Diesel-Net / fleet

:military_helmet: New host check-in. Recruits new hosts for docker swarm fleet.

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Leveraging Docker Engine's built-in Swarm Mode on Ubuntu Server LTS Virtual Machines. This is the first piece of code that should be executed against a fresh host on the diesel.net domain

Checking-In New Hosts

To add a new host (or set of hosts) create a new local branch name with the pattern check-in/*, add the new hosts and their configuration to the inventory, then push. Please delete your check-in/* branch after merging.

Bootstrapping Hosts

Pushes to stable branches will trigger the entire fleet to be bootstrapped.

Updating Hosts

You will need the following installed:

Python 3.11+

1. Create a Python Virtual Environment (venv) and activate it.

   python3 -m venv venv

   source venv/bin/activate

2. Install Ansible.

   pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel pip-tools

   pip install ansible==7.2.0

3. Install Ansible roles.

   ansible-galaxy install --force --role-file .ansible/roles/check-in_requirements.yaml --roles-path .ansible/roles

4. Update all the Ubuntu hosts's Apt packages and reboot if necessary.

   ansible-playbook --inventory .ansible/inventories/dev  --inventory .ansible/inventories/prod --extra-vars auto_reboot=yes .ansible/update.yaml