Ansible Aptly Ops

Scripts to manage Debian repos and mirrors created with Aptly.

This project is based on the ansible-aptly-role but as a standalone project with greater scope.

This project currently is only tested on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial, but other Debian flavors may be supported in the future.

Usage

Creating a Repository

Ansible aptly ops is capable of creating a custom Debian repository for your project.

Hosts Configuration

Hosts are configured in the hosts file. See the documentation for Ansible Inventory for more information about how to specify hosts. Use the [repo-server] group to decide which hosts should be repo servers.

Repository Configuration

Next configure your repository in the group_vars/all file. Here is an example configuration:

aptly_repositories:
    -
        name: yourcompany-dev
        comment: Developent packages
        distribution: trusty
        component: main
        architectures: amd64,i386

See the Aptly documentation for repos for more information on what each configuration parameter does.

Generate Keys

A public/private keypair is required to sign packages for the repository. The keys should be located under secrets/aptly/private.key and secrets/aptly/public.key respectively.

To use an existing key, export the keys to that location like this:

# find the key id you want to use (in this case 61B1BA69)
gpg --list-keys
# export the private key
gpg --export-secret-keys --armor 61B1BA69 > secrets/aptly/private.key
# export the public key
gpg --export --armor 61B1BA69 > secrets/aptly/public.key

Then add the key id to the group_vars/all file like this:

aptly_secret_key_id: 61B1BA69

To create a new keypair for development and do all the above steps automatically, use the ./gen-key.sh script (hint: key generation will go faster if you have haveged installed).

Publish Repository

The aptly-ops.py script can publish a repository the command line. Use the create-repos command to publish the configured repositories.

./aptly-ops.py create-repos

Add Debian Packages

Now use the aptly-ops.py to add Debian packages to your configured repositories.

./aptly-ops.py add-debs ./dummy_0.1_all.deb

Using on the Client

First add your public key to trusted apt keys.

sudo apt-key add secrets/aptly/public.key

Then add an entry in your sources.list config directory.

# in file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yourcompany-dev.list
deb http://[HOST]/yourcompany-dev trusty main

Now update apt with sudo apt-get update and your packages should be available to install.

Todo

mirrors

License

This work is licensed under a BSD license (see LICENSE)

acrisci/ansible-aptly-ops