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Role: consul

consul role is created for deploy consul solution for postgres HA

Copyright (C) 2023 Mikhail Shurutov

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Requirements

This role requires python v3 because python v2 is out of live.

Role Variables

System variables

consul_templates_dir is directory for role templates; consul_vars_dir is directory for define role variables; consul_config_dir is directory for configs; consul_data_dir is directory for data; consul_service_name is consul service name.

Package variables

consul_{{ ansible_package_manager }}_packages is list of necessary packages;

Configuration variables

consul_http_client_port is port for client connections; consul_params_default: by default there are defined "datacenter", "data_dir", "domain", "server".

Using a Role

Variables Used

• ANSIBLE_ROOT_DIR is path for static content: roles,configs,etc, for example: /data/ansible
• ANSIBLE_ROOT_ROLE_DIR is path in roles_path config variable, for example: /data/ansible/roles
  Content of my ~/.ansible.cfg:

...
# additional paths to search for roles in, colon separated
#roles_path    = /etc/ansible/roles
roles_path    = /data/ansible/roles
...

Install role

GIT repo

user@host ~ $ cd $ANSIBLE_ROOT_ROLE_DIR
user@host roles $ git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/consul-role/code consul

Ansible galaxy

Installation from command

user@host ~ $ cd $ANSIBLE_ROOT_DIR
user@host ansible $ ansible-galaxy role install mshurutov.consul -p roles

Installation from requirements.yml

user@host ~ $ cd $ANSIBLE_ROOT_DIR
user@host ansible $ grep consul requirements.yml
- name: mshurutov.consul
user@host ansible $ ansible-galaxy role install -r requirements.yml -p roles

Example Playbook

Role installed as git repo

...
- hosts: consul_group
  roles:
     - role: consul
...

Role installed by ansible-galaxy

...
- hosts: consul_group
  roles:
     - role: mshurutov.consul
...

Dependencies

License

GPLv2

Author Information

My name is Mikhail Shurutov, I'm an operations engineer since 1997.