Common

New in version 0.1.

The common role prepares a system with functionality needed between multiple roles. Specifically:

  • sets timezone to UTC
  • configures hosts for simple name resolution (before Consul DNS is set up)
  • installs common software like pip
  • adds users.
  • adds SSL certificates created by security-setup to the root CA store
  • does various workarounds for cloud providers

Variables

use_host_domain

Add a domain component to hosts in /etc/hosts

default: false

host_domain

The domain component to add to hosts in /etc/hosts

default: novalocal