ddcr / ansible-role-cenapad-ldap

Development and testing of Ansible role to install LDAP server

This is a development project to install and configure an LDAP server on a CentOS 7 server. We need to open the same user cluster accounts in other standalone computing servers, so it is important to centralize user/projects information.

I started by testing this role during development by using a homegrown shell script (manual-testing-env.bash), that creates a docker container, and then by executing the playbook SetupCENAPAD-LDAP.yml. I found out later that a more elegant way of doing this is using the molecule tool.

It seems that the combination ansible (installed by rpm) and molecule (installed via pip3 install --user) does not work. This seems to be related to a packaging "bug" (see https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule/issues/2173).

There are two temporary solutions:

• remove the flag -s from the header of /usr/bin/ansible (#!/usr/bin/python3 -s)
• remove the ansible rpm and install molecule (pip3 install molecule[docker]) inside a python virtualenv (eg. anaconda virtualenv). Ansible will be installed as a dependency.

I give preference to the second option