Ansible Role: Flight Deck base

Installs base utilities and performs common configuration the Flight Deck set of containers.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml).

Creating groups

flightdeck_groups

Specifies the groups to create.

flightdeck_groups:
  - name: "flighdeck"
  - name: "green"
    gid: 999
  - name: "purple"
    system: true

Creating users

flightdeck_users

Specifies the users to create. The format is similar to socketwench.users-and-groups.

Groups must first be created using flightdeck_groups.

flightdeck_users:
  - name: "flighdeck"
    group: "flightdeck"
    home: "/home/flightdeck"

Customizing the prompt

flightdeck_root_prompt and flightdeck_user_prompt

Allows you to change the default command line prompt for root, and for all other users.

Installing packages

flightdeck_base_packages

Specifies a list of Alpine Linux packages to install. If not provided, bash will be installed.

Customizing the entrypoint

flightdeck_run_commands

By default, this role will create an entrypoint script, /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh for use by Docker. You can add further commands by specifying them in this variable:

flightdeck_run_commands: |
    ansible-playbook -i /ansible/inventories/all.ini /ansible/run.yml

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Add the role to a playbook which is run during a docker build.

- hosts: docker
  roles:
     - role: ten7.flightdeck_base

License

GPL v3

Author Information

This role was created by TEN7.

socketwench/flightdeck_base