I've fallen in love with Ansible again.

For the last few years I've been fully on the immutable infrastructure wagon (terraform/opentofu) but currently I am working on a project on a shoestring budget that only allows for a single `t4g.small` with a few small services running.

Aside from being a bit slow, I can't afford the downtime of constantly yeeting the ec2 to re-initialise via userdata without the redundancy of a load balancer and additional workers.

Hence, Ansible to incrementally iterate on config tweaks. The feedback loop is so satisfying.

Tonight's accomplishment:

A full Prometheus + Grafana + Loki setup for the home server and PiHole.

Overkill? Yes, but I wanted to play with these tools, and also, I am hoping to diagnose and alert on an issue causing my Pi-Hole to periodically crash.