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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/i8ad8 on 2025-06-01 20:57:54+00:00.
I’ve been using Ansible extensively to deploy services across my homelab and a few VPS servers, but I hadn’t really used it much for ongoing maintenance tasks—until recently. I discovered Semaphore UI and started using its scheduling feature to run regular maintenance playbooks. It’s been a great way to automate updates, disk checks, and other housekeeping without writing extra cron jobs or scripts.
Before this, I used n8n for a lot of automation, and I still use it for workflows that are more complex or not as easily expressed in Ansible. But for anything infrastructure-related, I now prefer Ansible + Semaphore UI because it feels more organized and declarative.
Curious what others are using for automation in their homelabs. Do you use Ansible + Semaphore UI, n8n, Node-RED, Bash/Python scripts, or something else entirely?
