Ansible is just the automation engine on its own, so it needs instructions detailing all the processes I wish to automate.

Eventually, I'll have Ansible playbooks for every aspect of my home lab and home network, including Proxmox hosts, their ...

Playbooks make Ansible even more powerful than before. To be quite honest, if Ansible had nothing but its ad-hoc mode, it still would be a powerful and useful tool for automating large numbers of ...