Ansible Nexus Role

Description

ansible-nexus is an Ansible role. Use this role to install Sonatype Nexus.

Provides

1. Latest Nexus server

Requires

1. Ansible 1.7 o higher
2. Ubuntu Server 14.04
3. Vagrant (optional)

Usage

Get the code

$ git clone git@github.com:AdesisNetlife/ansible-nexus.git

The code should reside in the roles directory of ansible ( See ansible documentation for more information on roles ), in a folder named nexus.

Create a host file

Following example make ansible aware of the Vagrant box reachable on localhost port 2222.

$ vi ansible.host

with

[nexus]
127.0.0.1 ansible_ssh_port=2222

Create host specific variables

Make the host_vars directory where ansible.host file is located.

$ mkdir host_vars

Create a file in the newly created directory matching your host.

$ cd host_vars
$ vi 127.0.0.1

with

---

timezone: Europe/Madrid

# NTP servers
ntp_server1: ntp0.ox.ac.uk
ntp_server2: ntp1.ox.ac.uk
ntp_server3: ntp2.ox.ac.uk
ntp_server4: ntp3.ox.ac.uk
ntp_server5: 0.uk.pool.ntp.org
ntp_server6: 1.uk.pool.ntp.org
ntp_server7: ntp.ubuntu.com # fallback

# NEXUS
nexus:
  version: 2.10.0
  unpackaged_version: 2.10.0-02
  base_dir: /opt
  home: /opt/nexus
  data_dir: /data

Run the playbook

First create a playbook including the nexus role, naming it nexus.yml

- name: Nexus
  hosts: nexus
  roles:
    - ansible-nexus

Use ansible.host as inventory. Run the playbook only for the remote host nexus. Use vagrant as the SSH user to connect to the remote host. -k enables the SSH password prompt.

$ ansible-playbook -k -i ansible.host nexus.yml -u vagrant