Ansible Role: serial-console

Ansible role that configures grub to provide a tty on the serial interface (ttyS0) for Debian, RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu.

Supported Operating Systems

All GNU/Linux distros that implement GRUB2 should work, but only those that are still officially supported will be supported by this role

• RHEL/CentOS 7
• Debian 7/8
• Debian 9 (current debian 'testing' release)
• Ubuntu 12.04+ (untested)

Requirements

• Ansible 2.1+

Role Variables

See ./defaults/main.yml for configurable variables and their defaults

Example playbook

---
- name: Example play
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - { serial-console }

Example playbook (with some optional vars set)

---
- name: Example play with optional vars set
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - { serial-console,
        serial_console_show_grub_menu: no
      }

Add as a submodule to your playbook repo

git submodule add https://github.com/bramford/ansible-role-serial-console.git roles/serial-console