I host sites for friends and my projects; it's a hobby of mine. Dumping a bunch of files on an AWS instance and hope it never breaks is stupid, and I've been fighting myself against that for a long time. I've finally fixed that, but as a result I ended up with a bit-rotted Nagios monitoring server that did little more than alert me when my hosts' disk partitions started to fill up. Boo hoo.

I also have a dayjob wherein I should be practicing responsible systems administration, since, you know, I'm the only person responsible for making sure these things work.

Over the last few days, I've re-engineered my Nagios server from the ground up and integrated my various application hosting templates (which i'll start open sourcing, little by little) with Nagios rulesets. This all is pretty standard fair, but setting up a single playset that I can deploy to all of my statically hosted HTML site playbooks, all of my jekyll sites playbooks, and another playset that I can add to a Rails app template, another for Django apps, and suddenly 95% of the things I would host are covered in Nagios as soon as I deploy them. That's hot.

If you've not used Ansible before, I'd highly recommend giving it a look. Like I said, I'll be opening up the repos for my various plays and playbooks soon.

It should be pretty obvious that these playbooks dont' work OOTB, rather they're meant to be templates and structure.