Installing Ansible

Installing Ansible on a Mac Documentation

YAML Syntax Overview

YAML Syntax Overview

Module Documentation

Ansible Module Documents Used in this Collection

Social Coding with Github

Useful vimrc macro for editing YaML files

autocmd FileType yaml setlocal ai ts=2 sw=2 et colorcolumn=1,3,5,7,9,11,13 nu

user_repos.json

{
  "repos": [
    {
      "name":"mcgonagle-ansible_f5",
      "repo":"https://github.com/mcgonagle/ansible_f5.git",
      "branch":"master",
      "skip":false,
      "skipinstall":true
    }
  ]
}

F5 Super NetOps/DevOps Tools Container

docker run -p 8080:80 -p 2222:22 --rm -it -v /Users/mcgonagle/Dropbox/_F5/super-netops-ansible-container/user_repos.json:/tmp/user_repos.json -e SNOPS_GH_BRANCH=develop f5devcentral/f5-super-netops-container:develop-ansible

Running the Ansible Code

This Ansible code base comes with a shell helper script that runs the playbooks.

$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/run_ansible.sh --all
$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/run_ansible.sh --onboarding
$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/run_ansible.sh --operation
$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/run_ansible.sh --teardown

Ansible Variable Precedence

Ansible 2.x Order of Variable Precedence

Ansible Vault

This code base leverages the ansible vault tool and includes an encrypted password protected file. To edit the username and password run:

ansible-vault edit password.yml

The password for the password file is password

Ansible Roles

This ansible repository is organized into roles. Roles are collections of templates, files, tasks, and variables. Tasks are organized based on the particular module they are implementing. For example, the bigip_device_ntp module is a subdirectory under the onboarding role and has a task set_ntp.yml (roles/tasks/bigip_device_ntp/set_ntp.yml).

Ansible Playbooks

The playbooks in in the ansible playbook directory include the roles.

$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/site.yml
$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/playbooks/onboarding.yml
$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/playbooks/operation.yml
$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/playbooks/teardown.yml
$ANSIBLE_HOME_DIRECTORY/playbooks/today.yml

Ansible Library

Includes the BigIP Modules and distributes them for use.

F5 Network's Ansible Modules

Infrastructure as Code Principles, Practices and Patterns

Infrastructure as Code Benefits

License

Apache V2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.