Getting started

Example inventory

To manage persistence of paths on a TemplateBasedVM it should be included in the debops_service_persistent_paths Ansible inventory group:

[debops_service_persistent_paths]
hostname

The role can also run against a TemplateVM to prepare paths which will then be persistent in AppVMs based on the TemplateVM.

If the role is used as a dependency role, you as user of the main role do not need to do anything with this role except from having it installed and using the appropriate playbook provided by the main role.

Example playbook

If you are using this role without DebOps, here's an example Ansible playbook that uses the debops.persistent_paths role:

---

- name: Ensure paths are stored on persistent storage
  collections: [ 'debops.debops', 'debops.roles01',
                 'debops.roles02', 'debops.roles03' ]
  hosts: [ 'debops_service_persistent_paths' ]
  become: True

  environment: '{{ inventory__environment | d({})
                   | combine(inventory__group_environment | d({}))
                   | combine(inventory__host_environment  | d({})) }}'

  roles:

    - role: persistent_paths
      tags: [ 'role::persistent_paths', 'skip::persistent_paths' ]

Qubes OS

The qubes-core-agent package needs to be installed in the TemplateVM which is the default for the official Debian templates.

Note that currently you will need an unreleased version of bind-dirs.sh in place for some roles which use debops.persistent_paths to work correctly (ref: bind-dirs: Create ro if bind target exists).

Refer to bind-dirs for more details and limitations.

Ansible tags

You can use Ansible --tags or --skip-tags parameters to limit what tasks are performed during Ansible run. This can be used after a host was first configured to speed up playbook execution, when you are sure that most of the configuration is already in the desired state.

Available role tags:

role::persistent_paths

Main role tag, should be used in the playbook to execute all of the role tasks as well as role dependencies.

role::persistent_paths:qubes_os

Tasks related to Qubes OS.