bootstrap

The purpose of this role is to prepare your system to be managed by Ansible.

Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/default/playbook.yml:

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  become: true

  roles:
    - robertdebock.bootstrap

  tasks:
    - name: test connection
      ping:

Role Variables

These variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for bootstrap

# The user to use to connect to machines.
bootstrap_user: root

# Installed software to support modules flagged as "preview" (i.e. mysql_db).
# "yes", "no" or unset are valid.
bootstrap_preview: yes

# Do you want to wait for the host to be available?
bootstrap_wait_for_host: no

# The number of retries you want tasks to do before failing.
bootstrap_retries: 10

# To update all packages installed by this roles, set `bootstrap_package_state` to `latest`.
bootstrap_package_state: present

Requirements

• Access to a repository containing packages, likely on the internet.
• A recent version of Ansible. (Tests run on the last 3 release of Ansible.)

The following roles can be installed to ensure all requirements are met, using ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml:

• none

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested against the following distributions and Ansible version:

A single star means the build may fail, it's marked as an experimental build.

Testing

Unit tests are done on every commit and periodically.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

To test this role locally please use Molecule:

pip install molecule
molecule test

To test on Amazon EC2, configure ~/.aws/credentials and export AWS_REGION=eu-central-1 before running molecule test --scenario-name ec2.

There are many specific scenarios available, please have a look in the molecule/ directory.

Run the ansible-galaxy and my lint rules if you want your change to be merges:

ansible-lint -r /path/to/galaxy-lint-rules/rules .
ansible-lint -r /path/to/ansible-lint-rules/rules .

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Robert de Bock robert@meinit.nl