Ansible configs for home infrastructure: router, nas, server, desktop, laptop, htpc, offlinepc
a project by vcuadradojuan
Updated over 5 years ago. 2 hacker ♥️.

A successor of

This project was already rolling before hackweek: https://github.com/viccuad/ansible-configs.

Right now it has a working testing setup using vagrant-libvirt that simulates home lan and wifi by switches, raid 10 of 4 disks on the NAS, router working with Freedombox (Debian pure-blend).

I plan to automate as much as possible the desktop plays, add to the router until it's a full fledged one, add roles for cockpit, borgbackup, and whatever I can think of.

It would be cool to add wifi simulation to the libvirt deployment using mac80211_hwsim or something similar.

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ansible vagrant libvirt debian freedombox infra router nas desktop laptop htpc offlinepc

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  • over 6 years ago: TBro liked this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan liked this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "libvirt" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "debian" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "freedombox" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "infra" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "router" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "nas" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "desktop" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "laptop" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "htpc" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "offlinepc" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "ansible" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan added keyword "vagrant" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan started this project.
  • about 7 years ago: vcuadradojuan originated this project.


    • Comments

    • joachimwerner
      about 7 years ago by joachimwerner | Reply

      I’d be really interested in your take-aways about how Salt and Ansible compare. I guess you are aware that Salt is the preferred choice for configuration management and automation at SUSE, but we are always open to suggestions on how to improve things.

      • vcuadradojuan
        about 7 years ago by vcuadradojuan | Reply

        > I guess you are aware that Salt is the preferred choice for configuration > management and automation at SUSE, but we are always open to suggestions on how > to improve things.

        Yes, I'm aware that Salt is the preferred choice for SUSE. Sadly, for my day to day work at SUSE I need Ansible (and hence this hackweek project as practice); I'll happily provide you more information outside of a public forum if you desire.

        > I’d be really interested in your take-aways about how Salt and Ansible compare.

        As you can see by the predecessor, salt-configs, listed in the description, I tried to achieve the same project half a year ago in Salt. In that repo there's an incomplete list of hiccups at TODO.org.

        These include a list of bugs about mainly copying files maintaining their attributes, copying soft symlinks, appending to files with utf8 and being able to do pillar['var'] in pillar files. I remember working around other distinct bugs prior to start collecting the in the TODO.org file, so maybe perusing the code for TODOs and comment workarounds would be a good idea.

        Some of these bugs have already been closed in the latest Salt version, but since Salt has a server-client architecture, I will need to backport those new versions to the several OSes that I target and write the Salt states with conditionals in case that is not possible; this is outside of my desire for a personal project as this one.

        Another solution would be to use salt-ssh; which I tried and found that it didn't implement the whole functionality of Salt, particularly gitfs, needed for using community salt-formulas, which are a big productivity multiplier (At the docs, grep for "However, needed fileserver wrappers are still under development.". I haven't found more documentation than that on this topic).

        I could also use salt-call and run the states locally on the minions, but I also discarded that approach for security reasons: I didn't want to have all salt states, pillars and secrets present in all machines. One can think of possible workarounds for checking out salt configs, but it was also outside of my desire for a personal project.

        The folks in #salt @freenode where really nice, and I look forward to use Salt for my personal projects in the future. Please don't hesitate to come by my office if you are interested further.

    • vcuadradojuan
      about 7 years ago by vcuadradojuan | Reply 

      In 4 half-days I was able to:
- Created repo https://github.com/viccuad/vagrant-libvirt-ansible-example.
  Contains a production/testing environment example for ansible
- Contribute to ansible-configs
  https://github.com/viccuad/ansible-configs/graphs/contributors?from=2017-11-10&to=2017-11-16&type=c
  35 commits, mainly achieving:
  * Add cockpit, unattended, themes, flatpak, server, desktop, icons, games roles
  * Migrate to roles of roles for desktop and server
  * Make freedombox installation idempotent
  * Reboot freedombox and wait for host to come back on installation
  * Make pcengines kernel tasks idempotent
  * Add firewalld configs for every thing networked on every role
  * Update dotfiles: .spacemacs, weechat, neovim, debian
- Migrate fully to matrix.org and weechat plugin, ditch IRC. See:
  https://github.com/viccuad/ansible-configs/commit/3d11de899a29df3c9026b18798eb736610a3a36e

      • vcuadradojuan
        over 6 years ago by vcuadradojuan | Reply

        In this week I was able to:

        https://gitlab.com/viccuad/ansible-configs/commits/master
Write ~50 commits, made a lot of stuff idempotent, changed CI, added
new roles

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