From what started out as a slide deck describing getting started and best practices for Ansible, Simply Ansible is now a cookiecutter template for quickly getting started with a decent Ansible project structure. It has a handful of roles that I've found useful, and is a decent starting point for new projects.
For no other reason than to serve as an example, these scripts spin up:
- Node.js on Ubuntu xenial (representing new services)
- Ruby 2.3.1 on Ubuntu trusty (representing legacy services)
- Ruby 2.1.10 on Ubuntu precise (representing something crazy old you really ought to replace)
- A CentOS 7 VM, because there's always something that has to be different
$ pip install cookiecutter # or your favorite package manager
$ cookiecutter gh:building5/simply-ansibleOr if you happen to have a local clone of this repo:
$ cookiecutter ./simply-ansible- Running Ansible in a virtualenv, to avoid surprises from version ` differences on different control machines
- Wrapper scripts for consistently running
ansible-playbook - Vagrant for local development
- Installs a role from Ansible galaxy
- AWS Cloudformation scripts for spinning up staging and production
environments.
- And inventory and associated
group_vars
- And inventory and associated
- Test if
project_slugis a valid domain name - Figure out how to avoid shared accounts. Ansible should SSH as the user
running the playbook; not as a shared user like
vagrantorubuntu- But that shared user is necessary for initial spinups, since that's the only user on the VM.