Ansible-NAS is a collection of Ansible playbooks that can be used to set up a network-attached storage (NAS) server. In this tutorial, we will be going through the installation process of Ansible-NAS on Void Linux.
Before installing Ansible-NAS, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
First, we need to clone the Ansible-NAS repository from GitHub using git.
Open your terminal and run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/DaveStephens/ansible-nas.git
This will download the repository to your current working directory.
Ansible-NAS is based on Ansible, so we need to install Ansible before we can proceed. We can install Ansible using Void Linux's package manager, XBPS.
Run the following command on your terminal:
sudo xbps-install -S ansible
This will install Ansible on your system.
Next, we need to install some dependencies that Ansible-NAS relies on.
Run the following command in your terminal:
sudo xbps-install -S python3-dev libffi-dev gcc musl-dev openssl-dev
This will install Python development files, Libffi, GCC, Musl, and OpenSSL development files.
Before running the Ansible playbooks, we need to create an inventory file. The inventory file lists the machines that Ansible will manage.
Create a new file named inventory.ini in the ansible-nas directory.
cd ansible-nas
touch inventory.ini
Then, add the following lines to the inventory.ini file:
[nas]
your-server.com
Replace your-server.com with the IP address or hostname of your NAS server.
Finally, we can start running Ansible playbooks to set up our NAS server.
In the ansible-nas directory, run the following command to run the playbooks:
ansible-playbook site.yml -i inventory.ini
This command will start the Ansible playbook and set up your NAS server. The process may take some time, depending on the speed of your machine.
In this tutorial, we have gone through the process of installing Ansible-NAS on Void Linux. Now, you can use Ansible-NAS to set up your own network-attached storage server.
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