Ansible Role - xCAT Repository

Installs xCAT package repository.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Role Variables
• Dependencies
• Example Playbook
  • Top-Level Playbook
  • Role Dependency
• License
• Author Information

Requirements

Supports:

• RHEL / CentOS
• Ubuntu

Role Variables

These are the used variables and their defaults:

xcat_version: latest

# whether to enable the repos
xcat_repo_enabled: yes

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Add to requirements.yml:

---

- src: idiv-biodiversity.repo-xcat

...

Download:

$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Top-Level Playbook

Write a top-level playbook:

---

- name: head server
  hosts: head
  vars:
    xcat_version: '2.10'
  roles:
    - role: idiv-biodiversity.repo-xcat
      tags:
        - xcat

...

Role Dependency

Define the role dependency in meta/main.yml:

---

dependencies:

  - role: idiv-biodiversity.repo-xcat
    tags:
      - xcat

...

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by Christian Krause aka wookietreiber at GitHub, HPC cluster systems administrator at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv).