Adding Memos to a VM

2026-05-03

The complete addition of Memos to the Ansible playbook for my general purpose VM took about 30 minutes (without any AI assistance, because I am still not using AI on my personal machine.). This is great! With a more complex orchestration platform such as Kubernetes, getting the application running is easy enough: A Deployment manifest to run Memos would be very easy. However, getting it to be stateful will be hard. (On a VM, I am happy to let Memos use its built-in Sqlite backend. On Kubernetes, this would be reckless because pods are ephemeral and shouldn’t be used to store data.)