xcat-ansible

Provide an ansible module to deploy xCAT OS image on servers which OS is installed.

Prerequisites

Ansible is installed

yum install ansible

Installing

Install the module and action plugin to corresponding directory

MODULE_LIBRARY=/usr/share/ansible/plugins
mkdir -p ${MODULE_LIBRARY} && cp -rf lib/plugins/* ${MODULE_LIBRARY}

And run ansible-doc to see if the module information could be shown.

ansible-doc xcat_osimage

Running the tests

1, Define ansible inventory

cat /etc/ansible/hosts
[xcat]
10.3.5.29
10.3.5.30

2, Get the xcat osimage inventory

osimage:
  xcat.redhat.full.install:
    basic_attributes:
      arch: ppc64le
      distribution: rhels7.5
      osdistro: rhels7.5-ppc64le
      osname: Linux
    imagetype: linux
    package_selection:
      otherpkgdir:
      - /install/REPO/software
      otherpkglist:
      - /install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/otherpkglist/epel.otherpkglist
      - /install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/otherpkglist/gsa.otherpkglist
      pkgdir:
      - /install/REPO/os/rhels/7.5/rhels7.5-ga/ppc64le
      - /install/REPO/os/rhels/7.5/kernel-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7/ppc64le
      - /install/REPO/software/nvidia/cuda-core/9.2.148-1-396.47/repo/ppc64le
      - /install/REPO/software/nvidia/cuda-dep/repo/ppc64le
      pkglist:
      - /install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/common/pkglist/all.df.pkglist
    provision_mode: install
    role: compute
    scripts:
      postbootscripts:
      - custom.ps/nvidia/postinstall/cuda_power9_setup
      postscripts:
      - custom.ps/mellanox/mlnxofed_ib_install
        -p /install/REPO/software/mellanox/ofed/iso/redhat/7.5/ppc64le/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.3-4.0.7.1-rhel7.5-ppc64le.iso
        -m --add-kernel-support --force -end-
      - custom.ps/checknode
    template: /install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/xcat/install/rhels7.tmpl
schema_version: '1.0'

#Version 2.14.2 (git commit dc2ea9014d1d4e7932104159417f6335cea5fac7, built Mon Jul  2 06:15:47 EDT 2018)

3, run

ansible 10.3.5.30 -m xcat_osimage -a "osimage_src=/install/xcat_clusters/osimage/rhels/xcat/xcat.redhat.full.install.osimage.yaml repo=10.3.5.20 script_root=/install/xcat_clusters"

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

License

This project is licensed under the EPL License - see the LICENSE.md file for details