You can automate almost anything with Ansible. But should you? I'll talk about a few of the stranger things I've automated with Ansible, from setting up my Mac, to generating HTML for a website! Just because you can automate something with Ansible doesn't mean you _should_. But sometimes it's okay. Mentioned in the video: - My book: https://www.ansiblefordevops.com/ - Internet Pi: https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-pi - Drupal Pi: https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-pi - Ansible Requirements Updater: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-requirements-updater - Mac Dev Playbook: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook - My Ansible Website (HTML): https://ansible.jeffgeerling.com/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://redshirtjeff.com/ #Ansible #AnsibleFest Contents: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Session start 01:57 - Jeff's rule of golden hammers 03:27 - Automating my homelab 04:55 - Internet Pi 08:51 - HTML Templating 12:21 - Ansible requirements updater 16:37 - Mac setup playbook 20:26 - Takeaways