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https://bitbucket.org/suspectdevicesadmin/ansible/src/master/

This repository includes the inventory and playbooks for using ansible to manage lxd/lxc based containers as well as common files used to maintain suspect devices environment.

Installing Ansible on lxd server.

Notes On Installing Ansible

Using Ansible.

/etc/ansible/hosts

The hosts file serves to categorize and document the containers running on kb2018 and bs2020.

Ansible usage/playbook

Using Ansible to update containers.

root@kb2018:/etc/ansible# ansible pets  -m raw -a "update.sh"

Container Backup/Archive

Ansible backups are DEPRECIATED.

cd /etc/ansible ;screen -L time ansible-playbook playbooks/backup-lxd-containers.yml -vvv -i importants

A python based script which is run by cron at midnight maintains warm spares on bs2020:

/etc/ansible/python/NightlySnapshots.py

https://bitbucket.org/suspectdevicesadmin/ansible/src/master/python/NightlySnapshots.py

Creation of containers

Container creation is simply a matter of adding the container info to /etc/ansible/hosts. under local_containers. 

root@kb2018:/etc/ansible# nano hosts
...
#   variables used by playbooks to create/maintain containers
#   Host Variables
#     ip_address
#     purpose #
#   Lan Variables
#     ip_netmask
#     ip_gateway
#     ip_dns_server (default server)
#   Base Image alias to create container
#     image_alias
#   Profiles
#     net_and_disk_profile - profile defining disk pool and network connection
#     system_profile       - base users and other cloud-config items
...
[local_containers]
...
 agoodauthor ip_address=198.202.31.160 purpose="Sample Server" image_alias="ubuntu/focal/cloud"  
...

Then run the create-lxc-containers playbook.

root@kb2018:/etc/ansible# ansible-playbook playbooks/create-lxd-containers.yml

Making your changes perminant

Perminant modifications to this directory should be followed by 

git commit -a m"Reason for change"
git push.