Ansible Role: Passware Kit Agent for Linux

An Ansible role that installs, configures and runs Passware Kit Agent on CentOS 7.x or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Requirements

In order to deploy Passware Kit Agent you will need:

• Ansible installed on your deployer machine

Installation

In order to install Passware Kit Agent for Linux role you can use the following command.

$ ansible-galaxy install passware.passware-kit-agent

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

- vars:
    pk_agent_user_name: passware
    pk_agent_user_group: passware
    pk_agent_home_dir_name: /home/passware
    pk_agent_work_dir_name: /home/passware/passware-kit-agent
    pk_agent_logs_dir_name: /home/passware/logs
    pk_agent_service_name: passware-kit-agent

Deployment

In order to deploy you need to perform the following steps:

• Create a new hosts (a-ka inventory) file. Check ansible inventory documentation if you need help. This file identifies all the hosts where to deploy to.
• Create a new playbook for deploying, for example, deploy.yml
• Customize role variables (see Role Variables)
• Include the passware.passware-kit-agent role as part of a play
• Run the deployment playbook

ansible-playbook -i hosts deploy.yml

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: passware.passware-kit-agent }

License

MIT

Author Information

Passware. Inc 800 West El Camino Real, Suite 180 Mountain View, CA 94040