IBM Power Systems Linux Collection

Scope

The IBM Power Systems Linux Automation a a central place to provide modules that support Linux automation on Power. The content here helps manage workloads on Power infrastructure as part of your wider enterprise automation strategy.

The IBM Power Systems Linux Automation* is currently supported via

Currently the Linux modules validated on Power systesm including Ansible.Posix collection. It is a collection written by the Ansible Core Team. More information can be found at

Ansible.Posix https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/posix/index.html

Ansible

• Requires Ansible 2.9 or newer
• For help installing Ansible, refer to the [Installing Ansible] section of the Ansible Documentation
• Requires Python 2.7 or newer

Resources

Documentation of modules is generated on [GitHub Pages][pages].

Examples

Build kernel ( see install_kernel.yaml for full kernel install and build playbook )

• name: apply optional patch file(s) shell: "git apply {{ item }}" with_items: "{{ patch_files.files | map(attribute='path') | list }}" when: patches is defined or all patches is defined args: chdir: /tmp/kernel-download

• name: install kernel shell: "{{ item }}" with_items:

  • make olddefconfig
  • make -j 20
  • make modules
  • make modules_install
  • make install register: out args: chdir: /tmp/kernel-download

Example SELinux

selinux – Change policy and state of SELinux

• name: Enable SELinux selinux: policy: targeted state: enforcing

• name: Put SELinux in permissive mode, logging actions that would be blocked. selinux: policy: targeted state: permissive

• name: Disable SELinux selinux: state: disabled

Call this playbook as selinux_setting.yml. In order to get this playbook to work, you should have the ansible-collection-ansible-posix package installed.

$ sudo dnf install ansible-collection-ansible-posix

Then you can run the playbook with ansible-playbook command.

$ ansible-playbook selinux_enforcing.yml

License & Authors

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Copyright:: 2021- IBM, Inc

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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Authors:

• Mingming Cao Mingming.cao@ibm.com