Ansible playbooks

This repository contains a collection of Ansible playbooks for my needs.

TL;DR

Prerequisites

Control machine

• Python 3 (≥3.8)
• Ansible (≥2.10)

Target hosts

• Python 3 installed (Ansible’s default connector uses /usr/bin/python3)
• SSH access

Installation

The instructions to install Ansible under Ubuntu can be found here.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt install ansible

For macOS it can be installed via brew

brew install ansible

Clone the repo

https://github.com/krahlos/ansible.krahlos.git
cd ansible.krahlos

Review inventory/hosts.ini

By default it contains

[all]
localhost ansible_connection=local

To target remote servers replaye localhost with their hostnames or IPs.

Validate the playbook

Before touching or destroying anything check the syntax

ansible-playbook site.yml --syntax-check

And because we are a little paranoid we do a dry-run

ansible-playbook site.yml --check --diff

Run the playbook

Once we are happy with the outcome of the previous step we can run the playbook

ansible-playbook site.yml

Sources

• Installing and using Pre-commit with Ansible-lint