Ansible Role: serdigital64.system.sys_tools

Purpose

Manage basic OS tools provisioning.

Supported features in the current version:

  • Deploy tools:
    • file
    • gawk
    • grep
    • groff
    • less
    • lsof
    • sed

The sys_tools Ansible-Role is part of the A:Platform64 project and is available in the system Ansible-Collection.

Usage

The following example is an Ansible Playbook that includes all the supported features:

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---
- name: "System / Tools / Usage example"
  hosts: "localhost"
  gather_facts: true

  tasks:
    - name: "Example: Install OS tools"
      vars:
        sys_tools:
          resolve_prereq: true
          deploy: true
        sys_tools_catalog:
          file: true
          groff: true
          less: true
          sed: true
          gawk: true
          grep: true
          lsof: true
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: "serdigital64.system.sys_tools"
...

The playbook can be run by executing:

# Set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS to the default install location. Change as needed.
ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS="${HOME}/.ansible/collections"
ansible-playbook "${ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS}/ansible_collections/serdigital64/system/playbooks/sys_tools.yml"

Role Parameters

Actions

  • Use action-parameters to control what tasks are enabled for the role to execute.
  • Parameters should be declared as task level vars as they are intented to be dynamic.
sys_tools:
  resolve_prereq:
  deploy:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
sys_tools.resolve_prereq no boolean false Enable automatic resolution of prequisites
sys_tools.deploy no boolean false Enable installation of application packages

End State

  • Use end-state parameters to define the target state after role execution.
  • Parameters should be declared in host_vars or group_vars as they are intended to be permanent.
sys_tools_catalog:
  file:
  gawk:
  grep:
  groff:
  less:
  lsof:
  sed:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
sys_tools_catalog no dictionary Define available tools
sys_tools_catalog.file no boolean false Install the tool?
sys_tools_catalog.gawk no boolean false Install the tool?
sys_tools_catalog.grep no boolean false Install the tool?
sys_tools_catalog.groff no boolean false Install the tool?
sys_tools_catalog.less no boolean false Install the tool?
sys_tools_catalog.lsof no boolean false Install the tool?
sys_tools_catalog.sed no boolean false Install the tool?

Deployment

OS Compatibility

The operating system compatibility list is defined in the variable: sys_tools_platforms

Dependencies

  • Ansible Collections:
    • serdigital64.backup
      • bkp_archive
    • serdigital64.system
      • sys_package
      • sys_repository

Prerequisites

The Ansible engine must be already installed and configured for privileged access and remote execution.

In addition the following prerequisites can be automatically solved when running the playbook by setting the role action: resolve_prereq: true

  • Package manager for the target application is installed and enabled.

Installation Procedure

Manually install Ansible Collections from the Ansible Galaxy repository:

ansible-galaxy collection install --upgrade serdigital64.system

Automatic installation is also available by deploying A:Platform64

Contributing

Help on implementing new features and maintaining the code base is welcomed.

Please see the guidelines for further details.

Author

License

Apache-2.0