Hello all,
I am very experienced in IT but very new in Obsidian. It looks beautiful and seems to be joy to work with. I have the following use-case.
I want to document and manage my quite complex home IT environment.
I have a physical server with proxmox and a bunch of containers for file and media servers, WLAN access point, Switch, Hardware Firewall, a printer and some servers (Mail, Nextcloud, Paperless) hosted at Hetzner. And of course PCs, Handies, Tablets and the like.
A part of this is already managed with ansible and so I have infrastructure as code, ad least in parts. But ansible READMEs for the roles an playbooks are not the place for the big picture.
I see Obsidian as an inventory for all the “things” in my IT and their relationships plus a good basis for a lightweight tracking system for changes. My idea is :
- Build some templates with properties for the items in the inventory.
- Build dataviews and use Breadcrumbs to document the relationships between them and make them understandable.
- Write Requirements in prose with some tasks mixed in and link them to the inventory items.
- Link, link, link.
This is quite another thing as a Zettelkasten, the structure of the information is on the low level quite clear and easy to see. But of course ‘Notes’ in the classical sense have their place too.
I have high hopes to get a handle on this thorny problem, because I can now connect structured data, drawings and text in aconsistent and reliable manner.
Because I am so new to Obsidian i would be very grateful for any hints how to do this in Obsidian.
Thanks and all the best
Norbert