I started my Ansible series really with the intention of getting to know Git/GitHub a bit better but Ansible was so awesome I couldn’t put it down. Now that I have built a couple of example playbooks its time to “commit” those into GitHub. For starters, we need Git/GitHub installed on our system. In my case I am doing everything from my Ansible server, though you may want to do this on another system. Thanks to yum, the install is pretty easy
yum install git
I had already run this on my Ansible server so I could “pull” the Ansible code. Now I want to setup my username so:
git config --global user.name "yourusername"
Next register your email account for your GitHub account
git config --global user.email "youremail"
Now on to authentication, it’s high time I stop using passwords for everything and setup SSH keys so, lets do that. To create the public key enter:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email@example.com"
- While logged in as root it will save to /root/.ssh/id_rsa)
- Next enter your secure password
- With the key now created, log into GitHub and click on the gear icon (Settings) in the upper right corner
- Click on SSH keys
- Click the add SSH keys button
- Provide a title such as “ansible VM” or whatever used to identify the computer
- Back in your terminal window type
less /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- Copy the contents of the file and paste it into the Key text box
- Click the Add key button
- Back in your terminal window type
ssh -T git@github.com
- Accept the key from github.com
- Enter the pass phrase for your key
- You should now be logged into GitHub with your keys!
Login for GitHub via SSH key
- Now, switch the to folder where you are saving your Ansible playbooks
- Type git init
- Type git add .
- Type git commit -m ‘playbooks’
- Find the URL from your Git repository (create one if you haven’t), make sure to click on SSH, not HTTPS and copy that
- Type git remote add origin git@github.com:user/repository.git
- Type git remote -v
- Type git push origin master then enter the pass phrase for your SSH key
Now if I go to my repository, I can see my .yml files checked in!
GitHub files checked into repository
From now on, as we create or update our playbooks we can check them into GitHub for safe keeping and sharing!
