Treating AI Agents Like Infrastructure: Provisioning Hermes Agent with Ansible

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve spent 18 years making cloud infrastructure reproducible. Terraform modules for databases. Ansible roles for VM configuration. Packer templates for golden images. When I started running an AI agent on a Linux VM, I didn’t think about it — I reached for Ansible.

Three days and 15 commits later, I had a fully idempotent playbook that provisions Hermes Agent from bare Ubuntu to production-ready. And the patterns I used? They’re the same ones I use for databases and caching clusters. That’s not a coincidence — it’s the point.

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Treating AI Agents Like Infrastructure: Provisioning Hermes Agent with Ansible