lkpanganiban / ansible-templates

my ansible template for setting up my dev environment

Ansible Templates

These are Ansible templates for deploying various things in a single node vm.

Usage

1. Use the hosts.yml file as reference when configuring the environment variables of the app.
2. Run ansible-playbook -vi playbooks/provision.yml

Protecting secrets with Ansible Vault

Ansible provides a vault functionality which allows for the following actions:

1. Encryption: ansible-vault encrypt hosts.yml
2. Decrypt: ansible-vault decrypt hosts.yml

Troubleshooting SSH connection

1. Forward your ssh keys. View the following link.

2. Create a .ssh/config file containing the following:

   Host <IP-ADDRESS>
       ForwardAgent yes
   

3. If you are using WSL, run the following commands:

   eval $(ssh-agent) > /dev/null
   ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa >& /dev/null