Elevator Pitch
If you operate hosts for virtual servers your main task will be to provision standard machines for the users fast. Using a combination of netbox and ansible reduces the workload of the server admin dramatically while also reducing the time until the users can start working on their machines.
Description
If you operate hosts for virtual servers your main task will be to provision standard machines for the users fast. I set up a netbox environment where the users can provision their new servers themselves. ansible uses this netbox to create the virtual machines according to user wishes on the given clusters.
The time to until the users can log in to their machines was reduced from 3 days to about 15 minutes.
In a side project I set up an ansible playbook that sets up monitoring for the new machines if the tag “monitoring” is found in the context of the virtual server.