| 1 | # Setup on Ubuntu |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ``` |
| 4 | apt install ansible ansible-mitogen |
| 5 | ``` |
| 6 | |
| 7 | # Required collections |
| 8 | |
| 9 | ``` |
| 10 | ansible-galaxy install -r roles/requirements.yml |
| 11 | ``` |
| 12 | |
| 13 | # Privileged data |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Privileged data is stored in Bitwarden. To use roles that fetch privileged data, |
| 16 | the following utilities must be available: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * [bw](https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/) |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Once installed, login and unlock the vault: |
| 21 | |
| 22 | ``` |
| 23 | bw login # or, `bw unlock` |
| 24 | export BW_SESSION=xxxx |
| 25 | bw sync -f |
| 26 | ``` |
| 27 | |
| 28 | # Running playbooks |
| 29 | |
| 30 | ``` |
| 31 | ansible-playbook -i hosts [-l SUBSET] site.yaml |
| 32 | ``` |
| 33 | |
| 34 | # Bootstrapping hosts |
| 35 | |
| 36 | ## Windows |
| 37 | |
| 38 | 1. Configure either SSH or WinRM connection: see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/os_guide/windows_setup.html |
| 39 | 2. For arm64 hosts: |
| 40 | * Install the necessary optional features (eg. OpenSSH, Hyper-V) since Windows RSAT isn't available on Arm64 yet |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ## CI 'rootnode' |
| 43 | |
| 44 | 1. Add an entry to the `vms` variable in the host vars for a libvirt host |
| 45 | * See the defaults and details in `roles/libvirt/vars/main.yml` and `roles/libvirt/tasks/main.yml` |
| 46 | * Make sure to set the `cdrom` key to the path of ISO for the installer |
| 47 | 2. Run the playbook, eg. `ansible-playbook -i hosts -l cloud07.internal.efficios.com site.yml` |
| 48 | * The VM should be created and started |
| 49 | 3. Once the VM is installed take a snapshot so that Jenkins may revert to the original state |
| 50 | |
| 51 | ### Ubuntu auto-installer |
| 52 | |
| 53 | 1. Note your IP address |
| 54 | 2. Switch to the directory with the user-data files: `cd roles/libvirt/files` |
| 55 | 3. Write out the instance-specific metadata, eg. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | ``` |
| 58 | cat > meta-data <<EOF |
| 59 | instance-id: iid-XXX |
| 60 | hostname: XXX.internal.efficios.com |
| 61 | EOF |
| 62 | ``` |
| 63 | * The instance-id is used to determine if re-installation is necessary. |
| 64 | 4. Start a python web server: `python3 -m http.server 3003` |
| 65 | 5. Connect to the VM using a remote viewer on the address given by `virsh --connect qemu+ssh://root@host/system domdisplay` |
| 66 | 6. Edit the grub boot options for the installer and append the following as arguments for the kernel: `autoinstall 'ds=nocloud-net;s=http://IPADDRESS:3003/'` and boot the installer |
| 67 | * Note that the trailing `/` and quoting are important |
| 68 | * The will load the `user-data`, `meta-data`, and `vendor-data` files in the directory served by the python web server |
| 69 | 7. After the installation is complete, the system will reboot and run cloud-init for the final portion of the initial setup. Once completed, ansible can be run against it using the ubuntu user and becoming root, eg. `ansible-playbook -i hosts -u ubuntu -b ...` |