Ansible Role tools
This role ensures that some additional tools are installed and the Bash environment is configured.
Tools that this role installs:
bash-completion
lsof
nano
rsync
tmux
vim
wget
This role sets some new Bash alias for:
dmesg
poweroff
reboot
whatismyip
Bash:
export EDITOR
HISTSIZE=100000
HISTTIMEFORMAT=“%Y-%m-%d %T $USER $SUDO_USER „
Colorizes the Bash prompt and sets it to something like
[17:30:19 user@server Rocky8 ~]$
Runs on
Fedora
RHEL 7 (and compatible)
RHEL 8 (and compatible)
RHEL 9 (and compatible)
Mandatory Requirements
On RHEL-compatible systems, enable the EPEL repository. This can be done using the linuxfabrik.lfops.repo_epel role.
Optional Role Variables
Variable |
Description |
Default Value |
|---|---|---|
|
The URL of the Icinga2 API (usually on the Icinga2 Master). This will be used to set a downtime for the corresponding host and all its services in the |
`‘https://{{ icinga2_agent__icinga2_master_host |
|
The Icinga2 API User to set the downtime for the corresponding host and all its services in the |
unset |
|
The hostname of the Icinga2 host on which the downtime should be set. |
|
|
Set the standard editor, for example for editing crontabs. |
|
|
Set a custom primary prompt for bash. This is displayed before each command. |
* green, if the host is in an Ansible group called |
Example:
# optional
tools__editor: 'vim'
tools__icinga2_api_url: 'https://icinga.example.com:5665'
tools__icinga2_api_user_login:
username: 'downtime-user'
password: 'linuxfabrik'
tools__icinga2_hostname: 'myhost.example.com'
tools__prompt_ps1: '[\[\033[0;34m\]\$(date +%H:%M:%S) \u@\h \w$NO_COLOR]\$ '