Ansible Playbooks
Mist.io allows you to run Ansible playbooks on both newly created systems (after they are deployed) or on existing servers it has ssh access. There are three ways Ansible playbooks can be added in Mist.io: inline, via
Creating playbooks
Running playbooks
Inline editor
The simplest way, handy when we only have a few playbooks to add. In the Scripts section, select Ansible Playbook as the type, Inline as Source and paste your playbook (making sure that indentation is preserved while pasting). Press Add to save the playbook.
Github repository
To use a
If the repository is private, we'll have to give access to user https://github.com/mistio-bot so it can clone it.
If you don't specify an
Importing through URL
Alternatively, we can specify a URL which is either an Ansible
If we specify a single Ansible playbook via URL, it has to result to the playbook in
Running playbooks
Now that we have added our playbooks, it is time to see how we can run them. We can do that on a newly created system, or on existing systems that Mist.io already has ssh access.
Running a playbook on a new system
While we are creating a new machine through the Create Machine wizard, on the Script section, we can select Advanced and select our Ansible playbook. Once the server is deployed, it will run the playbook.
Running a playbook on an existing system
We can also run our Ansible playbooks on existing servers. Enter the scripts section, select the
