From 31d8fc086b6b08fa1517f2e25304124d9feb10ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oz N Tiram <oz.tiram@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:29:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Specify that the cluster.yml playbook should run as root
(#3474)
* Specify that the cluster.yml playbook should run as root
This is a possible fix for #3388.
The following examples show the option `-b` too:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/custom-cloud/kubespray/
https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kubespray/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md#starting-custom-deployment
* Update invocation to include specific root user
* Update comment text according to suggestions
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README.md | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7f0e131ef..99a24c1ad 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ To deploy the cluster you can use :
cat inventory/mycluster/group_vars/all/all.yml
cat inventory/mycluster/group_vars/k8s-cluster/k8s-cluster.yml
- # Deploy Kubespray with Ansible Playbook
- ansible-playbook -i inventory/mycluster/hosts.ini cluster.yml
+ # Deploy Kubespray with Ansible Playbook - run the playbook as root
+ # The option `-b` is required, as for example writing SSL keys in /etc/,
+ # installing packages and interacting with various systemd daemons.
+ # Without -b the playbook will fail to run!
+ ansible-playbook -i inventory/mycluster/hosts.ini --become --become-user=root cluster.yml
Note: When Ansible is already installed via system packages on the control machine, other python packages installed via `sudo pip install -r requirements.txt` will go to a different directory tree (e.g. `/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages` on Ubuntu) from Ansible's (e.g. `/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible` still on Ubuntu).
As a consequence, `ansible-playbook` command will fail with:
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