Ansible Core Collection

C2 Platform generic roles that are used by all or some other roles. These roles typically don’t create services / processes on target node but are dependencies e.g. packages required by those roles. Or these roles help with Ansible provisioning for example offers generic Ansible modules, filters etc.

Roles

• linux  manage of Linux systems by leveraging +112 modules from the the ansible.builtin, ansible.posix, and community.general collections.
• server_update  update yum / apt cache and /or upgrade packages.
• bootstrap  bootstrap your nodes with os and pip packages.
• mount  configure / manage mount points.
• secrets  workaround for lack of support for vault when using AWX.
• os_trusts  Manage OS trust store.
• cacerts2  create your own smallCA.
• cacerts2_client  generate ownca certificates.
• apt_repo  add APT keys, repositories.
• yum  add / remove Yum repositories.
• users  manage Linux accounts.
• service  create systemd services.
• java  install java, manage keystores.
• facts  gather facts.
• lcm  facts for LCM operations for other roles to build upon.
• lvm  manage data disks for roles using LVM  .
• rest  interact with REST webservices.
• postgresql_tasks  include tasks for PostgreSQL database operations.
• postgresql_client  .
• manage_service  orchestrate stop, start and restart over multiple nodes.
• env_test  network test role.
• facts_cmdb  gather facts for ansible-cmdb.
• vagrant_hosts  manage hosts file on Windows and Linux guests.

Modules and Filters

For detailed information on the available modules and filters within this collection, please refer to the Ansible Galaxy  page.

You can of course also use the ansible-doc command to explore the documentation:

ansible-doc -t module --list c2platform.core
ansible-doc -t filter --list c2platform.core
ansible-doc -t filter <FILTER_NAME>
ansible-doc -t module <MODULE_NAME>

Using this collection

Before using the collection, you need to install it with the Ansible Galaxy command-line tool:

ansible-galaxy collection install c2platform.core

You can include it in a requirements.yml file and install it via ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: c2platform.core

See Ansible Using collections  for more details.