Ansible Role: Common Generic Tasks

This role carries out basic tasks needed by other roles, such as:

• Installing Python, Except, and other essential Linux packages.
• Installing, configuring, and starting the NTP service.
• Disabling Selinux.
• Disabling Iptables/firewalld and ufw.

These tasks are necessary for other roles that set up ipaserver, ipaclient, and Hadoop applications.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  become_user: True
  gather_facts: True
  
  roles:
    - yabhinav.common

Issues

• The Selinux module may fail if Selinux isn't installed. Check if the Selinux configuration file exists or use ansible_selinux to see if Selinux is present (and not enabled or running).
• On Ubuntu 12.04, an older version of Jinja2 (2.2) can cause issues with Ansible 2.2. Use variables with full quotes as explained here.

License

MIT

Author Information

Created by Abhinav Yalamanchili