ansible_controller

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Set up a machine to develop roles and run ansible-playbook tasks. Include all the bells and whistles for a great ansible dev environment and package dependencies.

For a bare bones ansible installer see geerlingguy.ansible role. on ansible-galaxy. This role sets you up to develop ansible like a boss.

Install ansible to remote machines from an existing ansible_controller ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_controller_site.yml

Auto-installing to localhost.
We don't have ansible yet, so can't run ansible-playbook! First, copy files/ansible_bootstrap.sh (web-copy is fine) to your desired installation directory.
ansible_controller_project_home> chmod a+x ansible_bootstrap.sh ansible_controller_project_home> ./ansible_bootstrap.sh

Darwin/OSX X code commandline tools

OSX or Debian family Installs ansible, git, pip then clones this repo and runs ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_controller_site.yml -K -vvvv to complete the installation

Redhat/Centos family (Not supported, pull requests welcome)

You can pick and chose or add to the vars below defined in defaults/main.yml ansible_controller_dmgs is a list of osx dmgs to install ansible_controller_apt_packages for Debian/Ubuntu family ansible_controller_pip_packages: python packages for OSX or Debian/Ubuntu ansible_controller_gems: ruby packages

Control the type of ansible installation: You may wish to have multiple installations and switch between them as needed. ansible_controller_from_pip: True ansible_controller_from_apt: False ansible_controller_from_homebrew: False ansible_controller_from_git_source: False

OSX geerlingguy.homebrew

Create a project directory, for example

mkdir deploy_controllers; cd !$

This will be a canonical ansible tree:

tree /path/to/deploy_controllers |-hosts |-ansible_controller_site.yml |-roles/ |---ansible_controller/

You may want to add other deployment roles here as submodules in the roles/ directory, such as gce_controller - Google Compute Engine aws_controller - AWS jenkins - continuous builds (build binaries) GoCD - continuous delivery pipelines

Add hosts and ansible_controller_site.yml to deploy_controllers:

cat ansible_controller_site.yml - hosts: all roles: - { role: darKoram.ansible-roles-ansible-controller }

Or (recommended) strip off the common prefix "ansible-roles" by specifying the name of the folder to clone to:

clone https://github.com/darKoram/ansible-roles-ansible-controller.git adarKoram.ansible_controller cd ansible_controller ansible-controller -i hosts ansible_controller_site.yml -K -vvvv We use -K to request the sudo password for localhost and -vvvv for max verbosity

cat ansible_controller_site.yml

- hosts: ansible_controller
  roles:
     - { role: darKoram.ansible_controller }

cat hosts [ansible_controller] localhost connecton=local ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python

This would be helpful if you are setting up a shared cloud hosted ansible controller, or if you need multiple build agents to parallelize bottleneck steps in the CI process.

cat hosts [ansible_controller] agent1 agent2 agent3

BSD

Kesten Broughton