Ansible

The BlueChi project offers an Ansible collection for effortless provisioning of BlueChi on systems.

To utilize Ansible on a CentOS host and install the eclipse_bluechi.bluechi collection from Ansible Galaxy, use to the following steps.

Install Ansible on CentOS

Ensure that Ansible is installed.

sudo dnf install ansible

Install Eclipse BlueChi collection

ansible-galaxy collection install eclipse_bluechi.bluechi

Verify Installation

You can verify that the collection has been installed by checking the installed collections:

ansible-galaxy collection list | grep -i bluechi
eclipse_bluechi.bluechi       1.0.0

Create inventory.yml

Define FQDN for the controller and agents as showed below.

all:
  hosts:
  children:
    bluechi_controller:
      hosts:
        controller.example.com:
    bluechi_agents:
      hosts:
        agent-1.example.com:
        agent-2.example.com:

Install bluechi in the machines listed in the inventory file

PLEASE NOTE: Ansible assumes you are using SSH keys to connect to remote machines.

As example, to set up SSH agent to avoid retyping passwords, you can do:

ssh-agent bash
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Finally execute the ansible-playbook to run the installation process.

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml eclipse_bluechi.bluechi.install