Hi All,
I am reading a book to install and work on Asterisk 16.
I am a beginner to both Linux and Asterisk but started reading the book properly and got stuck on a place in the book
In that book, the Author just mentioned the below task:
Create an Ansible playbook in the file ~/ansible/playbooks/starfish.yml
As I am new to Linux and Ansible, I need your help in this…
It is better if someone teaches me the steps to create, edit and save the “starfish.yml” file.
Thanks a lot…
-Prabhakaran
Hi All,
I am reading a book to install and work on Asterisk 16.
I am a beginner to both Linux and Asterisk but started reading
the book properly and got stuck on a place in the bookIn that book, the Author just mentioned the below task:
Create an Ansible playbook in the file ~/ansible/playbooks/starfish.ymlAs I am new to Linux and Ansible, I need your help in this...
So, you're trying to learn all three of Ansible, Asterisk and Linux at the
same time!?
That doesn't sound good to me - depending on what operating system/s you're
previously familiar with, Linux can be enough of a challenge to get
comfortable with (and I'm assuming you're not an experienced Unix admin), and
I recommend you start with that before tackling anything else as potentially
even more complicated as Ansible and Asterisk (and certainly not both at the
same time).
It is better if someone teaches me the steps to create, edit and save the
"starfish.yml" file.
The simple answer to that is that you need a text editor.
Popular ones are vi, nano and emacs. My preference is vi, but I believe
beginners often seem to prefer nano.
The slightly longer answer to your question about how to "Create an Ansible
playbook in the file ~/ansible/playbooks/starfish.yml" and assuming you choose
vi as your editor is:
$ cd ~
$ mkdir -p ansible/playbooks
$ vi starfish.yml
Press insert, and you can enter whatever content the book tells you should be
in that file.
When done, press Escape, and then :wq to save the file and exit.
However, your question makes me feel that you're really getting rather ahead
of yourself by asking this on the ansible mailing list, and you should
consider joining a list helping newcomers to whichever Linux distribution
you're using (presumably CentOS, Ubuntu or something related to either of
those), and get to know about package management, basic configuration file
editing, and system log files etc., before trying to run ahead and get involved
with things as complex as Asterisk and Ansible.
I'm not trying to put you off - I'm just saying that you may find things a lot
easier to understand if you take things in stages rather than attempting to
learn several new things all at the same time.
Regards,
Antony.
There are many videos on Youtube which can help you for that.
For a start (and assuming it’s not been previously suggested before), would recommend following:
Best of luck
Hello everyone!
Found this discussion in google after facing the same issue as the topic creator.
The point here is that he’s not trying to learn everything at the same time. We are reading the book “Asterisk: Definitive Guide 5th Edition”, and to set up an Asterisk environment, instead of doing everything manually, the book offers a playbook which installs everything you need to start following the book. Asterisk only runs in Linux, but previous Linux knowledge is not obligatory (although recommended). The problem here is that they don’t provide the playbook file online and we have to copy it manually (or through a PDF book), however both ways are easy to misspell or add unwanted spaces.
Well, I’ve tried to write the file manually and I’m getting stuck due to an syntax error, but I can’t find where the error is. This is the whole file. The part that returns an error is the bold one. Can someone help us to figure out how to fix this playbook? Thanks in advance!
current_mysql_root_password: “”
updated_mysql_root_password: “root”
current_mysql_asterisk_password: “”
updated_mysql_asterisk_password: “root”
tasks:
name: Install epel-release
dnf:
name: epel-release
state: present
name: Install dependencies
dnf:
name: [‘vim’, ‘wget’, ‘MySQL-python’]
state: present
name: Install the MySQL repo.
dnf:
name: http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm
state: present
name: Install mysql-server
dnf:
name: mysql-server
state: present
name: Override variables for MySQL (RedHat).
set_fact:
mysql_daemon: mysqld
mysql_packages: [‘mysql-server’]
mysql_log_error: /var/log/mysqld.err
mysql_syslog_tag: mysqld
mysql_pid_file: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
mysql_socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
when: ansible_os_family == “RedHat”
name: Ensure MySQL server is running
service:
name: mysqld
state: started
enabled: yes
name: update mysql root pass for localhost root account from local servers
mysql_user:
login_user: root
login_password: “{{ current_mysql_root_password }}”
name: root
host: “{{ item }}”
password: “{{ updated_mysql_root_password }}”
with_items:
localhost
name: update mysql root password for all other local root accounts
mysql_user:
login_user: root
login_password: “{{ updated_mysql_root_password }}”
name: root
host: “{{ item }}”
password: “{{ updated_mysql_root_password }}”
with_items:
“{{ inventory_hostname }}”
127.0.0.1
::1
localhost.localdomain
name: create asterisk database
mysql_db:
login_user: root
login_password: “{{ updated_mysql_root_password }}”
name: asterisk
state: present
name: asterisk mysql user
mysql_user:
login_user: root
login_password: “{{ updated_mysql_root_password }}”
name: asterisk
host: “{{ item }}”
password: “{{ updated_mysql_asterisk_password }}”
priv: “asterisk.*:ALL”
with_items:
“{{ inventory_hostname }}”
127.0.0.1
::1
localhost
localhost.localdomain
name: remove anonymous user
mysql_user:
login_user: root
login_password: “{{ updated_mysql_root_password }}”
name: “”
state: absent
host: “{{ item }}”
with_items:
localhost
“{{ inventory_hostname }}”
127.0.0.1
::1
localhost.localdomain
name: remove test database
mysql_db:
login_user: root
login_password: “{{ updated_mysql_root_password }}”
name: test
state: absent
user:
name: asterisk
state: present
createhome: yes
group:
name: asterisk
state: present
user:
name: astmin
groups: asterisk,wheel
state: present
- name: Install other dependencies
dnf:
name:
#Tweak the firewall for UDP/SIP
#Tweak firewall for UDP/RTP
firewalld:
port: 10000-20000/udp
permanent: true
state: enabled
name: Ensure NTP is running
service:
name: ntpd
state: started
enabled: yes
name: update odbcinst.ini
lineinfile:
dest: /etc/odbcinst.ini
regexp: “{{ item.regexp }}”
line: “{{ item.line }}”
state: present
with_items:
regexp: “^Driver64”
line: “Driver64 = /usr/lib64/libmyodbc8a.so”
regexp: “^Setup64”
line: “Setup64 = /usr/lib64/libodbcmyS.so”
name: create odbc.ini
blockinfile:
path: /etc/odbc.ini
create: yes
block: |
[asterisk]
Driver = MySQL
Description = MySQL connection to ‘asterisk’ database
Server = localhost
Port = 3306
Database = asterisk
UserName = asterisk
Password = {{ updated_mysql_asterisk_password }}
#Socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Hello everyone!
Found this discussion in google after facing the same issue as the topic creator.
The point here is that he's not trying to learn everything at the same time. We are reading the book "Asterisk: Definitive Guide 5th Edition", and to set up an Asterisk environment, instead of doing everything manually, the book offers a playbook which installs everything you need to start following the book. Asterisk only runs in Linux, but previous Linux knowledge is not obligatory (although recommended). The problem here is that they don't provide the playbook file online and we have to copy it manually (or through a PDF book), however both ways are easy to misspell or add unwanted spaces.
This sure sounds like a tedious exercise. What would be the reason
they do not provide the file (I wonder).
Well, I've tried to write the file manually and I'm getting stuck due to an syntax error, but I can't find where the error is. This is the whole file. The part that returns an error is the bold one. Can someone help us to figure out how to fix this playbook? Thanks in advance!
Pasting YAML into an HTML mail (with colours - really?) will probably
add even more errors.
Rather than eyeballs I would suggest using a more appropriate tool for
this, such as yamllint or ansible-lint.
They were meant to do exactly what you want.
We are reading the book "Asterisk: Definitive Guide 5th Edition", and to set
up an Asterisk environment, instead of doing everything manually, the book
offers a playbook which installs everything you need to start following the
book.
Sounds good so far.
The problem here is that they don't provide the playbook file online
That's weird.
and we have to copy it manually (or through a PDF book), however both ways
are easy to misspell or add unwanted spaces.
Have you tried a PDF to text converter?
That would be my first approach to getting code from a PDF publication onto a
machine, without typos.
Antony.