Using Ansible to Manage install and update Apple OSX DHCP clients

DustinB3403

Okay so I'm just now getting back to this after the break and the Monday rush.

I'm having an issue that doesn't make sense to me.

I can't use ansible to ping any of my hosts (the one of interest is everything dbeue) but I can ssh in without having to enter a password so keyauth is working.

What am I missing or have misconfigured here?

IRJ

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

Okay so I'm just now getting back to this after the break and the Monday rush.

I'm having an issue that doesn't make sense to me.

I can't use ansible to ping any of my hosts (the one of interest is everything dbeue) but I can ssh in without having to enter a password so keyauth is working.

What am I missing or have misconfigured here?

That looks like a DNS issue.

DustinB3403

@IRJ will add the IP and test again, but I'm pretty certain I was unable to ping even by IP address.

DustinB3403

I got it, the config file was set to use root for the remote user, updated my config file and now I can at least access the client via IP address.

IRJ

@DustinB3403 how are you liking ansible so far?

DustinB3403

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

@DustinB3403 how are you liking ansible so far?

I'm still just getting into it. I'm not sure how playbooks work or how to confirm that the formatting is correct.

IRJ

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

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

@DustinB3403 how are you liking ansible so far?

I'm still just getting into it. I'm not sure how playbooks work or how to confirm that the formatting is correct.

DustinB3403

So this is where I'm at currently with a playbook I wrote out by hand (not at all sure if it's correct).

ansible-playbook apple.yml --check
ERROR! the role 'geerlineguy.homebrew' was not found in /etc/ansible/roles:/root/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible

The error appears to be in '/etc/ansible/apple.yml': line 11, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  roles:
	- geerlineguy.homebrew
	  ^ here

Apple yaml file

---

- name: Installing 1Password
  connection: network_cli
  gather_facts: false
  hosts: apple_workstations
  vars:
	homebrew_installed_packages:
	  - 1password
  roles:
	- geerlineguy.homebrew
~

So I guess I need to add something into the roles folder under /etc/anisble/roles

IRJ

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

ERROR! the role 'geerlineguy.homebrew' was not found in /etc/ansible/roles:/root/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible

You need to install the role

IRJ

sudo ansible-galaxy install

DustinB3403

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

sudo ansible-galaxy install

sudo ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.homebrew
 [WARNING]: - geerlingguy.homebrew (2.9.0) is already installed - use --force to change version to unspecified

DustinB3403

This is the galaxy page https://galaxy.ansible.com/geerlingguy/homebrew

IRJ

Are you running this from /etc/ansible/ ?

DustinB3403

@IRJ yes.

IRJ

Ok let's try this. Is your playbook only one file?

#***********************************************************
# Create or append ansible requirements file
#***********************************************************


sudo sh -c "echo '- src: /etc/ansible/apple.yml' >> /etc/ansible/requirements.yml"

#***********************************************************
# Install the role
#***********************************************************

cd /etc/ansible/
sudo ansible-galaxy install -p roles -r /etc/ansible/requirements.yml

#***********************************************************
# Run ansible playbook file
#***********************************************************

sudo ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/apple.yml

DustinB3403

By default it installs to /root/.ansible/roles/geerlingguy.homebrew/ rather than into /etc/ansible/roles

So I copied the file to /etc/ansible/roles

When running the playbook I get

ERROR! the playbook: apple.yml could not be found

DustinB3403

This is the sample playbook I'm testing with.

---

- name: Installing 1Password
connection: network_cli
gather_facts: false
hosts: apple_workstations
vars:
    homebrew_installed_packages:
    - 1password
roles:
    - geerlineguy.homebrew

This yaml file is located at /etc/ansible/apple.yml

IRJ

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

This is the sample playbook I'm testing with.
---

- name: Installing 1Password
connection: network_cli
gather_facts: false
hosts: apple_workstations
vars:
    homebrew_installed_packages:
    - 1password
roles:
    - geerlineguy.homebrew
This yaml file is located at /etc/ansible/apple.yml

Try the commands I posted above

DustinB3403

sudo sh -c "echo '- src: /etc/ansible/apple.yml' >>                                                                                                                                                              /etc/ansible/requirements.yml"
[root@rocansible01 ansible]# pwd
/etc/ansible
[root@rocansible01 ansible]# sudo ansible-galaxy install -p roles -r /etc/ansibl                                                                                                                                                             e/requirements.yml
[WARNING]: - /etc/ansible/apple.yml was NOT installed successfully: the file
downloaded was not a tar.gz

ERROR! - you can use --ignore-errors to skip failed roles and finish processing                                                                                                                                                              the list.
[root@rocansible01 ansible]# sudo ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/apple.yml
ERROR! the role 'geerlineguy.homebrew' was not found in /etc/ansible/roles:/root/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/                                                                                                               ansible/roles:/etc/ansible

The error appears to be in '/etc/ansible/apple.yml': line 11, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

roles:
    - geerlineguy.homebrew
    ^ here

[root@rocansible01 ansible]#

DustinB3403

So even without the role (working or my lack of understanding on how to use it), Ansible is starting to look pretty damn nice. No dealing with VNC tools or ARD, sending ad-hoc commands is pretty damn simple too and would solve a large portion of the issues I forsee.

Monthly updates for example.

It would be nice to be able to run the tertiary software updates as well with brew, and I'm still figuring that part out, but this might be a long term solution.