Ansible Role: preconf

This role supposed to execute first and it checks that all packages are updated and make some adjustments to sysctl.

Requirements

Supported operating systems: see https://github.com/andyceo/ansible-role-preconf/blob/master/meta/main.yml#L12

Configuration

Configuration can be made with one variable: preconf, that should be a dictionary. All configuration is organized in sections, which usualy maps to tags. For example, preconf.apt_keys section store apt keys and them can be executed with tag preconf-apt-keys.

Tags:

• preconf-apt-packages-remove: remove or purge packages (use preconf.packages_remove configuration variable)
• preconf-apt-keys: only add/remove keys to/from apt keyring (use preconf.apt_keys configuration variable)
• preconf-apt-repositories: only add/remove repositories to/from apt (use preconf.repositories configuration variable)
• preconf-apt-packages: only install package sets declared in preconf.package_sets_install configuration variable. The package sets itself are declared in preconf.package_sets configuration variable.
• preconf-apt: process all apt-related tags: preconf-apt-packages-remove, preconf-apt-keys, preconf-apt-repositories, preconf-apt-packages
• preconf-grub: update Grub2 settings (for now it just set GRUB_TIMEOUT and GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT to 2 only and explicitly)
• preconf-sysctl: managing sysctl entries
• preconf-crons: create/update/delete crons
• preconf-hostname: only change node's hostname and /etc/hosts file respectively.
• preconf-systemd: run systemd-related tasks
• preconf-systemd-services: set up systemd services with defined params
• preconf-lid: disable lid switch handling (usefull for notebooks that functioning as a server)