Ansible Role: cockpit

A role to install cockpit on a machine.

Requirements

For the installation of the 45Drives component git and rsync are needed.

Role Variables

cockpit_main_package: cockpit
cockpit_storage_package: cockpit-storaged
cockpit_podman_package: cockpit-podman
cockpit_machines_package: cockpit-machines
cockpit_service: cockpit.socket

cockpit_zfs_manager_repo: https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-zfs-manager.git

Self-explanatory variables defined in (vars/main.yml)[vars/main.yml].

cockpit_storage_enabled: true
cockpit_podman_enabled: false
cockpit_machines_enabled: false
cockpit_zfs_enabled: false

Cockpit packages to be installed.

cockpit_ipa_cert: false

Whether to attempt to get TLS certificate from IPA server or not.

cockpit_override_systemd: false
cockpit_override_src: cockpit-default-override.socket.j2

This parameters are used to override the system provided systemd unit (for example to listen only on one interface). The provided template is empty: to actually override the unit you need to bring your own template.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: all
  vars:
    cockpit_storage_enabled: true
    cockpit_podman_enabled: false
    cockpit_machines_enabled: true
    cockpit_zfs_enabled: true
    cockpit_override_src: my_custom_systemd_override.j2
    override_param_1: my_value
  tasks:
    - name: Include cockpit.
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: alecunsolo.cockpit

License

MIT

Notes

Testing with molecule is stolen from heavily inspired by Jeff Geerling. Watch his video (and the other ones as well).