Common

An ansible role to manage miscellaneous types of data/resources/constructs in an ad-hoc fashion.

Current manageable resources

• Users
• Groups
• Cron jobs
• Packages
• Files
• Remote files (URL fetching)
• Lines in files
• sudo configurations
• Package repositories (Yum at the moment, more to come!)
• Postgres databases, users, extensions, languages

Requirements

Ansible >= 2.0.0

Variables

Name	Default Value	Description
common_users	not_defined	A dictionary of misc users to manage (supports all params presented by the user module)
common_groups	not_defined	A dictionary of misc groups to manage (supports all params presented by the group module)
common_cron_jobs	not_defined	A dictionary of misc cron jobs to manage (supports all params presented by the cron module)
common_packages	not defined	A list of misc packages to install
common_pips	not defined	A list of misc Python packages to install via pip
common_files	not_defined	A dictionary of misc files to manage (supports all params presented by the file module)
common_fetch_files	not_defined	A dictionary of misc remote files to fetch from from urls (supports all params presented by the get_url module)
common_file_lines	not_defined	A dictionary of file lines to manage (supports all params presented by the lineinfile module)
common_sudoer_configs	not_defined	A dictionary of misc sudoers rules to manage
common_yumrepos	not_defined	A dictionary of Yum repositories to manage
common_postgres_dbs	not_defined	A dictionary of Postres databases to manage (supports all params presented by the postgresql_db module)
common_postgres_users	not_defined	A dictionary of Postres users to manage (supports all params presented by the postgresql_users module)
common_postgres_extensions	not_defined	A dictionary of Postres extensions to manage (supports all params presented by the postgresql_ext module)
common_postgres_langs	not_defined	A dictionary of Postres procedural languages to manage (supports all params presented by the postgresql_lang module)

Example definitions

You can define any data/resources/constructs at any level you wish (host_vars,group_vars playbook vars, a vars file, in a role that depends on this role, etc.)

Users

common_users:
  some_user:
    group: mygroup
    generate_ssh_key: true
    ssh_key_comment: "This is an example user's keypair"
  some_other_user: {}

Groups

common_groups:
  mygroup: {}
  my_other_group:
    gid: 9001
    system: true

Cron jobs

common_cron_jobs:
  'check dirs':
    minute: 0
    hour: '5,2'
    job: 'ls -alh > /dev/null'
    state: absent
  'some old job':
    state: absent
  'a job to run at reboot':
    special_time: reboot
    job: '/path/to/some_scrupt.sh'
    state: absent
  'a job with a cron file':
    job: 'uptime &> /dev/null'
    cron_file: cron_example
    state: absent

Packages

common_packages:
  - mg
  - golang

Python Packages (via pip)

common_pips:
  - ansible
  - Jinja2

Files

common_files:
  /tmp/myfile:
    owner: some_user
    group: some_user
    mode: 0644
    src: /tmp/my_example_file
  /tmp/my_other_file:
    owner: some_user
    group: some_user
    mode: 0644
    content: >-
      These contents will be inserted into
      /tmp/my_other_file.

Remote files (URL fetching)

common_fetch_files:
  git_fat:
    url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jedbrown/git-fat/master/git-fat'
    dest: '/usr/bin/git-fat'
    mode: 755 # (cannot use explicit mode here)
    owner: root
    group: root

Lines in files

common_file_lines:
  /etc/hosts:
    regexp: '^127\.0\.0\.1'
    line: '127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4'
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: 0644
  /etc/sudoers:
    state: absent
    regexp: "^%wheel"

sudo configurations

common_sudoer_configs:
  hubot_multi_sudo_rules:
    content:
      - 'hubot ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl restart hubot-*'
      - 'hubot ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl start hubot-*'
      - 'hubot ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl status hubot-*'
      - 'hubot ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl stop" hubot-*'
  hubot_just_date_cmd:
    content:
      - 'hubot ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /bin/date'

Package repositories (more to come!)

# Deploy Yum repositories
common_yumrepos:
  RethinkDB:
    descr: RethinkDB
    baseurl: 'http://download.rethinkdb.com/centos/6/x86_64'
    gpgcheck: 0
    enabled: 1

Postgres databases

common_postgres_dbs:
  example_db:
    login_password: 5uP3r5ecr37
    owner: some_user
    template: example_template0

Postgres users

common_postgres_users:
  example_user:
    db: some_test_db
    encrypted: true
    login_password: 5uP3r5ecr37

Postgres extensions

common_postgres_extensions:
  example_extension:
    db: some_example_db

Postgres languages

common_postgres_lang:
  example_lang:
    cascade: true
    db: example_db

License

MIT

Author Information

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Created by Calum MacRae

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