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It is an ansible role to install dnsmasq and configure it so that you can map a TLD to localhost.
When developing applications on your work station it is annoying to have to type http://localhost. If your application requires sub-domains then it is even more lame because you would have to edit your hosts file for each project and sub-domain.
This role allows you to map something like *.dev to localhost so you can access URLs like http://myapp.dev or http://foo.bar.dev in your browser without any further configuration.
---
# The TLD to use.
dnsmasq_tld: dev
# The amount in seconds to cache apt-update.
apt_cache_valid_time: 86400
For the sake of this example let's say you have a group called dev and you have a typical site.yml file.
To use this role edit your site.yml file to look something like this:
---
- name: ensure devbox is configured
- hosts: localhost
roles:
- { role: nickjj.dnsmasq, tags: dnsmasq }
Let's say you want to edit the TLD, you can do this by opening or creating group_vars/app.yml which is located relative to your inventory directory and then making it look something like this:
---
dnsmasq_tld: staging
$ ansible-galaxy install nickjj.dnsmasq
Tested on ubuntu 12.04 LTS but it should work on other versions that are similar.
You can find it on the official ansible galaxy if you want to rate it.
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