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

Tags

Tag

What it does

Reload / Restart

tools

Installs and configures some tools

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Optional Role Variables

Variable

Description

Default Value

tools__editor

Set the standard editor, for example for editing crontabs.

'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 reboot alias.

`‘https://{{ icinga2_agent__icinga2_master_host

tools__icinga2_api_user_login

The Icinga2 API User to set the downtime for the corresponding host and all its services in the reboot alias.

unset

tools__icinga2_hostname

The hostname of the Icinga2 host on which the downtime should be set.

'{{ ansible_facts["nodename"] }}'

tools__prompt_ps1

Set a custom primary prompt for bash. This is displayed before each command.

* green, if the host is in an Ansible group called test
* yellow, if the host is in an Ansible group called stage
* red, if neither condition above applies, assuming a productive machine

tools__prompt_use_fqdn

Boolean. Set to true to show the FQDN in the prompt.

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

License

The Unlicense

Author Information

Linuxfabrik GmbH, Zurich