Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients

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