Description

Playbooks for Fedora, CentOS and KDE Neon.

Notice

1. Create a custom inventory file or use the default.
2. Variables are defined in play.yml, read the playbook role to fullfil them as needed.
3. The playbook doesn't contain any remote user information for security purposes. This is provided at runtime, see Execution

Execution

The workflow proposed is to provide the remote Ansible user and that SSH and become password are different. Therefore Ansible will ask for these information at playbook's runtime.

The flags needed to acomplish this are the following:

• -K: Ask sudo user password
• -k: Ask SSH user password
• -i: Custom inventory
• -u: Remote user

Also, play.yml has the target variable, this allow us to pass targets on runtime instead of having to modify play.yml.

This is achieved using --extra-vars flag, in the example below the target is wave0 (servers section in the inventory file

ansible-playbook -Kki inventory -u root play.yml --extra-vars "target=prod"

notice -u flag is only needed when the user on the targets is different from the user that is executing the playbook.

Also, tags are used to make playbooks flexible enough to execute or omit specific tasks in the playbook's role.

• --tags: Only executes a given task or tasks(separated by comma) from a role
• --skip-tags: Skips a given task or tasks(separated by comma) from a role

eg:

From the common role, run only the task with tag updateOS, which will update all targets on the inventory file

ansible-playbook -Kki inventory -u root play.yml --extra-vars "target=all" --tags "updateOS"

From the common role, run everything except the task with tag flathub, which will be executed for the servers under qa category.

ansible-playbook -Kki inventory -u root play.yml --extra-vars "target=qa" --skip-tags "flathub"

Roles

Below you will find information about current roles and what they do

Fedora

• common
  • Setup RPM Fusion
  • Installs multimedia packages
  • Installs some system utilities
  • Setup flathub repository
  • Full system update
• development
  • Installs KDevelop
  • Installs virtualization group packages
  • Starts virtualization service
  • Append a given user to libvirt group
• docker
  • Removes previous docker versions
  • Adds docker repository
  • Installs docker-ce
  • Install docker-compose
  • Append a given user to the docker group
• plasma
  • Removes unneeded? packages
  • Install redshift applet for Plasma desktop
• upgrade (EXPERIMENTAL)
  • Upgrade Fedora releases, eg: 28 --> 29, 29 --> 30, etc
• ftp
  • An FTP server that works only for local accounts

CentOS

WIP

• moodle
• virtHost

KDE Neon

Setups the requirements needed to develop for KDE using KDE Neon