- All plays are designed to be run from the user ansible
- All plays assume remote machine has been configured to be managed by ansible
- there is a play to configure a machine for this:
init_0_config_ansible.yaml
- there is a play to configure a machine for this:
- For ansible to configure machines without having to enter rsa passphrase or the root password the following must happen:
- Load the ansible private rsa key into an ssh agent:
ssh-agent bashssh-add <location of private rsa key- ex:
ssh-add user_vars/user_keys/ansible/ansible/ansible
- ex:
- Ansible needs to know root password for privledge escalation, so each time you run a play you can do the following, which prevents storing the root password in plain text.
--ask-pass <root password>- ex:
ansible-playbook -i hosts/test-inventory full_system_configuration.yaml --ask-pass
- ex:
- Load the ansible private rsa key into an ssh agent:
- This playbook is configured to be run from the directory this readme is located.
ansible -i hosts/test-inventory all -m debug -a 'var=group_names'- Prints each host and what groups they are in
ansible -i hosts/test-inventory localhost -m debug -a 'var=groups'- Prints members of each group
- append the following to plays to see what will be run
--list-tasks--list-hosts