kksat / ansible_collection.ha_cluster

Ansible collection for deploying and configuring HA clusters based on pacemker.

ondrejhome.ha_cluster collection

Ansible collection for deploying and configuring HA clusters based on pacemker.

This Ansible collection is based on code from following standalone roles:

• (role) ondrejhome.ha-cluster-pacemaker
• (role) ondrejhome.ha-cluster-lvm
• (modules) ondrejhome.pcs-modules-2
• (modules) ondrejhome.crm_wait_for

How to use the roles from this collection

Check the relevant README.md files for given roles that contains both the used parameters as well as example playbooks and inventories.

• ondrejhome.ha_cluster.pacemaker playbook examples
• ondrejhome.ha_cluster.lvm playbook examples

To use this collection from regular ansible

When connected to Internet (online) use command below (dependencies will be installed automatically):

# ansible-galaxy collection install ondrejhome.ha_cluster

When not connected to Internet (offline), first download the tarball of collection and its dependencies. Then install tarballs of dependencies and this collection on system:

# ansible-galaxy collection install ansible-posix-1.5.4.tar.gz
# ansible-galaxy collection install community-general-7.0.1.tar.gz
# ansible-galaxy collection install ondrejhome-ha_cluster-1.0.0.tar.gz

To use this collection from AWX

You can either include content of this collection in your project or make sure that your project contains file collections/requirements.yml that specifies the ondrejhome.ha_cluster collection. Example of collections/requirements.yml:

# cat collections/requirements.yml
---
collections:
- ondrejhome.ha_cluster

How to use the modules from this collection

Check the relevant documentation pages for the modules or use ansible-doc <module_name> from command line to bring up list of supported attributes and examples of use for all modules.

For example to check information on ondrejhome.ha_cluster.pcs_resource:

• from CLI (when collection is installed) - ansible-doc ondrejhome.ha_cluster.pcs_resource
• via browser - check the Contents of this collection and click on pcs_resource module.

Reporting issues

You can report issue via Github Issues page or via email [e-mail]. When reporting issues please include following information in your report:

• your ansible version - ansible --version
• version of installed ondrejhome.ha_cluster collection and its dependencies - ansible-galaxy collection list |grep -E 'ansible.posix|community.general|ondrejhome.ha_cluster'
• (if possible) playbook that triggered error/issue
• expected outcome and observed outcome - for example "playbook failed with error XYZ when I used option ABC", "playbook finished without errors but service XYZ was not enabled", ...

Contributing new functionality to collection

At this moment the contributions are accepted only in the standalone roles below and then once accepted there, they will appear in this collection:

• (role) ondrejhome.ha-cluster-pacemaker Pull requests
• (role) ondrejhome.ha-cluster-lvm Pull requests
• (modules) ondrejhome.pcs-modules-2 Pull requests
• (modules) ondrejhome.crm_wait_for Pull requests

If you would like to contribute something that doesn't make sense for standalone roles and only makes sense for collection, then first open the Issue for collection repository.