Aap

Infrastructure as Code with Ansible Automation Platform

July 13, 2025
Infrastructure, DevOps
Ansible, Aap, Infrastructure as Code, Iac, Automation, Devops, Awx, Ansible Automation Platform

Infrastructure as Code for Ansible Automation Platform Setup #

Introduction #

Setting up Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) manually through the web interface is tedious and highly prone to errors.

I’ve written an Ansible playbook that completely automates the setup of my AAP environment, from credentials and projects to job templates and workflow orchestration. So in case I ever need to rebuild the environment from scratch, all I would need to do is just add the project where that playbook is stored, and add a single template by hand and run it. I’d do it that way because I don’t like running ansible playbooks from the CLI, I always, always use AAP!

Automated KVM VM Provisioning with Ansible and OSBuild on RHEL9

July 3, 2025
Infrastructure, DevOps
Ansible, Rhel9, Libvirt, Kvm, Osbuild, Automation, Virtualization, Qemu, Ansible Automation Platform, Aap

Automated KVM VM Provisioning with Ansible and OSBuild on RHEL9 #

Introduction #

When I started looking into automating my homelab VM provisioning, I was surprised by the lack of examples combining Ansible with OSBuild for KVM environments. Not many tutorials focus on KVM, so I wanted something that used Red Hat’s tooling - as I run a RHEL homelab.

I used to provision my homelab virtual machines by hand and eventually I got tired of doing it since I like to tinker around a lot and constantly add new VMs. So, I decided to automate the process using the combination of Ansible and OSBuild.