Ansible Dashboard – Deployment & Server Automation Platform

Overview

A web dashboard that runs Ansible from the browser: a FastAPI API queues jobs, a separate worker executes playbooks, and a React + TypeScript UI shows live logs, history and audit records.

Architecture

What I built

• Built a web dashboard that runs Ansible from the browser: a FastAPI API queues jobs, a separate worker executes playbooks, and a React + TypeScript UI shows live logs, history and audit records.
• Wrote 53 playbooks across 6 projects covering deploy, redeploy, rollback, restart, logs, database backup and restore, full environment cloning, SSH key rotation and monitoring-agent rollout.
• Engineered safety into every run: mandatory --limit targeting, check mode, typed confirmations for dangerous actions, per-server job locking and backup-before-redeploy.
• Developed idempotent disk automation for Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 (GPT, XFS/ext4, UUID-based fstab) that refuses boot disks, LVM volumes, RAID members and existing filesystems.
• Secured access with JWT, TOTP two-factor, role-based permissions with risk tiers, Ansible Vault per host and HashiCorp Vault, with secrets redacted from all job output.
• Added PostgreSQL backups streamed over SSH directly into S3 storage with checksums, a Go monitoring agent for host, GPU and Docker metrics, and an MCP server for AI-assisted operations.