ansible-nas/docs/index.md

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After getting burned by broken FreeNAS updates one too many times, I figured I could do a much better job myself using just a stock Ubuntu install, some clever Ansible config and a bunch of Docker containers. Ansible-NAS was born!

Features

  • An awesome dashboard to your home server (Heimdall)
  • Any number of Samba shares for you to store your stuff
  • A BitTorrent client
  • Various media management tools - Sonarr, Sickchill, CouchPotato, Radarr
  • Media streaming via Plex, Emby or MiniDLNA
  • Music streaming with Airsonic
  • A Dropbox replacement via Nextcloud
  • Various ways to see stats about your NAS - Glances, dashboards in Grafana
  • A backup tool - allows scheduled backups to Amazon S3, OneDrive, Dropbox etc
  • An IRC bouncer
  • Source control with Gitea
  • SSL secured external access to some applications via Traefik
  • A Docker host with Portainer management - run anything that's shipped as a Docker container

Getting Started

Head to installation if you're ready to roll, or to testing if you want to spin up a test Virtual Machine first. Once you're done, check out the post-installation steps.

If this is all very confusing, there is also an overview of the project and what is required for complete beginners.