Ansible Workflows

Trigger

Use this skill when the user wants to:

• Create or edit Ansible playbooks for home lab provisioning
• Set up or modify the Ansible inventory for Pi nodes
• Run playbooks from Windows using Docker or WSL
• Write roles for deploying services, configuring networking, or hardening security
• Debug Ansible task failures or connection issues
• Manage group_vars and host_vars for environment-specific configuration

Required Inputs

• Target host(s) -- Pi hostname or IP, or inventory group name
• Desired outcome -- what the playbook should provision or configure
• Ansible project location -- defaults to ansible/ in the repo root
• SSH key path for the control node to reach managed hosts