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Overview

How It All Fits Together

The big picture, before you dive into any one project

Skybaer Labs isn’t a set of disconnected side projects. It’s built to mirror how a small hybrid environment actually runs: a fleet of Linux servers under configuration management, a container platform hosting that automation, and a Windows enterprise stack tied into the same identity system as everything else. Here’s how the pieces connect.

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Automation Platform Ansible + AWX (inside nested OpenShift / CRC) playbooks synced from GitHub Linux Fleet control.lab + node1-4.lab RHEL 10 web + db groups Windows Enterprise Stack DC01 (formerly WinLab2025) AD DS · SQL Server IIS · MECM / ConfigMgr foreman.lab systems lifecycle · not yet wired in Ansible / SSH Ansible / WinRM Shared identity: AD domain join (realmd / sssd) not yet connected
An Automation Platform (Ansible and AWX) manages both the Linux Fleet and the Windows Enterprise Stack directly. Those two platforms also share one identity through an Active Directory domain join. Foreman is provisioned but not yet wired into the automation.

Linux Fleet

control.lab drives Ansible playbooks against four RHEL 10 nodes for hands-on development and testing. See the Ansible / RHCE Lab.

Automation & Container Platform

AWX, running inside a nested OpenShift cluster, pulls the same playbooks from GitHub and runs them as scheduled or on-demand jobs against the whole fleet, Linux and Windows alike. See OpenShift & AWX.

Windows Enterprise Stack

DC01 (formerly WinLab2025) is the domain controller for the lab, and also runs SQL Server, IIS, and a Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager site. See Windows Integration.

One identity, both platforms

control.lab and the RHEL nodes join that same domain via realmd and sssd, so Linux and Windows share one directory instead of running as two separate islands.

What’s next: Foreman / Satellite

foreman.lab is live and mid-configuration for systems lifecycle management and patching, not yet wired into the automation above. See Foreman / Satellite.

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