ansible-drift

ansible-drift will send mails showing your configration drift from a specified playbook. The script can be run interactively or via cron and update your git repo if necessary. Each host in hostlist will be checked separately.

Role Variables

# a bash compatible list of hosts you want to check
drift_hostlist: "{{ groups['all']|sort|join(' ') }}"

# send mails to
drift_receiver: root

# run as
drift_user: ansible

# define playbook to be regularly executed
# drift_playbook:

# define a git branch to pull
# drift_branch: "origin main"
drift_branch: ""

Download

Download latest release with ansible-galaxy

$ ansible-galaxy install systemli.drift

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - systemli.drift
  vars:
    drift_playbook: /home/ansible/ansible/site.yml

Testing & Development

Tests

For developing and testing the role we use Github Actions, Molecule, and Vagrant. On the local environment you can easily test the role with

Run local tests with:

molecule test 

Requires Molecule, Vagrant and python-vagrant to be installed.For developing and testing the role we use Travis CI, Molecule and Vagrant. On the local environment you can easily test the role with

License

GPL

Author Information

https://www.systemli.org