Beaker is open-source software for managing and automating labs of test computers.
This repository contains Ansible rules to manage the Beaker infrastructure.
We strongly recommend using Ansible >= 2.14
. You can install all
necessary requirements via command pip install -r requirements.txt
.
You can use group_vars/all/local_settings.yml
for you local
settings like ansible_become_pass
if your computer storage is
encrypted. Use --ask-sudo-pass
if you don't want to use this
method. Currently Ansible is unable to ask when needed so
the global setting has been disabled in ansible.cfg
.
We use Ansible Vault (ansible-vault
command) to hide some parameters
like service credentials or emails to avoid SPAM.
To make it easy all such files are named '*.vault.yml' and git attributes are defined to make diff-ing and merging easy.
Your config needs to be enhanced to tell git how to handle these files. This is very easy, look at this URL for more info: https://github.com/building5/ansible-vault-tools
Ansible is slow, but there's a nice project to improve its performance. It still has glitches so it's not enabled by default, but it's easy to enable it.
First install the library (it is not yet packaged):
pip install mitogen
Then you just need to run playbooks this way:
ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=mitogen_linear ansible-playbook …