Ansible Role: sys_hostname

An Ansible Role to set the hostname.

Motivation

Nobody wants to set hostnames manually.

Description

This role sets the hostname either from a given variable or the inventory.

Requirements

Used Modules:

• Ansible Hostname Module

Installation

Install from Ansible Galaxy

ansible-galaxy install while_true_do.sys_hostname

Install from Github

git clone https://github.com/while-true-do/ansible-role-sys_hostname.git while_true_do.sys_hostname

Usage

Role Variables

---
# defaults file for while_true_do.sys_hostname

## Host Management
wtd_sys_hostname: "" # defaults to inventory_hostname

Example Playbook

Running Ansible Roles can be done in a playbook.

Simple

---
- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: while_true_do.sys_hostname

Spcify another hostname

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: while_true_do.sys_hostname
      wtd_sys_hostname: "myCoolHost"

Known Issues

1. RedHat Testing is currently not possible in public, due to limitations in subscriptions.
2. Some services and features cannot be tested properly, due to limitations in docker.

Testing

Most of the "generic" tests are located in the Test Library.

Ansible specific testing is done with Molecule.

Infrastructure testing is done with testinfra.

Automated testing is done with Travis CI.

Contribute

Thank you so much for considering to contribute. We are very happy, when somebody is joining the hard work. Please fell free to open Bugs, Feature Requests or Pull Requests after reading the Contribution Guideline.

See who has contributed already in the kudos.txt.

License

This work is licensed under a BSD-3-Clause License.

Contact

• Site https://while-true-do.io
• Twitter https://twitter.com/wtd_news
• Code https://github.com/while-true-do
• Mail hello@while-true-do.io
• IRC freenode, #while-true-do
• Telegram https://t.me/while_true_do