Connecting the dots.

[Anthony Chow]

I was at the debops mailing list site and it said it is better to raise on github. Mine is more of a question
I have done:
ansible-galaxy install debops.pki
pip install debops
pip install -upgrade pip
debops-update
debops-init

What should I do next? Do I copy the YAML files into my directory? Is there a script that I can run that ties these 3 directories together
$HOME/./local/share/debops/debops-playbooks/roles
/etc/ansible/roles
$HOME/

Should I be asking this on the mailing list? Thanks so much.

[Maciej Delmanowski]

After installing debops scripts and donwloading the playbooks and roles, you should create a new project directory using debops-init, for example:

debops-init ~/myproject

In this directory you will find files required by Ansible, namely ansible/inventory/hosts. In there you should specify the hosts that you want to manage. After that, running debops command should execute ansible-playbook with the default DebOps playbook. You don't need to copy the playbooks from ~/.local/share/debops/, the script will make sure that they are passed to ansible-playbook by itself.

There's a Getting Started guide which explains in more detail this process, you should check it out.

NB.: you can use either the mailing list (there's a a new one or the GitHub issues to ask the questions. The problem I see with GitHub issues though, is that each role has its own set of issues. Without being a member of the DebOps organization, or subscribing to the role repository itself, you won't get notifications about issues you might care about. So I encourage either to watch the role repositories relevant to you, or send questions to the mailing list where more people can see them.

[Anthony Chow]

Thanks so much. I feel more comfortable asking questions on mailing list than here in GitHub. I was desperate so I ask here. Thanks for the pointers and have a nice weekend.