Ansible roles shared between many of my playbooks https://git.fennell.dev/ansible-roles/atom?h=main 2026-09-09T21:54:41Z 2026-09-09T21:54:41Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T21:54:41Z urn:sha1:eb726d710784bb1676042f3fe2f1b5b0bb47cb81 I want to set up monitoring on fennell.dev and search.fennell.dev - neither of which have a postgres instance or should include other prosody-related plugins in the future. Therefore, configure a base set of plugins that should always be included, and let extra plugins / configuration be driven by extra_profiles. Over time, I'll want to create profile maps (containing config for the necessary packages/plugins to install/configure for that profile) to avoid unnecessary duplication of tasks, but for now, it's sufficient. 2026-09-09T21:17:34Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T21:17:34Z urn:sha1:954c8ecb4f1ff54f1097f92224447bf76293cf51 ansible.builtin.user uses useradd's configured default shell if none is specified - which on stock Debian systems, is /bin/sh. Choose a more sane default with colours and reverse-search! This is needed now as I'd like to run both bootstrap and munin-node against both fennell.dev and search.fennell.dev, both of which were unmanaged in the past. Now, at least the initial bootstrap and munin-node config will be managed by ansible. 2026-09-09T21:02:49Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T21:02:49Z urn:sha1:1abcdf6fe1f109db6fa8df609f98b87fccb31b0c This was the only config file still dependent on the wider playbook. There are still multiple variables that are neither defined in the playbook nor in argument_specs. This would be good to clean up later. 2026-09-09T21:00:45Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T21:00:45Z urn:sha1:d2ecd350c47312cbf58840c953a9be68990d01e5 This is a straightforward copy and delete from the xmpp-server playbook for now. Cleanup (for instance, adding a prefix to the variable names) will come later. 2026-09-09T20:53:38Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T20:53:38Z urn:sha1:0dd7bb008d2079f45b85736549ac524796c1f398 Clear out subdirectories which are unlikely to be needed, and install the plugin by default during make. 2026-09-09T20:50:33Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T20:48:42Z urn:sha1:25db56f6241ae50feb54232e25f8203c1a450c7c Since much of the setup (e.g. linter, hook, Makefile configuration) is consistent between ansible roles, instead of having a separate repo per role (as I initially planned), I'd prefer to have a single repo with all of the roles that the playbooks can then pull from. This is in preparation of adding a new munin-node role, following a similar process to bootstrap. 2026-09-09T20:44:54Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T20:44:54Z urn:sha1:afa36d11a380f924588d67172ecf02275461f386 On most of my servers, these will all be configured as the defaults are. On Mythic Beasts servers, and some other hosts, I should pass a mirror path instead of the deafult uris here. 2026-09-09T20:43:36Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T20:43:36Z urn:sha1:258012f00782d10d44d5bb284dfa00059b3af719 As I just performed a naive copy before, files and templates used by the bootstrap role were still resolving via playbook_dir. This still worked, but I want these bootstrap-specific files to remain self-contained within the role. 2026-09-09T20:26:19Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T20:26:19Z urn:sha1:03e6483ad6889ca05e678ff1d11f69aace7ce614 This is a straightforward copy and delete from the xmpp-server playbook for now. Cleanup (for instance, adding a prefix to the variable names) will come later. 2026-09-09T20:17:38Z Matthew Fennell matthew@fennell.dev 2026-09-09T20:12:42Z urn:sha1:4c5207339421379f79b40d28ee132f0daf6ae619 In ~/.ansible.cfg, I include /usr/local/share/ansible/roles in roles_path so that playbooks can find roles from there. Add the corresponding install tasks to the Makefile.