Install ansible-core + required collections via pip

[jpmens]

Instead of installing via packages, we should install via pip (to user). Installing ansible-core and the two required collections is likely faster and will consume less space.

The advantage for us is pinning the release we want and thus having same versions on Debian and Ubuntu.

Must verify we then have

• passlib
• requests
• paho.mqtt

[jpmens]

Handle "restart services" on ubuntu after apt install python3-pip

[jpmens]

apt install python3-pip  python3.10-venv

useradd --home-dir /usr/local/owntracks/ansible --create-home --comment Ansible --system ansible

sudo -u ansible python3 -mvenv /usr/local/owntracks/ansible
sudo -u ansible /usr/local/owntracks/ansible/bin/pip install ansible-core

sudo -u ansible /usr/local/owntracks/ansible/bin/ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
sudo -u ansible /usr/local/owntracks/ansible/bin/ansible-galaxy collection install community.crypto

Looks good, but installing c.general collection takes ages on first run. Or does it?

and if I install ansible full?

time sudo -u ansible /usr/local/owntracks/ansible/bin/pip install ansible

real    1m1.490s
user    0m0.006s
sys 0m0.013s

du -sh /usr/local/owntracks/ansible/
626M    /usr/local/owntracks/ansible/

[jpmens]

diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index 717d4af..fa8893a 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ fi
 if ! which ansible-playbook > /dev/null; then
        echo "Attempting to install ansible for bootstrapping"
        sudo apt update
-       sudo apt -qq install -y ansible
+       sudo NEEDRESTART_MODE=a apt install python3-pip
 fi

+
 # people who know Ansible might be questioning some of the practices
 # here such as why not use ansible.cfg right here, or templates in
 # templates/ directory; the intention is to hide as much of the
@@ -18,4 +19,4 @@ fi

 export ANSIBLE_CONFIG=files/ansible/ansible.cfg

-ansible-playbook owntracks-setup.yml "$@"
+/usr/local/owntracks/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook owntracks-setup.yml "$@"

[jpmens]

diff --git a/files/ansible/ansible.cfg b/files/ansible/ansible.cfg
index 01193e9..f5a091a 100644
--- a/files/ansible/ansible.cfg
+++ b/files/ansible/ansible.cfg
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ nocows=1
 inventory=inventory.ini
 filter_plugins = filter_plugins/
 jinja2_native = False
+collections_path = /usr/local/owntracks/ansible/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections

[jpmens]

Tested on a fresh Debian 12 as well.