Ansible Role: Gentoo_install

This role helps you install Gentoo Linux using an InstallCD environment.

It manages all the necessary steps to set up Gentoo when running from the InstallCD. This includes partitioning the disk, formatting and mounting filesystems, downloading and extracting the stage tarball, configuring language settings and the timezone, building a kernel (using genkernel), installing and configuring syslog and cron services, installing the GRUB bootloader, unmounting filesystems, and rebooting the system.

To use this role, you need to boot from the InstallCD image with commands like:

gentoo dosshd passwd=some_root_pass

Next, create a playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  vars:
    # The 'portage' module does not work with Python 3, which is the default in the stage tarball
    ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python2
  roles:
    - gentoo_install

Then, run Ansible with a command like this:

$ ansible-playbook -i <IP address>, -e ansible_password=some_root_pass -e gentoo_install_hostname=myhostname gentoo_install.yml