December 22, 2013 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Dec 22 2013

Bootstrapping a new FreeBSD jail host as an Ansible node

6 Comments / ansible, FreeBSD, Open Source / By Dan Langille / December 22, 2013

A few days I configured a new server to be an Ansible node. This will allow my Ansible configuration tool to configure and install software. Installing Ansible and getting it running is not covered by the post. All I show here is how I got a remote server ready to be configured by Ansible. The server in question was running FreeBSD 9.2 with ZFSRoot. Preparing the client for configuration by Ansible Key to […]

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Dec 22 2013

zuul

Leave a Comment / File Systems, FreeBSD, Open Source, ZFS / By Dan Langille / December 22, 2013

This is zuul, the server I’ve been setting up to be a new jail host. I like to store away this type of documentation, in case I need it later. The partitions: The ZFS file systems: The ada0 drive details: And ada1 drive details: And finally, dmesg:

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Dec 22 2013

Ansible versus Salt

3 Comments / ansible, FreeBSD, Open Source, salt / By Dan Langille / December 22, 2013

Over the past few weeks, I worked with two different configuration tools: Salt and Ansible. I started working with Salt. I quickly created a setup for a Salt server and for a Salt minion. The modules I saw looked great. However, I had consistently had trouble converting from the documentation to a practical usage. The examples provided always seemed to be CLI. Taking that and converting it to a SLS file caused me

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