ansible-scriptbox

Ansible playbook for setting up Jenkins as a script hosting box.

What Does This Playbook Do Exactly?

• installs and configures Python and virtualenvs
• installs and configures rbenv and ruby
• installs perl modules
• deploys citrixcc-taskmaster script
• deploys vmware-rbscripts

Configuration

Example group config file group_vars/prod:

---
common:
    jenkins_home: /var/lib/jenkins
    scripts_dir: /opt/scripts
    ruby_version: 2.1.7
    oracle_instantclient_packages:
        - oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm
        - oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm
        - oracle-instantclient11.2-odbc-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm
        - oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm
citrixcc_taskmaster:
    git_repo_url: "https://github.com/osu-sig/citrixcc-taskmaster.git"
    version: changeme_to_sha1_hash_or_tag_name
    endpoint_base: "https://cmdctrhost.someplace.edu/nitro/v1/"
    username: changeme
    password: changeme
vmware_rbscripts:
    git_repo_url: "https://github.com/osu-sig/vmware-rbscripts.git"
    version: changeme_to_sha1_hash_or_tag_name

Configuration for Perl Environments

DBD::Oracle requires Oracle instant client to be installed. Before running this playbook, download the required packages from Oracle for basic, devel, odbc, and sqlplus and place them in /tmp/ on your local machine. Then, update the appropriate group_vars file with the correct filenames.

Inventory

We have separated production and staging hosts into different inventory files:

• inventory/prod
• inventory/stage

Example inventory file:

[stage]
jenk-vs01.someplace.edu
jenk-slave-vs01.someplace.edu

[ruby]
jenk-vs01.someplace.edu

[python]
jenk-vs01.someplace.edu

[perl]
jenk-slave-vs01.someplace.edu

Usage

Add New Master or Slave

Assumptions:

• You have a CentOS7 box that has been bootstrapped with the ansible-master playbook.
• If this box is going to be the master server, it should already be running Jenkins 2. (For best results, use our ansible playbook to install Jenkins.)

1. Add the hostname of the new box to the appropriate inventory file.
2. Run ansible-playbook on the appropriate inventory file, limited to the new hostname:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/stage site.yml --limit newhost.someplace.edu

IMPORTANT: If you do not limit by hostname, the playbook will run on all hosts in the environment, which is probably not what you want.

Update Script Deployments on Hosts

Run ansible-playbook on the appropriate inventory file:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/stage deploy.yml

Install a Specific Language Environment on a Specific Host

By default, this playbook will not install any language environments on hosts. You can choose specific environments to install by editing the inventory file. See example above.

Allowed language environment group names are: ruby, python, perl