Network/Ansible

Ansible
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Skills	Sysadmin stuff
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Ansible

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Code

The codebase that is used to manage our infra can be found our gitlab. Note that this repo is marked as private since it contains secrets stored in an ansible-vault.

Deployment of code

We use ansible-puller on each managed system which pulls the code from a repository. This is scheduled to run each hour. During development you can test code using the debug-ansible-playbook command manually.

Setting it up

Make sure you have the following dependencies installed. Note that this documentation assumes a linux based system. You are on your own if you use something different. Also, be very, very careful if you edit these files under windows, since that can mangle the line endings. This code will break unless you use LF line endings.

• ansible
• ansible-vault
• git

Making changes

We use GitOps to deploy changes onto this system. This means that you always need to commit your code to gitlab before you can deploy changes onto a system. Once your code is committed, login to a system and run the debug-ansible-playbook command. By default, this will use site.yml as the playbook. Optionally, you can pass a custom playbook for more rapid development.