Ansible Server

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Tested on:

• Raspberry pi OS Trixie (Raspberry PI 5, aarch64)
• Ubuntu 24.04 (VPS, amd64)

Preface/Notes

Before starting, a few things must be configured on the OS.

Ubuntu/Debian

apt install -y git python3-virtualenv python3-dev python3-wheel libxml2-dev \
 libxslt-dev libssl-dev linux-headers-generic build-essential

Setting up the Virtual Environment

Set up the virtual environment as follows:

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install wheel
pip install ansible

Every time you work with Ansible, source the virtualenv (source .venv/bin/activate)

Downloading the required ansible collections from Ansible Galaxy

Download the required Ansible collections from galaxy by running the following command

ansible-galaxy install -r collections/requirements.yml

Configuration

Username can be changed from jeffrey to whatever you like in inventory/host_vars/localhost/user.yml GRUB password must be reconfigured by yourself in inventory/host_Vars/localhost/vault.yml by creating a new vault:

Create a new yaml file with the following content:

inventory/host_vars/localhost/vault.yml:

Please read through roles for an explanation on what it all does.

ansible-playbook playbooks/provision.yml

Sources

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