On 01/27/2015 10:34 AM, James wrote:
> Alec Ten Harmsel <alec <at> alectenharmsel.com> writes:
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>> I'm sorry to spam gentoo-user, but I'm not sure who else would be
>> interested in something like this. Also, feel free to email me with bugs
>> in the code or documentation, or open something in GitHub's issue tracker.
> One man's spam generates maps for another.....
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> So my map of "todo" on ansible is all about common gentoo installs. [1]
> Let's take the first and most easy example "the clone". I have a gentoo
> workstation install that I want to replicated onto identical hardware (sort
> of like a disk to disk "dd" install).
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> So how would I impress the bossman by actually saving admin time
> on how to use the bossman to create (install from scratch + pxe?)
> a clone.
Assuming that disks are formatted, a stage3 has been freshly extracted,
bossman is installed, and the role/config files are on a mounted
filesystem, it should be similar to the role below:
file /etc/portage/make.conf root:root 644
! emerge-webrsync
! emerge --sync
file /etc/locale.gen root:root 600
! locale-gen
pkg sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
file /usr/src/linux/.config root:root 644
! make -C /usr/src/linux all modules_install install
pkg sys-boot/grub
! grub-install /dev/sda # I can't remember all the options needed here
file /etc/default/grub
! grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# Generating /etc/fstab using something similar to Arch's `genfstab`
would be much better
file /etc/fstab root:root 644
# Root password
file /etc/shadow root:root 640
# Logger
pkg app-admin/syslog-ng
# Network
pkg net-misc/dhcpcd
enable dhcpcd
# For remote access
pkg net-misc/openssh
file /etc/ssh/sshd_config root:root 600
file /etc/ssh/known_hosts root:root 600
# Other sshd files...
enable sshd
There are a ton of assumptions that make this work; if installing
manually, the installer is responsible, and if installing from PXE, this
stuff would have to be baked into the ISO.
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> Gotta recipe for that using bossman?
> Or is that an invalid direction for bossman?
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> curiously,
> James
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> [1]
> http://blog.jameskyle.org/2014/08/automated-stage3-gentoo-install-using-ansible/
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Automating the bootstrapping of a node is reasonably complicted, even
harder on Gentoo than on RHEL. This is the type of thinking I want to
do, and I'm working on doing this with my CentOS box that runs ssh,
Jenkins, postgres, and Redmine.
Alec
