This repo contains configuration files and scripts for setting up my SmartOS home server. There are configuration files for the global zone as well as the various containers/zones and VMs that run on it. I'm in the process of migrating the configuration of the zones to Ansible.
The main zpool is named zones. This is the default SmartOS pool name. Home
directories live under /zones/home. Shared files live under /zones/shares.
These datasets are mapped into some zones using lofs. The goal is for most
zones zones to be disposable and for persistent data to live in either in the
home directories or the shares. The notable exception to this is the PostgreSQL
zone.
The delegated data set feature of zones is not used as the delegated datasets are deleted when the zone is deleted.
Each container is defined with a .json file. These are not used by Ansible
currently. They have to be used with vmadm create -f to create the containers.
Ansible will then configure them.
Note that starting the base-64-lts image starting with version 23.4.0 does not have Python
installed by default. So you will probably get this error:
/opt/local/bin/python3: not found
To fix, zlogin into the zone and install Python:
pkgin up
pkgin fug
pkgin se python3
pkgin in python312First, install Ansible. For Ubuntu 20.04, this looks roughly like:
sudo apt install ansibleor
sudo apt install pip3
pip3 install --user ansibleOr on macOS:
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install --user ansibleNOTE: on macOS, make sure $HOME/Library/Python/3.x/bin is on the PATH.
NOTE: Ansible does not support Windows.
Once installed, the playbook can be run:
ansible-playbook playbook.ymlThere are a variety of command line options
for ansible-playbook.
You can limit which hosts to interact with using the -l arg:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -l fsYou can set how many hosts are updated at once using the -f arg:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -f 10