Ansible Role: Essentials

Ansible Role that installs and configure essential software on Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

Use hash behavior for variables in ansible.cfg

• See example: https://github.com/Aplyca/ansible-role-essentials/blob/master/tests/ansible.cfg
• See official docs: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#hash-behaviour

Installation

Using Ansible Galaxy:

ansible-galaxy install aplyca.Essentials

You can add this role as a dependency for other roles, add the role to the meta/main.yml file of your own role:

dependencies:
  - { role: aplyca.Essentials }

Default Installed Packages

• rsync
• lynx
• bash
• curl
• wget
• git
• acl
• ntp

Role Variables

See default variables: https://github.com/Aplyca/ansible-role-essentials/blob/master/defaults/main.yml

Dependencies

None.

Testing

Use Vagrant to test the role:

cd tests;
vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64;
vagrant up;

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

Mauricio Sánchez from Aplyca SAS (http://www.aplyca.com)