[Container-tools] Reusable Ansible scripts for setting up Atomic on CentOS/7

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 09/01/2015 07:11 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath <rtnpro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> One advantage of this more modular approach is that the individual
>>> roles could become candidates for submitting to Ansible Galaxy:
>>> https://galaxy.ansible.com/intro#share
>>>
>>> The other larger bundles could then potentially be updated to pull the
>>> latest versions of the roles from Galaxy, rather than direct from
>>> GitHub: https://galaxy.ansible.com/intro#download
>> Thanks Nick, for validating my proof of concept work :)
> So, if we're to work on writing reusable Ansible scripts for Docker,
> Kubernetes, Atomic, etc., should it be only CentOS/Fedora/RHEL
> specific or generic? I prefer to write generic Ansible scripts, which
> will work for RedHat and Debian distribution families. However, if
> we're to release the ansible scripts on Ansible Galaxy under the
> banner of CentOS, would it be proper to include scripts for Debian
> too, then? Also, having generic scripts for multiple distribution
> families would increase the maintenance overhead. However, if we
> undertake the pain of maintaining the scripts, it will really be
> helpful for the Linux devops community, in general, no matter where
> they use RedHat or Debian based distribution, to use the Ansible
> scripts, which are developed and maintained by us.
>
> Regards,
> rtnpro

What about making the ansible playbooks part of 
adb-atomic-developer-bundle [1]? I am sure some % of developers might 
not want to have Vagrant and prefer ansible. This would be an 
alternative for them.

I would welcome this as an PR to adb.

[1] https://github.com/projectatomic/adb-atomic-developer-bundle

Thanks,
Lala