ansible-role-hcloud-kickstart

This repository contains a role to Kickstart CentOS (or even Red Hat Enterprise Linux) servers on Hetzner Cloud.

An example playbook is available in examples/

Role Variables

To access the server, at least one SSH public key needs to be allowed:

hcloud_ks__ssh_keys:
- name: <my-key-name>
  key: "<my-public-key"

Note that the key with the given name needs to be available in the Hetzner Cloud project.

When not using a custom Kickstart, the server needs a root password as well:

hcloud_ks__crypted_root_password: ""

The Fedora kickstart instructions recommend creating the password by running:

$ python -c 'import crypt; print(crypt.crypt("My Password", "$6$My Salt"))'

Replace My Password by the chosen password and My Salt by a random salt.

Access to Hetzner Cloud requires an API token. This defaults to getting the token from the HCLOUD_TOKEN environment variable.

hcloud_ks__token: "{{ lookup('env', 'HCLOUD_TOKEN') }}"

The server name to kickstart defaults to inventory_hostname_short.

hcloud_ks__server: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"

The CentOS mirror to use defaults to the very fast Hetzner mirror:

hcloud_ks__mirror: "http://mirror.hetzner.de/centos"

The kickstart file that will be used defaults to the included CentOS 7 template:

hcloud_ks__version: "7"
hcloud_ks__kickstart: "centos-{{ hcloud_ks__version }}.ks"

Should the server have a drive that is not SATA, the drive used to install the system on can be configured:

hcloud_ks__disk: "sda"