Ansible Role: Flight Deck Base

This role installs basic utilities and sets up common configurations for the Flight Deck container set.

Requirements

• No requirements.

Role Variables

Here are the available variables, along with their default values (see defaults/main.yml).

Creating Groups

flightdeck_groups

This variable specifies which groups to create.

flightdeck_groups:
  - name: "flightdeck"
  - name: "green"
    gid: 999
  - name: "purple"
    system: true

Creating Users

flightdeck_users

This variable specifies which users to create. The format is similar to socketwench.users-and-groups.

Groups must be created first using flightdeck_groups.

flightdeck_users:
  - name: "flightdeck"
    group: "flightdeck"
    home: "/home/flightdeck"

Customizing the Prompt

flightdeck_root_prompt and flightdeck_user_prompt

These allow you to change the default command line prompt for the root user and for all other users.

Installing Packages

flightdeck_base_packages

This variable specifies a list of packages to install on Alpine Linux. If it's not provided, bash will be installed by default.

Customizing the Entrypoint

flightdeck_run_commands

By default, this role creates an entrypoint script, /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh, for Docker. You can add more commands by using this variable:

flightdeck_run_commands: |
    ansible-playbook -i /ansible/inventories/all.ini /ansible/run.yml

Dependencies

No dependencies.

Example Playbook

To use the role, add it to a playbook that runs during docker build.

- hosts: docker
  roles:
     - role: ten7.flightdeck_base

License

This role is licensed under GPL v3.

Author Information

This role was created by TEN7.