mrlesmithjr / ansible-jenkins

• ansible-jenkins
  • Requirements
  • Role Variables
  • Dependencies
  • Example Playbook
  • Vagrant Usage
    • Spinning up Vagrant test environment
    • Tearing down Vagrant test environment
  • License
  • Author Information

ansible-jenkins

An Ansible Role to Install/Configure Jenkins CI

Requirements

None

Role Variables

defaults/main.yml

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: all
  become: true
  vars:
  roles:
    - role: ansible-jenkins
  tasks:

Vagrant Usage

Included is a Vagrant test environment to easily spinup. This environment is very useful for quickly spinning up a usable Jenkins CI platform. It is also very useful for learning how to provision a Jenkins CI platform using Ansible.

Spinning up Vagrant test environment

To spin up this test environment simply execute:

cd Vagrant
vagrant up

Once the provisioning is complete you can then connect to the Jenkins WebUI using your browser of choice and begin doing some cool stuff.

NOTE: This setup is an insecure setup without any authentication enabled and it should be treated as purely a playground.

Tearing down Vagrant test environment

Once you are done using this test environment and are ready to tear it all down simply execute:

cd Vagrant
./cleanup.sh

License

MIT

Author Information

Larry Smith Jr.

• @mrlesmithjr
• EverythingShouldBeVirtual
• mrlesmithjr [at] gmail.com

ansible-jenkins's Issues

Fix formatting of `README.md`

Need to fix formatting from previous issue #7 to cleanup the table of contents.

Cleanup formatting of default variables

Need to cleanup the formatting of defaults/main.yml and also update README.md

Add `become: true` to proper tasks

Need to add become: true to the proper task which required sudo access to execute the task.

Updated Galaxy license info to match licensing

Need to update meta/main.yml with the proper licensing to match repo.

Update README.md license info

Related to issue #21 and issue #22

Create Vagrant Testing Environment

Need to create a Vagrant testing environment. This would provide the ability to do local testing.

Add Vagrant Usage Info To README.md

Need to add Vagrant usage info to README.md

Fix pip install

Need to fix Python pip install. The current method uses easy_install. This is failing because of dependencies so need to change to python-pip package.

Reformat variables in tasks/templates

Need to reformat all variables in tasks/templates to follow the pattern below:

From:

{{ var.foo }}
{{ var.foo.bar }}

To:

{{ var['foo'] }}
{{ var['foo']['bar'] }}

NOTE: This is not a requirement but a preference going forward

Add ability to enable/disable CLI over Remoting

Need to add the ability to enable/disable CLI over Remoting.

Whether to enable the historical Jenkins CLI mode over remoting (-remoting option in the client). While this may be necessary to support certain commands or command options, it is considered intrinsically insecure. (-http mode is always available, and -ssh mode is available whenever the SSH service is enabled.)

Fix unreadable data error in WebUI

In the latest version of Jenkins in the WebUI an error is presented as below:

MissingFieldException: No field 'default Suffix' found in class 'jenkins.model.JenkinsLocationConfiguration'

Fix Insecure Install And Plugin Installations

When setting up a Vagrant test environments for issue #3 I came across some issues which prevented a successful install to setup an insecure setup which also included installing plugins.

managerPasswordSecret encyption issue in config.xml

when using ldap, i can't login when i pass unencrypted password in config.xml for managerPasswordSecret

if i use existing config.xml and figure out what encrypted password is and put it into my config.xml file, it works.

any ideas?