Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients

stacksofplates

@DustinB3403 said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

Okay so this is my existing tree.

The make command wasn't found so I installed make. Running make roles from within the /etc/ansible/playbook-skeleton I got

make roles
git clean -fdx roles
ansible-galaxy install -r roles/requirements.yml

extracting ansible-role-homebrew to /etc/ansible/playbook-skeleton/roles/ansible-role-homebrew

ansible-role-homebrew was installed successfully

adding dependency: elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools

downloading role 'osx-command-line-tools', owned by elliotweiser

downloading role from https://github.com/elliotweiser/ansible-osx-command-line-tools/archive/2.2.1.tar.gz

extracting elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools to /etc/ansible/playbook-skeleton/roles/elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools

elliotweiser.osx-command-line-tools (2.2.1) was installed successfully

I think your missing my point. Don't use /etc/ansible.

Clone the repo somewhere in your home directory that you store your projects and run everything from there.

DustinB3403

@stacksofplates eh. . .

Can I just use mv at this point?

stacksofplates

@DustinB3403 said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

@stacksofplates eh. . .

Can I just use mv at this point?

I mean you can but that's the reason this is all in a repo, so you can just check it out anywhere.

stacksofplates

Plus your tree doesn't have the inventory directory which the ansible.cfg file is looking for.

DustinB3403

@stacksofplates said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

Plus your tree doesn't have the inventory directory which the ansible.cfg file is looking for.

pwd
/home/ansi/playbook-skeleton
# tree
.
├── ansible.cfg
├── group_vars
│   └── README
├── inventory
│   ├── apple_workstations
│   └── dev
├── library
│   └── README
├── Makefile
└── roles
	└── requirements.yml

4 directories, 7 files

DustinB3403

Hopefully that's better?

stacksofplates

@DustinB3403 said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

Hopefully that's better?

Yeah. I mean I'm not trying to make you do it certain way, but if you want to use that skeleton, it's looking for things in a certain directory unless you modify it.

stacksofplates

So I'd put your playbook in /etc/ansi/playbook-skeleton and then you can run make roles to install the role (after you add it to the requirements.yml of course).

DustinB3403

@stacksofplates said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

So I'd put your playbook in /etc/ansi/playbook-skeleton and then you can run make roles to install the role (after you add it to the requirements.yml of course).

okay so everything is in

/home/ansi/playbook-skeleton

With that, I need to make a playbook to do brew stuff, right?

Any pointers on where to go?

stacksofplates

@DustinB3403 said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

@stacksofplates said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

So I'd put your playbook in /etc/ansi/playbook-skeleton and then you can run make roles to install the role (after you add it to the requirements.yml of course).

okay so everything is in

/home/ansi/playbook-skeleton

With that, I need to make a playbook to do brew stuff, right?

Any pointers on where to go?

What was in your apple.yml playbook?

DustinB3403

@stacksofplates Nothing now, I blew it all away.

stacksofplates

@DustinB3403 said in Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients:

@stacksofplates Nothing now, I blew it all away.

Ok. So here https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks.html has pretty much everything you could want, but for a short start here's what I would do:

---
- name: Set up Macs
  hosts: apple_workstations
  user: dustin
  become: true

  tasks:
    - include_role:
        name: role-name

That should be a good simple start. You can pass any variables to the role by doing this:

tasks:
  - include_role:
      name: role-name
    vars: 
      key: value

stacksofplates

This is a good starter video:

Youtube Video