Zero-Inventory Ansible Playbooks for macOS, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux

Structuring idempotent Ansible playbooks that run on macOS, Ubuntu/Debian, and Arch Linux with -c local -i ’localhost,’ — normalizing Homebrew, APT, and Pacman, fixing Debian binary naming quirks, and bootstrapping Neovim + tmux.

November 6, 2026 · 4 min · 786 words · John Dansak

Provisioning an AMD Strix Halo Local LLM Node with Ansible, ROCm 7.1, and llama.cpp

How I automated a 128 GB unified-memory AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo gfx1150) box to run 60+ GB GGUF models in GPU memory using Ansible, kernel TTM/GTT tuning, ROCm 7.1, and llama-server router mode.

November 4, 2026 · 4 min · 681 words · John Dansak