, I think I just talked myself into it.
ansible's strength comes in the form of infrastructure as code and managing armies of systems; it sounds like it'll atleast help with the first part since i rely on iac to help me learn and remember configs also.
What is IAC?
it's an acronym that stands for infrastructure as code.
it's useful to me because you literally have to write down your configuration as source code to use your infrastructure so it makes it really hard to forget what you have done.