aagat/admin-tools

Ansible playbooks and other admin tools used to administrate #! servers

#! Admin Tools

Ansible playbooks and other admin tools/docs for maintaining the #! network.

Requirements

• Recent version of Ansible
• Local #! pass database
• User with sudo access on all servers

Usage

Install a package

1. Connect to any shell server as yourself

   ssh [email protected]

2. Install Package

   sudo apt-get install some-package

3. Update packages.txt list

   sudo dpkg --get-selections > /etc/packages.txt

4. Commit changes via etckeeper

   sudo etckeeper commit -m 'Updated some package'

Making a configuration change

1. Connect to any shell server as yourself

   ssh [email protected]

2. Make and test any desired changes to files in /etc

   sudo vim /etc/some-config/file

3. Commit changes via etckeeper

   sudo etckeeper commit -m 'updated some-config with some change'

Sync packages/config across all servers

1. Run Ansible playbook "sync"

   ansible-playbook -K -u your-sudo-user sync.yml