ansible/README.md

ansible

The ansible files for the pains-perdus infra.

Deploy a playbook

ansible-playbook playbook.yml

Add --check to do a dry run

Edit the vault

ansible-vault edit group_vars/all/vault

with the edditor defined in the env varible $EDITOR and the password of the vault in the file .vault_password (Carefull not to commit it!!!)

SSH key whith passphrase

To avoid entering the passphrase of the ssh key for each host, we have to use an ssh-agent. The ssh-agent with xonsh does not really works, so in my case I have to use ansible and the agent inside a sh process:

sh
eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add
ansible all -m ping # or whatever you want to do with ansible
exit

Vault managment

To use multiple vaults with multiple password, we use vault id. The mapping vault-id@password-file is done in ansible.cfg under [defaults] in vault_identity_list: vault_identity_list = main_vault@.main_vault_password , user_vault@.user_vault_password

To create a new vault with an id and password registered in ansible.cfg: ansible-vault create --encrypt-vault-id user_vault group_vars/all/user_vault