Hi Edward, the ansible inventory is not to be confused with the system host file.
Put the ansible files anywhere you like, eg: in your home directory. The procedure is documented step by step here: https://github.com/openwisp/ansible-openwisp2#usage-tutorial Federico Il ven 24 nov 2017, 05:58 Edward Um <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Hi Fredrico, > > Could you clarify where I create a the "hosts" file? its confusing as > there already is a hosts file in /etc > > Thanks, > > On Monday, 27 February 2017 12:24:51 UTC, Federico Capoano wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I wanted to try this for a while, so after another thread was started >> regarding how to install OpenWISP on a raspberry pi2 >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/openwisp/411bj3RUwbE/RHpPjE0iCAAJ>, I >> decided to finally give it a try. >> >> I have just installed successfully OpenWISP 2 on a raspberry pi 3 which >> is flashed with raspbian jessie without any issue. Since raspbian is based >> on debian, I assumed it would work straightaway and I'm glad I have found >> out I was right. >> >> The procedure is the same as the documented one >> <https://github.com/openwisp/ansible-openwisp2#usage-tutorial>, but I >> will describe it here anyway to help those who'll find this post. >> >> Create an inventory file called "hosts" with the following contents: >> >> [pi] >> <IP-ADDRESS-HERE> >> >> >> Replace <IP-ADDRESS-HERE> with your raspberry pi's IP address or even >> better a hostname if you have set up a DNS record that points to your pi. >> >> Now create a file playbook.yml with the following contents: >> >> - hosts: >> - pi >> become: true >> roles: >> - openwisp2 >> vars: >> openwisp2_shared_secret: <ANY-VALUE-OF-YOUR-LIKING-HERE> >> >> >> Replace <ANY-VALUE-OF-YOUR-LIKING-HERE> with a password/secret you want >> to use. >> >> ansible-playbook -i hosts -l pi -u pi --ask-pass --ask-sudo-pass playbook >> .yml >> >> The process was a bit slow during the first steps of installing the >> dependencies, but after that everything ran quickly as usual >> >> The web UI of OpenWISP 2 runs smoothly but apart from a few simple test >> I did not perform any stress test. >> >> I hope it will be useful. >> Federico >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenWISP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
