lsyncd

Description

Lsyncd playbook to deploy a master server on CentOS/RHEL 6/7

Important information

• Be sure to set up slave IPs and excludes in vars/main.yml
• If no excludes are required, leave the hash values under lsyncd_excludes commented out, but the hash itself in place.

Example playbook

---
- hosts: all
  vars_files:
  - lsyncd/vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}.yml
  roles:
  - lsyncd

Alternatively, the vars can be overridden in the playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  vars:
  - lsyncd_slaves:
    - { remote_ip: '10.10.10.1' }
    - { remote_ip: '10.10.10.2' }
    - { remote_ip: '10.10.10.1' }
  - lsyncd_excludes:
    - { exclude_dir: 'blah/' }
  vars_files:
  - lsyncd/vars/{{ ansible_os_family }}.yml
  roles:
  - lsyncd

Modifying slaves and excludes

By changing either lsyncd_slaves or lsyncd_excludes hashes (either in vars/main.yml or override fromm the playbook run itself), the master can be modified to add/remove slaves and/or excluded directories by running the playbook with tag 'reconfig':

ansible-playbook -i hosts playbook.yml --tags=reconfig

This will skip all the installation and checking sections, and simply rewrite the config with the values specified in your hash.

Todo

• SSH key to remote servers
• Other OS support