Getting Started with Ansible¶

Python Requirement¶

The following requires that Python3 is installed. Python 3.12 is currently what is set as a standard. Install Python and required packages with the following command:

sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deadsnakes-ubuntu-ppa-noble.sources...

Provision a new Virtual Machine¶

Use these standard operating procedure to provision a virtual machine. Note that currently this only supports an Ubuntu virtual machine.

Prep¶

1. Create Inventory file

[vms]
host-1 vms_proxmox_node=pve-1 vms_clone=false...

Linux Utilities Ansible Playbooks¶

The following list playbooks that are used to provide troubleshooting information when executed against a Linux host.

Deploy an Ansible Control Node¶

Use the following steps to deploy deploy an Ansible control node. Use the same steps to update an existing deployment.

Update Version¶

TBD

The SemaphoreUI releases are available in https://github.com/semaphoreui/semaphore/releases....

Updating Proxmox Cluster¶

The Proxmox Cluster consists of three nodes, pve-0, pve-1, pve-2. The update is performed individually for each node. Perform the update in the order of, pve-2, pve-1, pve-0.

This process updates operating system components as well as Linbit....

Use the following command to to list all virtual machines hosted in a Proxmox node. Connect to the node's console and perform the following

for vm in $(sudo qm list | awk '{print $1}' | grep -Eo '[0-9]{1,3}'); do echo $vm;done