Ansible

In this section

• Collection
  • List

  1ansible-galaxy collection list
  

  • Install an Ansible Collection

   1# From Ansible Galaxy official repo
   2ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
   3
   4# From a tarball locally
   5ansible-galaxy collection install ./community-general-6.0.0.tar.gz
   6
   7# From custom Repo
   8ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://git.example.com/projects/namespace.collectionName.git
   9ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://git.example.com/projects/namespace.collectionName,v1.0.2
  10ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://git.example.com/namespace/collectionName.git
  11
  12# From a requirement.yml file
  13ansible-galaxy collection install -r ./requirement.yaml
  

  • Requirement file to install Ansible Collection

  1collections:
  2- name: kubernetes.core
  3
  4- source: https://gitlab.example.com/super-group/collector.git
  5  type: git
  6  version: "v1.0.6"
  7
  8- source: https://gitlab.ipolicedev.int/another-projects/plates.git
  9  type: git
  

• Inventory

  1ansible-inventory --list | jq -r 'map_values(select(.hosts != null and (.hosts | contains(["myhost"])))) | keys[]'
  

  1kafka_host: "[{{ groups['KAFKA'] | map('extract', hostvars, 'inventory_hostname') | map('regex_replace', '^', '\"') | map('regex_replace', '\\\"', '\"') | map('regex_replace', '$', ':'+ kafka_port +'\"') | join(', ') }}]"
  2
  3elasticsearch_host: "{{ groups['ELASTICSEARCH'] | map('extract', hostvars, 'inventory_hostname') | map('regex_replace', '^', '\"') | map('regex_replace', '\\\"', '\"') | map('regex_replace', '$', ':'+ elasticsearch_port +'\"') | join(', ') }}"
  

• Pull
  • Test locally a playbook

  1ansible-pull -U https://github.com/MozeBaltyk/Okub.git ./playbooks/tasks/provision.yml
  

  • Inside a cloud-init

   1#cloud-config
   2timezone: ${timezone}
   3
   4packages:
   5  - qemu-guest-agent
   6  - git
   7
   8package_update: true
   9package_upgrade: true
  10
  11
  12## Test 1
  13ansible:
  14  install_method: pip
  15  package_name: ansible-core
  16  run_user: ansible
  17  galaxy:
  18    actions:
  19      - ["ansible-galaxy", "collection", "install", "community.general"]
  20      - ["ansible-galaxy", "collection", "install", "ansible.posix"]
  21      - ["ansible-galaxy", "collection", "install", "ansible.utils"]
  22  pull:
  23    playbook_name: ./playbooks/tasks/provision.yml
  24    url: "https://github.com/MozeBaltyk/Okub.git"
  25
  26## Test 2
  27ansible:
  28  install_method: pip
  29  package_name: ansible
  30  #run_user only with install_method: pip
  31  run_user: ansible
  32  setup_controller:
  33    repositories:
  34      - path: /home/ansible/Okub
  35        source: https://github.com/MozeBaltyk/Okub.git
  36    run_ansible:
  37      - playbook_dir: /home/ansible/Okub
  38        playbook_name: ./playbooks/tasks/provision.yml
  39########
  

  • Troubleshooting

  1systemctl --failed
  2systemctl list-jobs --after
  3journalctl -e
  

  Checks user-data and config: