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public:tool:ansible [2022/10/04 03:16]
canvon [Installation] Document a concrete installation plan |
public:tool:ansible [2022/10/11 06:04] (current)
canvon [Tool: ansible] Add section "Random stuff": Add Ansible FAQ, with suggestions about (turning off) cowsay and use of mkpasswd which (at least on Debian) comes with the whois package |
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| [[https://docs.ansible.com/|ansible]] is an agent-less [[wp>configuration management]] [[.|tool]] with [[wp>Infrastructure_as_Code]] (IaC), but high-level with a declarative syntax that is aimed to ordinary people to understand (or at least get a glimpse of the idea). | [[https://docs.ansible.com/|ansible]] is an agent-less [[wp>configuration management]] [[.|tool]] with [[wp>Infrastructure_as_Code]] (IaC), but high-level with a declarative syntax that is aimed to ordinary people to understand (or at least get a glimpse of the idea). |
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| | ===== Random stuff ===== |
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| | * https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/faq.html |
| | * Perhaps the canonical place talking about ''cowsay'' and how to turn it off. |
| | * At one point, it references ''mkpasswd'' -- this, on Debian, seems to be part of the ''whois'' package... O_o (For historical reasons.)\\ For me (canvon), at the time of writing (2022-10-10), seems quite as odd as "hundreds"(?) of Debian packages depending on library ''com_err'' built from the ''e2fsprogs'' sources. ... |
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| ===== Version requirements ===== | ===== Version requirements ===== |
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| | (The ansible "controller" node [[http://blog.rolpdog.com/2020/03/why-no-ansible-controller-for-windows.html|cannot run on Windows]] (native Win32 API etc.; it seems possible with WSL). A Linux/UNIX ansible controller can configure/manage Windows nodes, though.) |
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| [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-community-changelogs|Correlation of ansible version with ansible-core version]]... [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#node-requirement-summary|ansible-core version requirements]] -- maybe replace "devel" in the URL with a version number, like, [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.10/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#prerequisites|2.10]]... (N.B.: Anchor ''#node-requirement-summary'' was ''#prerequisites'', back then.) | [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-community-changelogs|Correlation of ansible version with ansible-core version]]... [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/devel/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#node-requirement-summary|ansible-core version requirements]] -- maybe replace "devel" in the URL with a version number, like, [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.10/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#prerequisites|2.10]]... (N.B.: Anchor ''#node-requirement-summary'' was ''#prerequisites'', back then.) |
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| ===== Installation ===== | ===== Installation ===== |
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| | * [[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/installation_distros.html#installing-ansible-on-ubuntu|Official ansible documentation]] says to use a PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Ubuntu, and to use the same PPA with "fake"/translated release names for/from Debian, too. |
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| * On Debian 11 "''bullseye''", it should suffice to do ''apt install ansible'', maybe? | * On Debian 11 "''bullseye''", it should suffice to do ''apt install ansible'', maybe? |
| * ansible 4.10.0 | * ansible 4.10.0 |
| * ansible-core 2.11.12 | * ansible-core 2.11.12 |
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| | ===== Links ===== |
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| | * https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/faster-ansible-playbook-execution mentions: |
| | * Activate callback plugins in ''ansible.cfg'': ''[defaults]'' ''callbacks_enabled = timer, profile_tasks, profile_roles''\\ This will measure each task's execution time and output all of them ordered by time taken, at the end of the play. (At least I think that is what it does.) |
| | * Disable fact gathering to speed things up at start of play. |
| | * A lot more. I (canvon) don't need (or even don't understand) much of the rest... |
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