Ansible

Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, etc will come here. Documentation to come soon.

Each playbook should have comments or a name descripter that explains what the playbook does or how it is used. If not available, README-... files can be used in place.

Management Node Structure

Loosely copied from the CentOS ansible infrastructure. This structure is represented in this repository.

.
├── ansible.cfg
├── files -> playbooks/files
├── handlers -> playbooks/handlers
├── inventory
├── pkistore
├── playbooks
│   ├── files
│   ├── group_vars
│   ├── host_vars
│   ├── handlers
│   ├── tasks
│   ├── templates
│   ├── vars
│   └── requirements.yml
├── roles
│   └── <role-name>
├── tasks -> playbooks/tasks
├── templates -> playbooks/templates
└── vars -> playbooks/vars

Structure

What each folder represents

files      -> As the name implies, non-templated files go here
group_vars -> Group Variables go here if they are not fulfilled in an inventory
host_vars  -> Host variables go here
inventory  -> All static inventories go here
roles      -> Custom roles can go here
tasks      -> Common tasks come here
templates  -> Templates go here
vars       -> Global variables that are called with vars_files go here. This

Current Playbook Naming

init-* -> Starting infrastructure playbooks that run solo or import other
          playbooks that start with import-
import -> Playbooks that should be imported from the top level playbooks
role-* -> These playbooks call roles specifically for infrastructure tasks.
          Playbooks that do not call a role should be named init or adhoc based
          on their usage.
adhoc  -> These playbooks are one-off playbooks that can be used on the CLI or
          in AWX

Designing Playbooks

Pre flight and post flight

At a minimum, there should be pre_tasks and post_tasks that can judge whether ansible has been can or has been run on a system. Some playbooks will not necessarily need this (eg if you're running an adhoc playbook to create a user). But operations done on a host should at least have these in the playbook.

  pre_tasks:
    - name: Check if ansible cannot be run here
      stat:
        path: /etc/no-ansible
      register: no_ansible

    - name: Verify if we can run ansible
      assert:
        that:
          - "not no_ansible.stat.exists"
        msg: "/etc/no-ansible exists - skipping run on this node"

  # Import roles/tasks here

  post_tasks:
    - name: Touching run file that ansible has ran here
      file:
        path: /var/log/ansible.run
        state: touch

If you need to use handlers, you will need to include them in the playbook.

Roles

If you are using roles that are not part of this repository in the roles directory, you will need to list them in the requirements.yml. For example, we use the IPA role.

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- src: freeipa.ansible_freeipa

Otherwise, custom roles for the infrastructure will sit in ansible/roles.

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