feat: Add missing blog post

Add the missing blog post from my hugo blog. Also add a locustfile so I
can do some stress test locally.

1 files changed, 94 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/content/posts/2019-03-07Automating_desktop_setup_with_ansible-pull_part-1.html b/content/posts/2019-03-07Automating_desktop_setup_with_ansible-pull_part-1.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d06a648
--- /dev/null
+++ b/content/posts/2019-03-07Automating_desktop_setup_with_ansible-pull_part-1.html
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+<section>
+  <p>
+    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 that I would save time by spending time
+    automating this chore, and as a result, I could tinker a little more with my
+    system and not worry about spending a weekend re-installing everything (which
+    have happened more time that I'd like to remember).
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    So after a few attempts using python and bash I ended with many files and
+    keep everything organized and concise turned out to be more tedious than the
+    setup itself. So there comes <a href="https://www.ansible.com/">Ansible</a>.
+    It is an enterprise-graded software used to automate tasks. It has A LOT OF
+    features and it can be really helpful if you're a sysadmin but for now we're
+    going to focuson
+    <a href="https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html#ansible-pull">
+      Ansible Pull
+    </a>
+    and
+    <a href="https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks.html">
+      Playbooks
+    </a>. As better described:
+    <blockquote>
+      [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.
+      (<a href="https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.html">source</a>)
+    </blockquote>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    The goal is to pull and run a playbook remotely using a git repository. The
+    playbook will describe the tasks needed to setup our machine from scratch.
+    <br/>
+    But first lets tinker a bit a with playbooks locally with ansible-playbook,
+    to do so we need to add localhost to ansible's hosts list. Add it to
+    /etc/ansible/hosts:
+<pre><code>[all]
+localhost</code></pre>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    As an experiment we're going to write a asks to install vim. Currently, I'm
+    using Fedora thus we going to use dnf modeule to install packages, but if
+    you're using another distribution look for a equivalent module like apt
+    module for Ubuntu.
+
+    The playbook to install is quite simple:
+
+<pre><code># main.yaml
+- hosts: all
+  tasks:
+     - name: install vim
+       dnf:
+         name: vim
+         state: latest</code></pre>
+    <dl>
+        <dt>host</dt>
+        <dd>it is required and it has to match our hosts otherwise the playbook won't run.</dd>
+        <dt>taks</dt>
+        <dd>
+          it is the list of tasks that the playbook will perform, in this case
+          will be dnf install vim.
+        </dd>
+    </dl>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    To run a playbook use the command ansible-playbook commando to run main.yml
+    direct from disk, do to so just run the following command:
+<pre><code>sudo ansible-playbook --connection=local main.yml</code></pre>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    After a few seconds, vim will be installed on your machine.
+<pre><code>PLAY [all] *************************************************************
+
+TASK [Gathering Facts] *************************************************
+ok: [localhost]
+
+TASK [install vim] *****************************************************
+ok: [localhost]
+
+PLAY RECAP *************************************************************
+localhost                  : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0</code></pre>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    This is the first step, next part we shall create a more complex playbook and
+    setup repository to run it remotely using ansible-pull.
+  </p>
+</section>