README.md

manage_operating_system

This role is for managing operating system settings.

Requirements

Following are the requirements of this role.

1. Ansible
2. An already initialized system running Linux.

Role Variables

When executing the role via Ansible these are the applicable variables:

• enable_core_dump

  When true, enable operating system facilities to capture and save core dumps. Default: false

• enable_user_profiling

  When true, sets relevant operating system settings such that any user and profile the system as well as disabling any masking of operating system kernel memory addresses. Default: false

These variables can be assigned in the pre_tasks definition of the Playbook.

Example Playbook

Inventory file content

Content of the inventory.yml:

all:
  children:
    primary:
      hosts:
        pgsql1.dbt2.internal:
          ansible_host: 10.1.1.3
          private_ip: 10.1.1.3

Playbook file content

Content of the inventory.yml file:

---
- hosts: all
  name: Example
  become: yes

  pre_tasks:
    - name: Initialize the user defined variables
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        enable_core_dump: true
        enable_user_profiling: true

  collections:
    - edb_devops.edb_postgres

  roles:
    - role: manage_operating_system

Playbook execution examples

$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml \
  -i inventory.yml \
  -u centos \
  --private-key <key.pem> \
  --extra-vars="enable_user_profiling=true enable_core_dump=true"

License

BSD

Author information

Author:

• Mark Wong
• EDB Postgres
• [email protected] www.enterprisedb.com