$ROLE for Ansible

A role for deploying and configuring $ROLE and extensions on unix hosts using Ansible.

It can additionally be used as a playbook for quickly provisioning hosts.

Vagrant machines are provided to produce a boxed install of $ROLE or a VM for integration testing.

Supports

Supported $ROLE versions:

• $ROLE 1.0
• ...

Supported targets:

• Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin"
• ...

Installation methods:

• Binary packages from the official repositories at $application
• Official sources from $application

Available extensions (under a switch):

• Extension - $role_extension
• ...

Callable tasks:

• task: ...

Usage

Clone this repo into your roles directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/$user/ansible-$role.git roles/$role

And add it to your play's roles:

- hosts: ...
  roles:
    - $role
    - ...

This roles comes preloaded with almost every available default. You can override each one in your hosts/group vars, in your inventory, or in your play. See the annotated defaults in defaults/main.yml for help in configuration. All provided variables start with $role_.

You can also use the role as a playbook. You will be asked which hosts to provision, and you can further configure the play by using --extra-vars.

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory --extra-vars='{...}' main.yml

To provision a standalone $ROLE box, start the boxed VM, which is a Ubuntu 12.04 box:

$ vagrant up boxed

You will find $ROLE listening on the VM's $port port on address 192.168.33.20 in the private network. You can then connect to it as any user. Please note that this is highly insecure, so if you're going to publish this VM you'll want to provide actual authentication.

Run the tests by provisioning the appropriate VM:

$ vagrant up test-ubuntu-precise

At the moment, ubuntu-precise is the only test VM available.

Still to do

• Write the role itself, for one

Changelog

0.1

Initial version.