Role Name

Applies basic configurations onto provisioned compute instance(s) on GCP.

• Add a machine-user as sudoer,
• Generate ssh-key,
• Install packages
  • openjdk-8-jre
  • openjdk-8-jdk-headless
  • pdsh
• Mount and Format disks
• Set environment vars

Requirements

Uses standard ssh, so nothing specific to GCP modules!

• ansible client
• ansible.cfg file
• hosts file
• gcp account

Role Variables

You may provide additional packages, if you need other fundamental installations. And, You must provide valid user values for ownership etc.

If you need other product installations such as elastic etc., Please, use gcp-basic-installations role.

defaults/main.yml

# GCP connection parameters
general:
    project: sandbox-236618                     #GCP project id
    region: europe-west4
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: ~/.ssh/ansible.json   #ansible service account file name
scopes:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute

# Fundamental Packages to install    
packages: 
    - openjdk-8-jre
    - pdsh

# machine-user details
user:
    xxx:                                  #username: Such as hadoop, elasticsearch etc.. Apply to other fields!
        type: "rsa"                       #ssh-key
        file: "/home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa"     #username!
        groups: "google-sudoers,adm"      #GCP sudo groups

additional_disks:
    data-disk: 
        path: "/data"
        device: "/dev/sdb"
        fstype: "ext4"
        owner: "xxx"                      #username!
    log-disk: 
        path: "/logs"
        device: "/dev/sdc"
        fstype: "ext4"
        owner: "xxx"                      #username!

Dependencies

• gcp_instances: to create instance(s) on GCP

Example Playbook

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hosts

# static inventory file

# group w/ alias suh as hadoop/bigdata/ ....
# Inspire from network Tags in GCP while host grouping
# Update IPs
# possible params: ansible_host=, ansible_user=, ansible_ssh_pass=, ansible_connection=ssh/winrm/localhost
[web]
standalone-node ansible_host=34.90.161.000

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
host_key_checking = False
inventory = hosts

remote_user = tansudasli                          #your gcp account
private_key_file = ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine   #If set, always uses this for authentication

[inventory]
# List of enabled inventory plugins and the order in which they are used.
enable_plugins = host_list, script, yaml, ini, auto, gcp_compute

configuration.yaml

- name: Fundamental Compute Instance Configurations
  hosts: 
    - all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  # tasks:
  
  roles:

    - role: tansudasli.gcp_basic_configurations 
      packages: 
        - openjdk-8-jre
        - openjdk-8-jdk-headless
        - pdsh

      user: 
          hadoop:                               #username: Such as hadoop, elasticsearch etc.. Apply to other 
              type: "rsa"                       #
              file: "/home/hadoop/.ssh/id_rsa"  #username!
              groups: "google-sudoers,adm"

      additional_disks:
          data-disk: 
              path: "/data"
              device: "/dev/sdb"
              fstype: "ext4"
              owner: "hadoop"                   #username!
          log-disk: 
              path: "/logs"
              device: "/dev/sdc"
              fstype: "ext4"
              owner: "hadoop"                   #username!

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

tansudasli