motdotla / ansible-pi

Quickly setup your Raspberry Pi - particularly WIFI settings.

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ansible-pi

Quickly setup your Raspberry Pi - particularly WIFI settings.

There is a complete guide to setting up your raspberry pi without a keyboard and mouse that goes along with this repo.

Installation

Clone and setup the ansible script.

git clone https://github.com/motdotla/ansible-pi.git
cd ansible-pi
cp hosts.example hosts
cp wpa_supplicant.conf.example wpa_supplicant.conf

Edit the wpa_supplicant.conf and hosts files.

Deploy using ansible (install instructions for ansible are in requirements below).

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts --ask-pass --become -c paramiko

Requirements

Ansible is required.

Installing Ansible on Mac

cd /tmp
git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
cd ./ansible
git checkout v1.4.3
sudo make install
sudo easy_install jinja2 
sudo easy_install pyyaml
sudo easy_install paramiko

History

This project was originally built when trying out my first Raspberry Pi. The setup process was not as easy as I wanted.

ansible-pi's Issues

Reboot task fails

Pushed the config changes and updated the apt packages just fine, but failed to reboot at the end.

fatal: [192.168.1.80]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["/sbin/reboot", "-t", "now"], "delta": "0:00:00.045698", "end": "2016-02-18 11:20:00.375066", "failed": true, "rc": 1, "start": "2016-02-18 11:20:00.329368", "stderr": "/sbin/reboot: invalid option -- 't'", "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": [], "warnings": []}

You don't need the -t option for reboot, I believe that /sbin/reboot would suffice in the Playbook?

Requirement http://www.ansibleworks.com fail

Hi, the site not work anymore, could you show us another source for requirement ?

ansible_ssh_host variable not working in local_action: wait_for

There is an issue open for this with Ansible ansible/ansible#21269

A workaround is suggested here ansible/ansible#14237 (comment) which worked for me

- set_fact:
    real_ansible_host: "{{ ansible_host }}"

...

- name: "Wait for Raspberry PI to come back"
  local_action: wait_for host={{ real_ansible_host }} port=22 state=started delay=10
  become: false

Host Unreachable

Hi,

I'm running this on macOS 10.12.5, python 2.7.13, ansible 2.3.0.0. I get this error when I try to run the playbook:

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts --ask-pass --become -c paramiko
SSH password:

PLAY [Ansible Playbook for configuring brand new Raspberry Pi] *********************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [192.168.1.xxx]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "[Errno None] Unable to connect to port 22 on 192.168.1.xxx", "unreachable": true}
to retry, use: --limit @/Users/[username]/Downloads/ansible-pi/playbook.retry

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
192.168.1.xxx : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=1 failed=0