DIMS Ansible playbooks v 2.8.0

This document (version 2.8.0) describes the DIMS Ansible playbooks (ansible-dims-playbooks for short) repository contents.

Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Installation Steps
• 2. Ansible and Configuration Management
  • 2.1. Ansible fundamentals
  • 2.2. Variables
  • 2.3. Configuration and Customization of ansible and ansible-playbook
    • 2.3.1. Controlling account, SSH port, etc.
  • 2.4. Ansible Best Practices and Related Documentation
• 3. Bootstrapping a VM Host as an Ansible Controller
• 4. Customizing a Private Deployment
  • 4.1. Cookiecutter
    • 4.1.1. Top Level Files and Directories
    • 4.1.2. The dims-new-repo Cookiecutter
  • 4.2. Populating the Private Configuration Repository
• 5. Testing System Components
  • 5.1. Organizing Bats Tests
  • 5.2. Organizing tests in DIMS Ansible Playbooks Roles
  • 5.3. Running Bats Tests Using the DIMS test.runner
  • 5.4. Controlling the Amount and Type of Output
    • 5.4.1. Using DIMS Bash functions in Bats tests
• 6. Debugging with Ansible and Vagrant
  • 6.1. Debugging Ansible
    • 6.1.1. Examining Variables
    • 6.1.2. Debugging Filter Logic
    • 6.1.3. Developing Custom Jinja Filters
• 7. Upgrading and Updating Components
  • 7.1. Updating PyCharm Community Edition
  • 7.2. Identifying When Rebooting is Needed
• 8. License

Section author: Dave Dittrich dittrich@u.washington.edu

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