Ansible Role: openwrt_buildroot

Ansible role to generate OpenWrt firmware images with OpenWrt Buildroot.

Requirements

Install Ansible requirements:

pip3 install ansible
pip3 install jinja2-ansible-filters

To use the ansible commands ansible-playbook, ansible-galaxy Add the ~/.local/bin path to your .bashrc or .bash_profile

echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Install this role

git clone https://gitlab.com/a-gave/ansible_openwrt_buildroot.git ~/.ansible/roles/libremesh.openwrt_buildroot

Dependencies

A list of other roles hosted on Galaxy should go here, plus any details in regards to parameters that may need to be set for other roles, or variables that are used from other roles.

Choose a working directory

Create inventory

Define the host that will run the commands in hosts file

Example:

# hosts
yucca:
  ansible_host: 10.170.55.44
  ansible_user: antennine
  ansible_become_pass: "ciao"
  ansible_become_user: root
  ansible_become_method: su
  ansible_become_flags:

If you intend to build on localhost creating a specific user e.g openwrt Uncomment the configuration to tell ansible to ask for password in ansible.cfg

# ansible.cfg
[defaults]
callbacks_enabled = profile_tasks
ask_pass = True

[ssh_connection]
scp_if_ssh=True

Example Playbook

Create a playbook file build_openwrt.yml

# playbook.yml
- name: Build OpenWrt
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    build_targets: 
      - openwrt_target: ath79
        openwrt_subtarget: generic
      - openwrt_target: x86
        openwrt_subtarget: 64

  tasks: 
    - name: Build OpenWrt - Loops targets.
      include_role: 
        name: libremesh.openwrt_buildroot 
      vars:
        openwrt_target: "{{ item.openwrt_target }}"
        openwrt_subtarget: "{{ item.openwrt_subtarget }}"
        openwrt_devices: "{{ item.openwrt_devices }}"
      loop: "{{ build_targets }}"

Build OpenWrt

Run the playbook passing the inventory file as parameter

ansible-playbook -i hosts build_openwrt.yml

Role Variables

A description of the settable variables for this role should go here, including any variables that are in defaults/main.yml, vars/main.yml, and any variables that can/should be set via parameters to the role. Any variables that are read from other roles and/or the global scope (ie. hostvars, group vars, etc.) should be mentioned here as well.