{"id":8588,"date":"2016-07-20T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/gettin-ansible-up-and-running-on-a-sles-12-sp1-host\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:38:10","slug":"gettin-ansible-up-and-running-on-a-sles-12-sp1-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/gettin-ansible-up-and-running-on-a-sles-12-sp1-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ansible up and running on a SLES 12 SP1 host"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently at a customer we had to setup Ansible<\/a> on a SLES 12 SP1<\/a> host. In comparison to RedHat or Ubuntu based distributions there are some more steps to do as Ansible is not included in the standard SLES repositories. Here we go …<\/p>\n

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Start with the user, group, directories and permissions:<\/p>\n

\nhost:~ # groupadd ansible\nhost:~ # useradd -g ansible -m ansible\nhost:~ # passwd ansible\nhost:~ # mkdir \/opt\/ansible\nhost:~ # chown ansible:ansible \/opt\/ansible\nhost:~ # mkdir \/etc\/ansible\nhost:~ # chown ansible:ansible \/etc\/ansible\nhost:~ # touch \/etc\/ansible\/hosts\nhost:~ # chown ansible:ansible \/etc\/ansible\/hosts\nhost:~ # chmod 600 \/etc\/ansible\/hosts\n<\/pre>\n
In our case we wanted to install Ansible directly from the git repository on github so we needed to install git:<\/p>\n
\nhost:~ # zypper install git\n<\/pre>\n
As pip<\/a> was not available in the os repositories we had to install manually:<\/p>\n
\nhost:~ # cd \/var\/tmp\nhost:~ # export http_proxy=proxy:port    # if a proxy is used\nhost:~ # export https_proxy=proxy:port   # if a proxy is used\nhost:~ # wget https:\/\/bootstrap.pypa.io\/get-pip.py\nhost:~ # python get-pip.py\nhost:~ # pip install paramiko PyYAML Jinja2 httplib2 six\n<\/pre>\n
Installing Ansible from here on is straight forward:<\/p>\n
\nhost:\/var\/tmp # su - ansible\nansible@host:~> cd \/opt\/ansible\/\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible> export http_proxy=webproxy.amag.car.web:8080\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible> export https_proxy=webproxy.amag.car.web:8080\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible> git config --global http.proxy $http_proxy\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible> git config --global https.proxy $http_proxy\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible>git clone https:\/\/github.com\/ansible\/ansible.git --recursive\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible>cd ansible\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible> git pull --rebase\nCurrent branch devel is up to date.\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible> ansible@s1100tap460:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible> git submodule update --init --recursive\n<\/pre>\n
Ansible provides a script which makes it easy to setup the environment:<\/p>\n
\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible>cd ansible\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible>. hacking\/env-setup\n<\/pre>\n
This does the initial stuff required for running Ansible out of a git repository and does set all the environment variables. It is  good idea to do this automatically once you login as ansible user:<\/p>\n
\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible> echo \". \/opt\/ansible\/ansible\/hacking\/env-setup -q\" >> ~\/.bash_profile\n<\/pre>\n
Now you can execute ansible without adjusting your environment or switching to the installation directory:<\/p>\n
\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible> which ansible\n\/opt\/ansible\/ansible\/bin\/ansible\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible> ansible --version\nansible 2.2.0 (devel 4cc4dc6793) last updated 2016\/07\/19 13:51:23 (GMT +200)\n  lib\/ansible\/modules\/core: (detached HEAD 7de287237f) last updated 2016\/07\/19 13:51:40 (GMT +200)\n  lib\/ansible\/modules\/extras: (detached HEAD 68ca157f3b) last updated 2016\/07\/19 13:51:53 (GMT +200)\n  config file =\n<\/pre>\n
To test we can add the localhost to the Ansible inventory:<\/p>\n
\nansible@host:\/opt\/ansible\/ansible> echo \"127.0.0.1\" >> \/etc\/ansible\/hosts\n<\/pre>\n
… and then exchange the public ssh key of the ansible user:<\/p>\n
\nansible@host:~> ssh-keygen -t dsa\nansible@host:~> ssh-copy-id -i ~\/.ssh\/id_dsa.pub ansible@127.0.0.1\n<\/pre>\n
Do a functional test:<\/p>\n
\nansible@s1100tap460:~>  ansible all -m ping\n127.0.0.1 | SUCCESS => {\n    \"changed\": false,\n    \"ping\": \"pong\"\n}\n<\/pre>\n
… and your done. Happy deploying …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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