skeleton-ansible-role-with-test-user

This is a skeleton project that can be used to quickly get a new cisagov Ansible role GitHub project started, where that Ansible role requires an AWS test user for automated testing.

This skeleton project contains licensing information, as well as pre-commit hooks and GitHub Actions configurations appropriate for an Ansible role, as well as the Terraform code to create the AWS test user.

Pre-requisites

In order to execute the Molecule tests for this Ansible role in GitHub Actions, a build user must exist in AWS. The accompanying Terraform code will create the user with the appropriate name and permissions. This only needs to be run once per project, per AWS account. This user can also be used to run the Molecule tests on your local machine.

Before the build user can be created, you will need a profile in your AWS credentials file that allows you to read and write your remote Terraform state. (You almost certainly do not want to use local Terraform state for this long-lived build user.) If the build user is to be created in the CISA COOL environment, for example, then you will need the cool-terraform-backend profile.

The easiest way to set up the Terraform remote state profile is to make use of our aws-profile-sync utility. Follow the usage instructions in that repository before continuing with the next steps, and note that you will need to know where your team stores their remote profile data in order to use aws-profile-sync.

To create the build user, follow these instructions:

cd terraform
terraform init --upgrade=true
terraform apply

Once the user is created you will need to update the repository's secrets with the new encrypted environment variables. This should be done using the terraform-to-secrets tool available in the development guide. Instructions for how to use this tool can be found in the "Terraform IAM Credentials to GitHub Secrets" section. of the Project Setup README.

If you have appropriate permissions for the repository you can view existing secrets on the appropriate page in the repository's settings.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

None.

Dependencies

None.

Installation

This role can be installed via the command:

ansible-galaxy install --role-file path/to/requirements.yml

where requirements.yml looks like:

---
- name: skeleton
  src: https://github.com/cisagov/skeleton-ansible-role-with-test-user

and may contain other roles as well.

For more information about installing Ansible roles via a YAML file, please see the ansible-galaxy documentation.

Example Playbook

Here's how to use it in a playbook:

- hosts: all
  become: true
  become_method: sudo
  tasks:
    - name: Include skeleton
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: skeleton

New Repositories from a Skeleton

Please see our Project Setup guide for step-by-step instructions on how to start a new repository from a skeleton. This will save you time and effort when configuring a new repository!

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

License

This project is in the worldwide public domain.

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.

Author Information

First Last - [email protected]