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+# infra
+
+Houses configuration management, IaC, and other random shit related to my personal infrastructure.  Critiques welcome, though likely to be ignored :-) 
+
+## Ansible
+Used to manage both homelab and cloud resources.  I prefer saltstack but Ansible is just more lightweight for personal use.  There are cases where I clearly could use better templating, logic, etc. (such as the unbound config for home, split horizon DNS).  At this point I could write unbound config in my sleep, so there's just no sense in me writing more logic around it today.  
+
+## Misc
+Helper scripts, such as that which is used to automate ansible updating all hosts.  This may become deprecated with time as something like Gitea runners is used instead.