Becoming an Ansible Collection Maintainer: community.beszel

In this blog post I wanted to talk about how I became a maintainer for the community.beszel Ansible Collection and my learnings. What is Beszel? Beszel is a simple, lightweight server monitoring software which can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure. I first heard about Beszel whilst reading the /r/selfhosted subreddit about a year ago, and a couple of months ago I had time to deploy it in my Home-Ops project. Beszel consists of two components: the hub and the agent. The hub provides a web interface for visualising the data sent from agents which run on your servers. My Beszel Hub is currently receiving data from 10 systems in my Homelab: ...

October 2, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Daniel Brennand