Keepalived

An Ansible role that installs, configures and manages keepalived for EL 8.

This role will clone the keepalived source code from github.com, and installs the application from source.

Configuration

Set version to install with:

keepalived_version: v2.2.7

Config file:

keepalived_config: /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf

Since the application is installed from source, the git repository is cloned to the following directory:

keepalived_checkout_path: /var/lib/keepalived/

Set notification emails with:

keepalived_global_defs:
  notification_email: []
  # - [email protected]
  # - [email protected]
  # - [email protected]
  notification_email_from: ""
  smtp_server: ""
  smtp_connect_timeout: 10

Interface to attach to:

keepalived_interface: eth0
keepalived_system_ip: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4.address }}"

If you want to specify a certain script:

keepalived_script:
  name: something
  script: /usr/bin/pgrep service-name
  interval: 2

Set the roles and IP's:

keepalived_role: MASTER  # or BACKUP
keepalived_vip: 10.0.0.5

Requirements

Given all this, the minimum requirements are:

• At least 2 hosts in play
• Connection to the release file: https://github.com/acassen/keepalived.git