• layout: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_best_practices.html
• network: https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/KVM_with_bonding_and_VLAN_tagging_setup_on_Ubuntu_12.04.html

• develop module: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/developing_modules.html
  • http://blog.toast38coza.me/custom-ansible-module-hello-world/
  • https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-apache-using-ansible-on-ubuntu-14-04

• https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/KVM_with_bonding_and_VLAN_tagging_setup_on_Ubuntu_12.04.html
• https://github.com/bennojoy/ansible-roles/tree/master/network
• http://docs.openstack.org/developer/openstack-ansible/mitaka/install-guide/configure-networking.html
• Networking:
  • http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking

• http://www.jinkit.com/openstack-ansible/
• https://cunninghamshane.com/openstack-in-containers-install-and-upgrade/

• Best practices: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_best_practices.html#directory-layout
• Develope module: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/developing_modules.html
• ansible-galaxy: requirements.yml http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25230376/how-to-automatically-install-ansible-galaxy-roles
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33857134/checking-for-multiple-conditions-using-when-on-single-task-in-ansible
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22758925/abort-execution-of-remaining-task-if-certain-condition-is-failed
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26188055/ansible-understanding-a-compound-conditional-when-statement
• tap tun: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2016-January/msg00053.html

• Ansible module is a .py file implementing the module. It must be placed in playbookdir/library, or playbookdir/roles/role_name/library, or in a directory specified in “library=” in ansible.cfg
• There is currently no way to pull module from git and place in library folders. This is useful when i.e., forking available module for development. However, ansible-galaxy enables installation of roles from git, etcs. One way that make sense is to fork the module and turn it into role, which can be installed by ansible-galaxy in requirements.yml file.
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34918058/using-ansible-modules-from-git-repository
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34901858/how-to-keep-local-roles-separated-from-the-ones-loaded-from-ansible-galaxy/34902605#34902605

How to do that?:

Clone a module e.g., nmcli, and copy meta/main.yml to make it a role :

tree library_ext/ansible-nmcli-b3936faaedd4c0ab7f091806460253eff508e816
library_ext/ansible-nmcli-b3936faaedd4c0ab7f091806460253eff508e816
├── library
│   └── nmcli_dev.py
├── meta
│   └── main.yml
├── playbook-add.yml
├── playbook-del.yml
├── README.md
└── testing_scripts
    ├── add-connection.py
    ├── list-connections.py
    ├── list-con-simple.py
    ├── list-devices.py
    ├── test-dbus.py
    └── timetest.py

Now it can be installed by ansible-galaxy in to library_ext folder:

# cat requirements.yml 
---
- src:  https://github.com/thuydang/ansible_nmcli_role.git
  path: ./library_ext/

# vim ansible.cfg so moudles in subdir are searched for by ansible
# the trick is putting library in the path. This should be supported by default but is currently a bug:
library        = /usr/share/ansible:library_ext:library #https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/16561#issuecomment-230146841
# vim ansible.cfg to add library_ext to list of roles folders
roles_path    = library_ext:roles_ext

# install the role (library) with ansible-galaxy
[dang@dai142 ansible_quicklabs]$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml 
- extracting ansible_nmcli_role to /mnt/nfv/ansible_quicklabs_ws/ansible_quicklabs/library_ext/ansible_nmcli_role
- ansible_nmcli_role was installed successfully

copy meta to make it detected as a role

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30869519/how-to-traverse-a-nested-dict-structure-with-ansible

Step: Enable debug

[dang@dai142 ansible]$ cat vfoss_dev_postgres_setup_playbook.yml 
---
- name: Install and configure postgresql replica sets
  strategy: debug       <---------------- this is it
  hosts: vfoss_dev
  become: true
  remote_user: root
  vars_files:
    - 'vars/vars_vfoss_dev.yml'
  roles:
    - { role: ansible-role-postgresql }

Step: Make it failed then the debug will kickin

[dang@dai142 ansible]$ cat roles/ansible-role-postgresql/tasks/main.yml 
---
- name: Installing postgresql
  include: 'install.yml'

- debug: msg={{ postgresql_data_dir }}

- debug: var={{ postgresql_master  }}
- name: DEBUG postgresql_master    <------------------- this is it
  fail: msg="debug"
  when: (postgresql_master is undefined) or (not postgresql_master|bool) #or true
  #when: not postgresql_master|bool

- name: Configuring the master
  include: 'configure-master.yml'
  when: postgresql_master

Step: Playbook Debuger console

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_debugger.html

p task/vars/host/result : Print values used to execute a module:

task.args[key] = value : Update module’s argument.

  task.args['name'] = 'bash'
  

vars[key] = value : Update vars.

  vars['pkg_name'] = 'bash'
  (debug) vars['postgresql_streaming_slaves'] = []
  (debug) r
  

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