Raspberry Pi 3 configuration management with Ansible

Work in progress!

Flash SD Cards

Image: Raspbian

Flash tool: Github hypriot/flash

$ curl -L https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest -o raspbian.zip
$ ./flash raspbian.zip

Initial login data after boot

username: pi, password: raspberry

Playbooks

network.yml

$ ansible-playbook network.yml --ask-pass

Last task is rebooting the systems. The RPIs will be accessible by the new IP.

common.yml

$ ansible-playbook common.yml --ask-pass

docker.yml

Docker-UI

Link to Docker-UI project

Link to installed instance

http://hostname:9000/

jenkins.yml

Helpful commands

Log into running container

docker exec -i -t CONTAINER_NAME_OR_ID /bin/bash

Search for file content

grep --color=auto -nsH 'CONTENT' *

Find network addresses in the neighborhood

arp -a -n

Add user to docker group

sudo usermod -aG docker jenkins

Ubuntu to Debian comparison

Ubuntu number	Ubuntu name	Debian name
16.04	xenial	stretch / sid
15.10	wily	jessie / sid
15.04	vivid	jessie / sid
14.10	utopic	jessie / sid
14.04	trusty	jessie / sid
13.10	saucy	wheezy / sid
13.04	raring	wheezy / sid
12.10	quantal	wheezy / sid
12.04	precise	wheezy / sid
11.10	oneiric	wheezy / sid
11.04	natty	squeeze / sid
10.10	maverick	squeeze / sid
10.04	lucid	squeeze / sid

Source of table