How to Install Ansible-NAS on NetBSD

In this tutorial, we will teach you how to install Ansible-NAS on NetBSD. Ansible-NAS is a set of Ansible playbooks that can be used to turn a regular computer into a network-attached storage (NAS) device.

Prerequisites

Before we start with the installation, there are a few prerequisites that you need to meet:

• A NetBSD system
• Root privileges on your NetBSD system
• Ansible installed on your NetBSD system

Step 1: Install Git and Clone the Repository

First, we need to install Git on our NetBSD system so that we can clone the Ansible-NAS repository from GitHub.

1. Open the terminal on your NetBSD system.
2. Install Git by running the following command: pkgin install git
3. Once Git is installed, clone the Ansible-NAS repository by running the following command: git clone https://github.com/DaveStephens/ansible-nas.git

Step 2: Configure Ansible

After cloning the repository, we need to configure Ansible on our NetBSD host.

1. Open the terminal and navigate to the ansible-nas directory that you cloned from GitHub.
2. Install Ansible by running the following command: pkgin install ansible
3. After installing Ansible, create a file named inventory in the ansible-nas directory.
4. Paste the following code snippet into the inventory file:

[nas]
localhost ansible_connection=local

This code snippet defines an Ansible inventory file with a single host named localhost.

Step 3: Configure the NAS

Now that we have Git and Ansible installed and the inventory file configured, we can configure the NAS using Ansible.

1. Open the terminal and navigate to the ansible-nas directory.
2. Run the following command to configure the NAS: ansible-playbook site.yml -i inventory

This command will execute the site.yml playbook and configure your NetBSD host as a NAS device.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked you through the process of installing Ansible-NAS on NetBSD. By following these steps, you should have a fully functional NAS device that you can use to store and share files on your network.

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