Ansible playbook to run XWCTk installation

Purpose

Ansible playbook to provision remote hosts for XWCTk and then install the XWCTk & ESCapps repos.

Ansible does not need to be installed on the remote hosts, just on the control node running the playbook (see requirements.txt). A list of the remote hosts on which to run and the corresponding usernames is provided in inventory.yml. The playbook is run on a control node and ansible connects to each remote host and executes the tasks in the playbook.

How to run

• Create a python environment and install the dependencies in requirements.txt
• Update inventory.yml with the target remote host and the corresponding username
• Run the playbook with

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml playbook.yml -K

The -K means that you will be prompted for the user's sudo password needed to run some of the tasks.

TODO

• Spin out the .conf files into their own repository
• Add GitHub Action to periodically run playbook and test