Ansible is just the automation engine on its own, so it needs instructions detailing all the processes I wish to automate.

Eventually, I'll have Ansible playbooks for every aspect of my home lab and home network, including Proxmox hosts, their ...

Many server automation and orchestration solutions, like Puppet and Chef, rely on a mixture of solution-specific coding, Web UIs, and command-line tools to make the magic happen. Ansible is different.