If you are looking for a similar project based on Debian Stable, you can check out DebOps: https://debops.org/ (disclaimier, I'm the author and main contributor).

This is also a set of Ansible playbooks and roles that use a Debian Stable net install as a base and let you pick and choose the services you want to configure. It supports multi-host deployments, provides an internal CA by default and is designed to be used as a base for your own applications - you are encouraged to use DebOps roles in your own playbooks to integrate with existing service configuration like firewall, web server, etc.

You can check out the list of Ansible roles available in the project [1], there's also a Getting Started guide [2]. Project has its own IRC channel, #debops on FreeNode, as well as a mailing list [3], if you need support.

[1]: https://docs.debops.org/en/master/ansible/role-index.html

[2]: https://docs.debops.org/en/master/debops-playbooks/guides/ge...

[3]: https://lists.debops.org/mailman/listinfo

sorry, could not find DebOps in Debian stable, so nothing for me ;-)

Touché. The `debops` package is in Debian Experimental, but it is a very old version. Before re-introducing it, I would like to clean up the code of the roles first and bring everything up to date, but this will take time, definitely not before Buster becomes Stable.

I'm a Debian guy too, but there are times when you need something more recent than Debian supports, or something which is not packaged at all.

I've backported packages for myself a few times, and in the other cases I'll install binaries beneath `/opt`, where they'll be out of the way.