testnet-ops

Installation

Install Ansible
Add location of the directory containing the ansible binary to your PATH
Set Locale Encoding to UTF-8

Ansible requires the locale encoding to be UTF-8. You can either use the LANG prefix when running Ansible commands or set the system-wide locale
- Option 1: Use LANG Prefix in Commands
  
  If you prefer not to change the system-wide locale, you can use the LANG prefix when running Ansible commands:
```
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ansible-playbook your_playbook.yml
```
- Option 2: Set System-Wide Locale
  - Edit the /etc/default/locale file:
```
sudo nano /etc/default/locale
```
  - Set the LANG variable to en_US.UTF-8:
```
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
```
  - Reboot your system or log out and log back in to apply the changes
  - Reference: https://udhayakumarc.medium.com/error-ansible-requires-the-locale-encoding-to-be-utf-8-detected-iso8859-1-6da808387f7d

Setup Remote Hosts

To run the playbook on a remote machine, setup the required ansible inventory:

Create a new hosts.ini file:
```
cp example-hosts.ini hosts.ini
```
Edit the hosts.ini file to run the playbook on a remote machine:
```
[<deployment_host>]
<host_name> ansible_host=<target_ip> ansible_user=<ssh_user> ansible_ssh_common_args='-o ForwardAgent=yes'
```
- Replace <deployment_host> with the appropriate host group for the deployment
- Replace <host_name> with the alias of your choice
- Replace <target_ip> with the IP address or hostname of the target machine
- Replace <ssh_user> with the SSH username (e.g., dev, ubuntu)

Verify that you are able to connect to the host using the following command

ansible all -m ping -i hosts.ini -k

# Expected output:

# <host_name> | SUCCESS => {
#  "ansible_facts": {
#      "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3.10"
#  },
#  "changed": false,
#  "ping": "pong"
# }

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testnet-ops

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Playbooks

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