raspi-ansible

ansible playbooks to set up raspberry pi device

install headless raspi

• download https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/
• configure addtional settings by pressing crtl + shift + x
• enabled Wifi and set SSID, Password and Country
• enable SSH and select via Public-Key and copy your SSH public key into the field (required for ansible deployement as well)
• click save and continue to burn image for distribution Debian or Ubuntu on your SSD card
• insert SSD card into your raspberry pi
• search for your raspberry pi device in local network via nmap
• nmap -sn 192.168.0.0/24 (ip address depends on your NAT)
• download putty (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html)
• go to SSH Auth and select your private key for SSH connection
• connect via putty SSH to your raspberry pi via found ip from nmap command

install ansible on linux deployment host (or ubuntu on windows) with pip

• install pip if not exists
• curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
• sudo python3 get-pip.py -> install global
• python3 -m pip install ansible

configure hosts and SSH for deployment

• update device (https://github.com/ettenauer/raspi-ansible/blob/main/devices), set hosts with ansible_ssh_private_key_file location (ssh key used for headless setup)
• use .pem key format as reference for private key

deploy ansible playbooks

• git pull https://github.com/ettenauer/raspi-ansible
• verify connectivity via -> ansible all -i devices -u pi -m ping
• ansible-playbook -i devices simple.yaml