homelab/ansible/README.md

Ansible

This project contains inventory, var, and playbook files to administrate the homelab.

Useful Ad-Hoc Commands

ansible all -m ping # ping all hosts
ansible all -a "free -h" # won't work on BSD
ansible all -m apt -a "name=inxi state=latest update_cache=true" --become # install inxi
ansible all -m shell -a "inxi -b" # run inxi

Running on WSL

Running a proper ansible install on WSL requires updating to Debian 11.

1. Open Powershell as Administrator
2. Install Debian with wsl.exe --install --distribution Debian
3. Launch the instance with wsl.exe -d Debian
4. Change the apt repositories with sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and update it to look like this:

   deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
   deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
   deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
   

5. Clean and update the cache with sudo apt clean && sudo apt update
6. Upgrade all packages with sudo apt full-upgrade
7. Remove dangling packages with sudo apt autoremove
8. Log out with exit, shutdown wsl with wsl.exe --shutdown, then start it back up with wsl.exe -d Debian.
9. Make sure everything worked with cat /etc/os-release