Ansible-Provision

Playing with ansible, provisioning vagrant box

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Developer Machine Setup With Ansible

Sets up necessary and useful tools via ansible mainly aimed for MAC.

Setup

  • Iterm2
  • Git
  • ZSH
  • Emacs
  • Sublime Text
  • Intellij

Points

  • Based on OS_FAMILY variable we can use specific package manager
  • This information we can find it in facts.py code, located in /libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module_utils/facts.py

Use Ansible Playbook For Vagrant Provisioning

Add the following configuration to vagrant file for provisioning the vagrant box.

  config.vm.provision :ansible do |ansible|
    ansible.playbook = "playbook_location/base.yml"
    ansible.inventory_path = "ansible_host_file_location/ansible_hosts"
    ansible.limit = "all"
  end
  • vagrant up or vagrant provision 'll do the job.

Custom Configuration .*rc files:

I've custom Paths, custom aliases for project tools/location, custom functions, loading tools eg: load, android specific rc files, docker etc.

An example i've

function kill_procs {
    name=$1
    changed_pattern="[${name:0:1}]${name:1:${#name}}"
    echo $changed_pattern
    ps aux | grep "$changed_pattern" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill- 9
}

which kills process based on regex. [ Need to kill process lot of time :) ]

which is checked-in in git:bitbucket, and i clone it in $ZSH_CUSTOM, alternately to custom folder by setting up my_configs_path.

enable it by setting sync_custom_config to True, and custom_config_repo to your git repository location.

Variables Used:

# Paths in local Ansible

  • templates_path
  • installables_path # location in remote where installation happens
  • download_location
  • applications_location
  • evernote_download_url
  • sublime_url
  • intellij_url

Currently the above variables are defined in files locations.yml and main.yml.

In these var files the following ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE's are referenced.

  • DEVSETUP_ANSIBLE_DIR
  • DOWNLOAD_LOCATION # set it to any folder / alternately $TMP
  • MY_ZSH_CUSTOM_FOLDER by default zsh considers $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom, or you can use custom folder by pointing $ZSH_CUSTOM to that.

Run the playbook with required variables by setting it in one of the following way.

  • vars_files
  • roles/vars/main.yml
  • via commandline pass with -e parameter

Setup Local Machine

To setup your local machine, run the following command in the cloned git repo directory.

ansible-playbook -i 'localhost', cookbooks/base.yml -c local # optionally pass -vvv to see verbose output.

Resources:

OS_FAMILY = dict(
    RedHat = 'RedHat', Fedora = 'RedHat', CentOS = 'RedHat', Scientific = 'RedHat',
    SLC = 'RedHat', Ascendos = 'RedHat', CloudLinux = 'RedHat', PSBM = 'RedHat',
    OracleLinux = 'RedHat', OVS = 'RedHat', OEL = 'RedHat', Amazon = 'RedHat',
    XenServer = 'RedHat', Ubuntu = 'Debian', Debian = 'Debian', Raspbian = 'Debian', SLES = 'Suse',
    SLED = 'Suse', openSUSE = 'Suse', SuSE = 'Suse', Gentoo = 'Gentoo', Funtoo = 'Gentoo',
    Archlinux = 'Archlinux', Mandriva = 'Mandrake', Mandrake = 'Mandrake',
    Solaris = 'Solaris', Nexenta = 'Solaris', OmniOS = 'Solaris', OpenIndiana = 'Solaris',
    SmartOS = 'Solaris', AIX = 'AIX', Alpine = 'Alpine', MacOSX = 'Darwin',
    FreeBSD = 'FreeBSD', HPUX = 'HP-UX'
)

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