myos/ansible/roles/hosts

hosts role for Ansible

Bootstrap hosts, installing standard packages and user settings

Role Variables

• hosts_cloudinit_config - cloud-init yaml config

hosts_cloudinit_config:
    preserve_hostname: false
    datasource_list:
    - Ec2
    datasource:
      Ec2:
        metadata_urls:
        - 'http://169.254.169.254'

• hosts_cloudinit_enable - Install and configure cloud-init

hosts_cloudinit_enable: false

• hosts_git_repositories - Clone git repositories

hosts_git_repositories:
- { "repo": "https://github.com/aynicos/myos", "dest": "/dns/com/github/aynicos/myos", "key_file": "~/.ssh/id_rsa", "version": "master" }

• hosts_packages - List of packages to install/remove on your hosts, should be overrided for a specific distro

hosts_packages: []

• hosts_packages_common - List of packages to install/remove on your hosts, common to all distros

hosts_packages_common:
- { "name": "bash", "state": "present" }

• hosts_packages_distro - List of packages to install/remove on your hosts, specific to a distro

hosts_packages_distro:
- { "name": "vim-nox", "state": "present" }

• hosts_services - List of services to enable/disable on your hosts

hosts_services:
# Enable ansible, running ansible pull at boot
  - { "name": "ansible", "state": "started", "enabled": "yes" }
# Enable zram, creating virtual swap devices compressed in RAM, usefull on hosts without physical swap to increase performances
  - { "name": "zram", "state": "started", "enabled": "yes" }

• hosts_ssh_authorized_keys - List of urls to add ssh public keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

hosts_ssh_authorized_keys:
- https://github.com/aynicos.keys

• hosts_ssh_bastion_hostname - Hostname of ssh bastion added in ~/.ssh/myos/config

hosts_ssh_bastion_hostname: 8.4.2.1

• hosts_ssh_bastion_username - Username of ssh bastion added in ~/.ssh/myos/config

hosts_ssh_bastion_username: root

• hosts_ssh_private_ip_range - Ip range proxified through ssh bastion to add in ~/.ssh/myos/config

hosts_ssh_private_ip_range: 10.* 192.168.42.*

• hosts_ssh_private_keys - List of ssh private keys to copy, default to ~/.ssh/id_rsa

hosts_ssh_private_keys:
- ~/.ssh/id_rsa

• hosts_ssh_public_hosts - List of host names to add ssh public fingerprints in ~/.ssh/known_hosts

hosts_ssh_public_hosts:
- github.com
- gitlab.com

• hosts_ssh_username - User to ssh on remote hosts

hosts_ssh_username: root

• hosts_update - Update hosts every day

hosts_update: false

• hosts_user_env - List of environment variables to add in file ~/.myos

hosts_user_env:
  - ENV
  - DOCKER

• hosts_user_rc_enable - Call specific functions on user login, allowing it to customize his session

hosts_user_rc_enable: false

• hosts_user_rc_functions - List of specific functions to call on user login, defined in /etc/profile.d/rc_functions.sh

hosts_user_rc_functions:
# customize PROMPT variable
- { "path": "10_prompt_set", "state": "touch" }
# customize PS1 variable
- { "path": "10_ps1_set", "state": "touch" }
# create and/or attach a tmux session
- { "path": "20_tmux_attach", "state": "touch" }
# display host infos
- { "path": "30_pfetch", "state": "touch" }
# create and/or attach a screen session
- { "path": "30_screen_attach", "state": "touch" }
# launch ssh agent and load private keys in ~/.ssh
- { "path": "40_ssh_add", "state": "touch" }
# remove tmux_attach
- { "path": "20_tmux_attach", "state": "absent" }

Example playbook

- hosts: 'hosts'
  roles:
  - role: 'aynicos.hosts'
    hosts_services:
    - { "name": "local", "state": "started", "enabled": "yes" }
    - { "name": "zram", "state": "started", "enabled": "yes" }
    hosts_user_rc_enable: true

Tests

To test this role on your hosts, run the tests/playbook.yml playbook.

$ ansible-playbook tests/playbook.yml