Ansible Role: Create Nebulon nPod

Creates a Nebulon nPod cluster. More information on using this role can be found in the Nebulon Ansible tutorial.

Requirements

• Ansible 3.0 (Ansible Core 2.10) or later
• Nebulon nebulon.nebulon_on Ansible module 1.4.0
• Nebulon smartInfrastructure servers with the Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU) installed
• Internet connectivity to Nebulon ON UCAPI GraphQL endpoint
• Nebulon Python SDK (nebpyclient) 2.0.8

Role Variables

There are Nebulon SPU default variables in the defaults/main.yml file.

# Vault protected credentials. This assumes an Ansible Vault with the vault_neb_username
# and vault_neb_password variables are defined and passed to the role.
neb_username: "{{ vault_neb_username }}"
neb_password: "{{ vault_neb_password }}"

# Specify a name for the nPod to be created
npod_name: "Default nPod"

# Specify the nebulon ON template to use for creating the nPod
npod_template: "K8s Local"

# Specify the nebulon ON nPod group to build the nPod in.
npod_group: Kubernetes

# Time zone for nPod
timezone: "US/Pacific"

# Note to set for the nPod.
npod_note: "Created by Ansible playbook"

# Setting this to "present" creates the nPod.
npod_state: present

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

# ===========================================================================
# Create Nebulon nPod
# ===========================================================================
- name: Create Nebulon nPod
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false
  tags: play_create_npod

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

  roles:
    - { role: jedimt.nebulon_create_npod, npod_name: "K8s_Lenovo" }

License

MIT

Author Information

Aaron Patten aaronpatten@gmail.com