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
cloud-guest-utils on Debian, cloud-utils-growpart on RHEL
jq
lsof
nano
rsync
sudo
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 $SUDO_USER „
Colorizes the Bash prompt and sets it to something like
[17:30:19 user@server Rocky8 ~]$
Mandatory Requirements¶
On RHEL-compatible systems, enable the EPEL repository. This can be done using the linuxfabrik.lfops.repo_epel role.
Optional Role Variables¶
tools__editor
Set the standard editor, for example for editing crontabs.
Type: String.
Default:
'nano'
tools__icinga2_api_url
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
rebootalias.Type: String.
Default:
'https://{{ icinga2_agent__icinga2_master_host | d("") }}:{{ icinga2_agent__icinga2_master_port | d(5665) }}'
tools__icinga2_api_user_login
The Icinga2 API User to set the downtime for the corresponding host and all its services in the
rebootalias.Type: Dictionary.
Default: unset
tools__icinga2_hostname
The hostname of the Icinga2 host on which the downtime should be set.
Type: String.
Default:
'{{ ansible_facts["nodename"] }}'
tools__prompt_ps1
Set a custom primary prompt for bash. This is displayed before each command.
Type: String.
Default: green, if the host is in an Ansible group called
test; yellow, if the host is in an Ansible group calledstage; red, if neither condition above applies, assuming a productive machine.
tools__prompt_use_fqdn
Set to
trueto show the FQDN in the prompt.Type: Bool.
Default:
false
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]\$ '
tools__prompt_use_fqdn: true