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ansibleguy/README.md

Introduction

I enjoy creating automation templates using the platform Ansible (by Red Hat).

Creating Ansible Roles and Modules/Collections should help others to get started faster.

Feedback is appreciated!

Principles

💭 User interaction

Keeping the user interaction clean and simple

  • Per example:

    If a network admin wants to configure a WireGuard VPN-Infrastructure he/she/... should not need to think about the role - just the abstracted topology!

  • Each role should use as few 'top-level' variables as possible

    Most roles will take ONE nested variable (dictionary)

  • Commonly redundant config is not accepable.

    The role should work its magic ✨ and handle it using inheritance, scoping and/or defaults

🏷 Default = Opt-out

Preferring opt-out on optional features

  • IT-Infrastructure is a very sensitive domain.

    I hate it if some role/script does more than it should.

    That can lead to unpredictable results!

  • The roles allow the user to choose the features they want to opt-in.

📗 Documentation

Good documentation

  • The best tool is useless if you can not handle it..

    Documentation is the tools 'interface' and should be clean.

    I can't tell how often I came across a tool with a nice feature-set but could not use it as of the lack of good documentation!

  • Transparency is key when getting to know a role.

    Examples (config => result) are very vital for this.

    Not everybody wants to run the role to see what it actually does do.

🔐 Security

  • As security is very important in todays IT environment I'm checking my Roles and Modules/Collections for security best-practises.
  • Roles and Modules will at least warn you if unsecure settings are used or will not even fail on you if you use them in an unsecure way.
  • You should always use encrypted connectivity => Automation makes it very easy to add/generate certificates.

Epilog

Automation can save time and nerves, enables infrastructure-as-code (with all it's benefits) and scales well.

What are you waiting on? Automate! 😄


Have a nice day!

  • AnsibleGuy

Pinned

  1. Ansible Role to provision Wireguard Site-to-Site Tunnels

    Jinja 10

  2. Ansible Collection to manage OPNSense firewalls using their API

    Python 147 13

  3. Ansible Role to provision NFTables firewall

    Python 2 1

  4. Tutorial to get to know what Red Hat Ansible is and how it works

    Python 2

  5. infra_pki Public

    Ansible Role to provision and manage one or multiple PKI's on the target server

    Shell

  6. Ansible Role to provision OpenVPN Servers (Client-to-Site)

    Python 1

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feat: python3 requirements-file for docker deployments

Greetings! Many users have problems with installing missing Ansible-Module dependencies! (Python3 modules) This PR would: allow docker-users to ma…

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