This Ansible role provided the Application base (disques, LVM, FS, Directories, users, etc ...)

This role :

• Configures Applications disques, lvms, files systemes
• Create Applications groups, Users, etc ...
• Configure Applications directories

$ molecule --version
molecule <green>4.0.3</green> using python 3.10 
    ansible:2.13.5
    delegated:4.0.3 from molecule
    docker:2.1.0 from molecule_docker requiring collections: community.docker>=3.0.2 ansible.posix>=1.4.0

Requiered Variables

Role Variables

---

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml)

The application Dictionary

---

This dictionary gathers all Application variables.
It should be declare on inventory group_vars.
This dictionary is mendatory !
Warning ! Only One application must be set on this dictonary ( Future update should improve that ! )
(This dictionary vars should normaly be provided by the Configuration management database (CMDB))

    application:
      - name: "My Test Application"
        tag: APTEST
        id: aptest
       comment: "My TEST Application"

application.name This var is mendatory !

The application Name.

application.tag This var is mendatory !

This is the application's TAG.
It's suppose to be a capital quadrigram on my organisation.
But your free to use what you wanted !

application.id This var is mendatory !

This is the application's id.
It's supposed to be a tiny quadrigram equal to the application.tag but in tiny.

application.comment This var is mendatory !

The application Name and Description

application_groups_create This var is mendatory !

This bolean variable used to enable or disable groups creation.
This variable should be declare on inventory group_vars.
This variable is mendatory !
If this variable is set to true you must set the application_groups Dictionary !

The application_groups dictionaries.

---

This dictionary is used, ang group created only if the application_groups_create var is set to true. This dictionary gathers all Application Groups variables.
This dictionary should be declare on inventory group_vars.
This dictionary is mendatory if application_groups_create is set to true !
(This dictionary vars should normaly be provided by the Configuration management database (CMDB))

    application_groups:
      - name: groupe_one
      - name: groupe_two
      - name: groupe_three

application_groups.name This var is mendatory !

The groups name.

The application_users dictionaries.

---

This dictionary gathers all Application Users variables.
This dictionary should be declare on inventory group_vars.
This dictionary is mendatory !
(This dictionary vars should normaly be provided by the Configuration management database (CMDB))

    application_users:
     - login: "user_one"
       comment: "This is User One account"
       home_directory: "/app/user_one"
       shell: "/usr/sbin/nologin"
       group: "user_one"
       groups:
         - groupe_one
         - groupe_two
     - login: "user_two"
       comment: "This is User Two account"
       home_directory: "/app/user_two"
       shell: "/usr/sbin/nologin"
       group: "user_two"
       groups:
         - groupe_three

application_users.login This var is mendatory !

The user's login.

application_users.comment This var is mendatory !

The user's description.

application_users.home_directory This var is mendatory !

The user's home directory.

application_users.shell This var is mendatory !

The user's default shell

application_users.group This var is mendatory !

The user's default group

application_users.groups This var is mendatory !

The user's extra groups

The application_directories Dictionary

---

This dictionary gathers all Application Directories variables.
This dictionary should be declare on inventory group_vars.
This dictionary is mendatory !
(This dictionary vars should normaly be provided by the Configuration management database (CMDB))

   application_directories:
     - path: "/app/APTEST/application"
       owner: "user_one"
       group: "user_one"
       mode: 755
     - path: "/app/APTEST/log"
       owner: "user_one"
       group: "user_one"
       mode: 755
     - path: "/app/APTEST/data"
       owner: "user_one"
       group: "user_one"
       mode: 755

application_directories.path This var is mendatory !

The directory path.

application_directories.owner This var is mendatory !

The directory owner.

application_directories.group This var is mendatory !

The directory group.

application_directories.mode This var is mendatory !

The directory mode.

application_lvms_create This var is mendatory !

This bolean variable used to enable or disable lvm creation.
This variable should be declare on inventory group_vars.
This variable is mendatory !
If this variable is set to true you must set the application_vgs Dictionary !

The application_vgs Dictionary

---

This dictionary gathers all Application Volume Groupe's (VGs) variables.
This dictionary should be declare on inventory group_vars.
Volumes groups are created by picking disk's path on disks dictonaries if disks.tag equal to vgs.tag. This dictionary is mendatory if application_lvms_create is set to true !
(This dictionary vars should normaly be provided by the Configuration management database (CMDB))

   application_vgs:
     - name : "vg_app"
       tag: "APTEST"
       lvs :
       - name: "lv_app"
         size: '10g'
         fstype: 'xfs'
         owner: "user_one"
         group: "user_one"
         mode: 755
         mount_point: /app/APTEST/application
       - name: "lv_log"
         size: '10g'
         fstype: 'xfs'
         owner: "user_one"
         group: "user_one"
         mode: 755
         mount_point: /app/APTEST/log
       - name: "lv_data"
         size: '10g'
         fstype: 'xfs'
         owner: "user_one"
         group: "user_one"
         mode: 755
         mount_point: /app/APTEST/data

The disks Dictionary

---

This dictionary gathers all host Physical volumes variables.
This dictionary should be declare on inventory host_vars.
This dictionary is mendatory if application_lvms_create is set to true !
(This dictionary vars should normaly be provided by the Configuration management database (CMDB))

   disks:
     - path: '/dev/disk/azure/scsi1/lun1'
       tag: APTEST
     - path: '/dev/sdc'
       tag: APTEST
     - path: '/dev/sde'
       tag: AFFFF

• ansible.builtin
• ansible.posix

    - hosts: server
      roles:
        - { role: shmii.app-common }

RHEL_ACCOUNT_USER='<MyRedhatAccountUser>' RHEL_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD='<MyRedhatAccountPassword>'  molecule check

/!\ To validate this role with "molecule" from Ubuntu @ WSL/WSL2 it is necessary to create the folder /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd on the host linux subsystem. This directory is necessary for some os (RHEL9, Rocky9, etc...) and not existing on local Ubuntu WSL sub Systeme !

$ sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd

Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris, et quae sunt Dei Deo !

• Jeff GEERLING ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-geerling-086bb2a/ --- https://github.com/geerlingguy)
• Stephane ROBERT ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanerobert1/ --- https://blog.stephane-robert.info)

• Ansible - Automation for everyone : ( https://www.ansible.com )
• Ansible - Ansible Documentation : ( https://docs.ansible.com )
• Molecule - Ansible Molecule Documentation : ( https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ )
• Molecule - Ansible Molecule Community Documentation : ( https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule)
• Molecule/Ansible : Stephane Robert's Blog : ( https://blog.stephane-robert.info/tags/ansible/ )

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007

This role was created in 2022 by [Thomas CHALMEL] (https://www.thomas.chalmel.org/).