openbsd-run

openbsd-run is an Ansible playbook embedded in Python for performing actions against OpenBSD hosts.

If you are looking for a hosting provider that offers OpenBSD, consider using OpenBSD.Amsterdam which contributes to The OpenBSD Foundation.

Usage

This project only supports OpenBSD. You may test it by using the included Vagrantfile or by setting up an instance on a hosting provider.

Playbook

If you would rather use the raw playbook you may do so without any atypical setup.

Command Line Interface

By wrapping the Ansible playbook and the various plays with a command line interface we can provide familiar commands that run in parallel on hosts defined in an inventory.

Installing

You may use pip instead of poetry, though we’ll only cover using the latter since that’s what’s used for running, developing and testing.

$ poetry install --no-dev
$ poetry run openbsd-run -h
Usage: openbsd-run [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  -H, --host_pattern TEXT  Host pattern to match against inventory
  -i, --inventory TEXT     Ansible inventory file
  -q, --quiet              Suppress Ansible output
  -v, --verbose            Increase Ansible output
  --version                Show the version and exit.
  -h, --help               Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  pkg_add     Add or update packages
  pkg_delete  Remove packages
  syspatch    Patch host(s) using syspatch
  sysupgrade  Upgrade host(s) using sysupgrade

Contributing

The primary goal of this project is to make doing native OpenBSD “things” from a remote system trivially possible. General administration and setting up a mirror are two good examples, and you’re likely to see scaffolding in the raw playbook.

• If anything seems weird, definitely report it
• For starting new work, please file an issue so it may be discussed

Custom OpenBSD Vagrant box

I was originally using the generic/openbsd7 image but Vagrant fully supports what is needed for OpenBSD to run without adding additional packages. This isn’t required for any part of openbsd-run to function, test, etc but I like having the ability to create a fresh environment to test specific things in.

I’ll cover this in more detail later but here is a block of commands that I use when building/rebuilding the image, BUT DON’T RUN THIS VERBATIM:

vagrant destroy -f &&
vagrant box remove openbsd-run/openbsd &&
virsh vol-list --pool default |
    awk '/openbsd-run/ {print $1}' |
    xargs virsh vol-delete --pool default --vol &&
packer build -force openbsd.pkr.hcl &&
vagrant box add openbsd-run/openbsd build/openbsd-70-amd64.box &&
vagrant up

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