From 60fe49ea3af38d4a7d5e8de1cdb72887b167b22d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gabrielgio Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 22:35:14 +0200 Subject: Moving from jekyll to hugo --- _posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md | 101 ------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 101 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 _posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md (limited to '_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md') diff --git a/_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md b/_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md deleted file mode 100644 index 89934e8..0000000 --- a/_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,101 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "Automating desktop setup with ansible-pull part-1" -date: 2019-03-07 -tags: ['ansible', 'ansible-pull', 'linux', 'fedora'] ---- - -Every time that I do a clean install on my machine it takes a few hours -till I get to point where I was before formatting it, install all -packages, select themes, icons, fonts, install IDEs, extensions and so -on. After doing it a few times I came to the conclusion ( -[genius](https://i.imgur.com/BtWuQgT.png)) that It would be nice to -automate this chore, and as a result, I could tinker a little more with -my system and not be afraid of spending a weekend reinstalling -everything (which have happened more time that I'd likei to remenber) - -So after a few attempts using python or/and bash, I couldn't get something -that scales and ended with many files and keep the files organized and -concise turned out to be more tedious than the setup itself. So it comes -[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/). It is an enterprise-grade software -used to automate tasks. It has many features I can be really helpful as -a sysadmin but what we gonna focus here is cliente side of thing using -[Ansible Pull](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html#ansible-pull) -and -[Playbooks](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks.html) -as better describe: - -> Ansible-Pull is used to up a remote copy of ansible on each managed -> node, each set to run via cron and update playbook source via a source -> repository. This inverts the default push architecture of ansible into -> a pull architecture, which has near-limitless scaling potential. - -> Playbooks are Ansible’s configuration, deployment, and orchestration -> language. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to -> enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process. - -The next step is to pull a playbook from a git account and run on -the host, the playbook will have tasks needed to setup our -machine. - -To run it locally first we need to add localhost to hosts list, to do so we -only the following text added to `/etc/ansible/hosts`: - -{% highlight text %} -[all] -localhost -{% endhighlight %} - -As an experiment we're gonna make tasks to install vim. Currently, I -using -[Fedora](https://getfedora.org/) thus we going to use -[dnf modeule](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/dnf_module.html) -to install packages - -The playbook to install is quite simple: - -{% highlight yml %} -# main.yml -- hosts: all - tasks: - - name: install vim - dnf: - name: vim - state: latest -{% endhighlight %} - -Fist `hosts:` it is required and it has to match our hosts so we are -able to run that playbook. Then `tasks:` which is a list of task that -the playbook will perform that in this case will be `dnf install` for -the vim package. - -Ansible pull requires a repository but for the first example I want to -keep it simple so we will use `ansible-playbook` commando to run -`main.yml` direct from disk, do to so just run the following command: - -{% highlight bash %} -sudo ansible-playbook --connection=local main.yml -{% endhighlight %} - -After a few seconds, vim will be installed on your machine. -{% highlight bash %} -PLAY [all] ************************************************************* - -TASK [Gathering Facts] ************************************************* -ok: [localhost] - -TASK [install vim] ***************************************************** -ok: [localhost] - -PLAY RECAP ************************************************************* -localhost : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 -{% endhighlight %} - -This is the first step, next part we shall create a more complex -playbook and setup repo and actually use `ansible-pull` - - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.3