Utilities and wrappers for Ansible, Terraform and Packer for improved efficiency and security.

The toolset defines some standards and a project structure that then is used to provide simplified tools to the user and it's targeted at command-line users. The main features are:

• Simplified command lines to run Ansible, just specify the target and the playbook
• Command line autocompletion for the tools that search on the Ansible code
• Powerful and clean YAML-based dynamic inventory
• Clean directory structure to manage different scenarios
• Management of only one or multiple environments
• Centralized configuration file for all the tools
• Security checks for sensitive files (git hooks, file system permissions)
• Using GIT on your project is the foundation of the tools

The package installs the following binaries:

• deploy: wrapper to run Ansible deployments.
• vault: wrapper to run ansible-vault, comes in 2 flavours (vault-host and vault-group).
• inventory: custom dynamic inventory script to use YAML.
• inventory-aws: custom inventory script to fetch information from AWS.
• packit: utility script to provide Packer with build information (work in progress)

The package installs autocompletion for:

• deploy
• vault

The package installs system wide GIT hooks to perform checks on the repository. The hooks have to be linked manually when desired.

• commit-msg
• pre-commit
• pre-push

The package requires the following additional python packages:

• cfutils
• configparser2
• ansible from version 2.0.0 up to version 2.3.x

Install using PIP:

sudo pip install https://github.com/ColOfAbRiX/python-autolibs/archive/master.zip

The autocompletion scripts need to be loaded at session startup, usually adding:

#!/bin/bash
source "$(which support-deploy)"
source "$(which support-vault)"

to the ~/.bashrc file in the home directory or to a .sh file inside /etc/profile.d for a system wide configuration.

The tools use a configuration file in the GIT repository root named .repoconfig. This file contains a set of parameters to customize the project structure and the behaviour of the tools.

The example file can be found here .repoconfig and it contains descriptions of all the options together with their default values.

Wrapper for ansible-playbook and deployment management.

deploy [-h] [--skip-signature] playbook target [filter] [ansible [ansible ...]]

• playbook: Name of the Ansible Playbook found anywhere in the playbooks directory.
• target: Target of the run. It can be a usual Ansible inventory or an executable file as dynamic inventory; if a relative path then it will be searched in various default locations.
• filter: An Ansible pattern that will be used to further filter the target hosts, it's equivalent to the Ansible -l option.
• ansible: These options will be passed, as they are, directly to Ansible.

• -h, --help: Show this help message and exit
• --skip-signature: If present, it will skip the writing and updating of the deployment signature.

• automatic secret file
• environments management
• dynamic inventory use

vault-host [-h] {create,decrypt,edit,encrypt,rekey,view} environment target [ansible [ansible ...]] vault-group [-h] {create,decrypt,edit,encrypt,rekey,view} environment target [ansible [ansible ...]]

• {create,decrypt,edit,encrypt,rekey,view}: Vault action
• environment: The environment to target.
• target The group or host target.
• ansible These options will be passed directly to Ansible as they are.

• -h, --help: Show this help message and exit

MIT

Fabrizio Colonna