Pi Ansible

This repository includes all the building steps to setup my pi nodes in a repeatable and reusable way.

Getting Started

These instructions have been created against Ubuntu 20.04. Any other OS instructions may vary.

Get all available packages from apt repos

sudo apt-get update

Install the PIP package manager for Python

sudo apt-get install python3-pip -y

Install the latest version of Ansible

sudo pip3 install ansible

(Optional) If you will be connecting via password to a node install the sshpass program

sudo apt-get install sshpass -y

Install git

sudo apt-get install git

Validate that your SSH agent is able to connect to GitHub

ssh -T git@github.com

Clone the repository to the home directory of the current user

cd ~ && git clone git@github.com:chrisw-devops/PiAnsible.git

Before running any playbooks make sure you are in the home directory on the local server. Run the following comand.

cd ~/PiAnsible

If you are using an SSH key to connect to nodes run the following

 ansible-playbook -i inventories/home/hosts master-node.yml

If you are entering a password run the following command

ansible-playbook -i inventories/home/hosts master-node.yml --ask-pass