Install Rundeck on RockyLinux with Ansible

Install rundeck on Alma Linux 8

1 HARDWARE

• CPU: 2
• MEM: 4GB
• DISK: 50GB
• INSTALL TYPE: MINIMAL
• SELINUX: ENFORCED

2 SETUP NOTES

2.1 Setup Ansible

You will need this as well to integrate ansible in your rundeck env.

curl -L ansible.bitbull.ch | sh

2.2 INSTALL ANSIBLE ROLES FOR SETUP

ansible-galaxy install joe-speedboat.rundeck

for r in /etc/ansible/roles/*/roles/requirements.yml ; do ansible-galaxy role install -r $r ; done
for c in /etc/ansible/roles/*/collections/requirements.yml ; do ansible-galaxy collection install -r $c ; done

2.3 Prepair Rundeck Setup Playbook

genpasswd() {
   local l=$1
   [ "$l" == "" ] && l=16
   tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_=., < /dev/urandom | head -c ${l} | xargs
}
echo "
---
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
  - role: joe-speedboat.rundeck
  vars:
    mariadb_root_password: '$(genpasswd)'
    mariadb_user_password: '$(genpasswd)'
    rundeck_admin_pass: '$(genpasswd)'
  tasks:
  - yum: name=firewalld
  - service: name=firewalld enabled=true state=started
  - firewalld: service={{ item }} permanent=true immediate=true state=enabled
    with_items:
      - http
      - https
...
" > /etc/ansible/install_rundeck.yml
chmod 600 /etc/ansible/install_rundeck.yml

2.4 Install Rundeck

ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/install_rundeck.yml

2.5 First Steps

Now you can login into rundeck. Everything is setup now.

• Username: admin
• Password: see playbook

2.5.1 This Links may help you to get a start

• https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/manual/workflow-steps/builtin.html
• https://docs.rundeck.com/docs/administration/projects/