1. What is BlueBanquise

BlueBanquise is a generic stack, based on Ansible, whose purpose is to deploy and manage clusters of hosts. These clusters can be from few workstations to very large HPC or servers farm clusters.

BlueBanquise is the result of a need for a stack that can keep simplicity while managing very complex architecture.

The BlueBanquise project also aims to train new system administrators to the deployment of bare metal servers.

The project relies on Ansible, chosen for its simplicity and its security. The Ansible inventory groups/variables mechanism can cover from very simple to very sophisticated configurations. Ansible is not the fastest tool, nor the simplest to debug. However, it is easy to learn, and widely used today with an active community.

If you encounter any bugs/issues or have any comments, please inform me.

Note also that since BlueBanquise is a multi-distribution based stack, parts of the documentation may be dedicated to a specific Linux distribution (always explicitly mentioned).

I hope you will enjoy this stack as much as I do developing it.

If you need help, do not hesitate to use the discussions tab of the project’s github or reach me using the contacts section.