netinstall

Ansible role to configure network installation server.

Requirements

• ansible.builtin
• ansible.posix
• Jinja2

Role Variables

• defaults

  • main.yml

    netinstall_base: ""           # base repo directory
    netinstall_password: ""       # password used in kickstart
    netinstall_ntp: []            # list of NTP servers used in kickstart
    netinstall_pxe: {}            # PXE server configuration
    netinstall_distros:           # list of OS distributions for network install
      - "{{ centos }}"
      - "{{ rhel }}"
      - "{{ ol }}"
      - "{{ ubuntu }}"
      - "{{ opensuse }}"
      - "{{ solaris }}"

  • httpd.yml

    netinstall_VirtualHosts: {}   # httpd configuration, mainly DocumentRoot

• vars

  <ansible_os_family>_mount: {} # iso and loopback mount attributes
  <ansible_os_family>_httpd: {} # attributes of files presented by httpd
  <ansible_os_family>_tftpd: {} # attributes of files presented by tftpd

Dependencies

• httpd
  • service
    • software

Tags

• netinstall.image
  • netinstall.image.directory
  • netinstall.image.download
• netinstall.mount
  • netinstall.mount.repo
  • netinstall.mount.pxe
• netinstall.pxe
  • netinstall.pxe.directory
  • netinstall.pxe.menu
  • netinstall.pxe.kickstart
• netinstall.clean

Example Playbook

• requirements.yml

  - name: netinstall
    src: https://github.com/mario-slowinski/netinstall

• playbook usage

  - hosts: servers
    gather_facts: true  # to get ansible_os_family
    roles:
      - role: netinstall

License

GPL-3.0

Author Information

mario.slowinski@gmail.com