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Larry Smith Jr.

mrlesmithjr
Ball Ground, GA

Hi, I'm Larry

I'm an infrastructure engineer who has been building and maintaining open source Ansible roles for over a decade. My roles cover everything from MariaDB Galera clusters to ZFS, LVM, KVM, and network configuration — used by thousands of engineers and organizations worldwide, including enterprise teams running them in production at scale.

What I maintain

  • 26 actively maintained Ansible roles
  • 3,000+ stars and 1,900+ forks across the portfolio
  • Roles downloaded 1,000+ times per week
  • Tested across 10+ Linux distributions via Molecule CI

How sponsorship helps

These roles are free and open source. Sponsorship directly funds:

  • Time spent triaging and resolving issues
  • Keeping roles current with new OS releases and Ansible versions
  • Responding to contributor PRs

If your organization depends on any of these roles in production, please consider sponsoring to ensure they stay maintained.

Featured work

  1. mrlesmithjr/Ansible

    Collection of Ansible playbooks, roles, and examples for infrastructure automation

    Jinja 175
  2. Shell 118
  3. mrlesmithjr/ansible-rpi-k8s-cluster

    Deploy Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster using Ansible

    Jinja 147
  4. mrlesmithjr/vagrant-box-templates

    Vagrant box templates with Packer for building development environments

    Python 142
  5. Jinja 76
  6. Shell 59

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