Ansible Role: Customize VMs

Does very basic customization to VMs to prepare them for workload.

• Installs some basic APT packages
• Grows the root filesystem to fill the virtual disk

Requirements

Ubuntu 18.x + VMs.

Role Variables

This role looks for the skip_vm_check variable which is set by jedimt.deploy_vms.

Dependencies

This role expects to run right after the jedimt.deploy_vms role.

Example Playbook

# ===========================================================================
# Customize VMs
# ===========================================================================
- name: Customize deployed VMs
  hosts: servers
  gather_facts: false
  tags: play_customize_vms

  vars_files:
    # Ansible vault with all required passwords
    - "../../credentials.yml"

  roles:
    # If passwordless SSH not set up, use ansible_password to authenticate
    - { role: jedimt.customize_vms,
        ansible_password: "{{ vault_ansible_password }}"
    }

License

MIT

Author Information

Aaron Patten aaronpatten@gmail.com