Description

Bash script that uses a stack of Ansible roles to kick-start Debian-like systems.

When executed this script performs the following actions:

• Installs Ansible.
• If the -u (username) parameter is present, the specified user is created and added to the sudoers group.
• If the -w (password) parameter is present, the specified password is assigned to the created user.
• Configures a very basic text-mode system.
• If the -d (desktop) parameter is present, the gnome desktop enviroment is installed.
• If the -x (extra role) parameter is present, the specified extra Ansible role is installed and included, additionally if the -v (extra variables) parameter is present, the variable keys and values specified are passed to the extra role.
• If the -r (remove) parameter is present, Ansible is uninstalled at the end of the kickstart process.
• For more fine-grained configuration, you can specify a configuration file using the -c (configuration) parameter, this parameter is used as the configuration variable and passed to the constrict0r.constructor role.

When a configuration file is specified, the expand variable for the constrict0r.constructor role is setted to true always so when writing configuration files, be sure to use the item_path and item_expand attributes if you need to change the default behaviour (see expand attribute).

For more information see: constructor role.