Simply Ansible

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

Usage

$ pip install cookiecutter # or your favorite package manager

$ cookiecutter gh:building5/simply-ansible

Or if you happen to have a local clone of this repo:

$ cookiecutter ./simply-ansible

Features

• 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

TODO

• AWS Cloudformation scripts for spinning up staging and production environments.
  • And inventory and associated group_vars
• Test if project_slug is 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 vagrant or ubuntu
  • But that shared user is necessary for initial spinups, since that's the only user on the VM.

LICENSE

ISC License