Zimbra_ansible_install_role

With this role, you can install zimbra 8.8.x with ansible choosen one of the following two ways:

• Default
• Using prompt variable with true value. (e.g. -e prompt=true)

Installing the Ansible Role

ansible-galaxy install deathice.zimbra_ansible_install_role

or

git clone https://github.com/Deathice/Zimbra_ansible_install_role.git

Requirements

General

• Ansible v. 2.4+.
• Edit the remote group into your inventory host
• RedHat/CentOS 7.x

Logo

If you will deploy your own logo, is necessary (more information see the documentation)

• The application_banner has 200px X 35px pixels and type PNG.
• The login_banner has 440px X 60px pixels and type PNG.

Role Variables

Edit the variables into default/main.yml file with:

• srv_hostname: 'fqdn of your machine'
• zim_url: URL for download the zimbra compress file.
• ip_client: Server IP
• ip_dns: DNS Server IP
• token_id: 'Token ID from telegram'
• chatid: 'Chat ID from telegram'
• timezone: Set the timezone to the system (e.g. America/Guatemala)
• logo: Set to true to deploy your own logo
• url_app: If logo is true, you must specify the full URL when is located the application_banner
• url_login: If logo is true, you must specify the full URL when is located the login banner
• url_redirect: If logo is true, you can change the redirect URL when the app or login banner is clicked (optional)

Main Playbook Examples

Deploy zimbra from scratch

site.yml

---
- name: Execute role(s)
  hosts: remote

  roles:
    - Zimbra_ansible_install_role

ansible-playbook site.yml

If you have a personal logo, you can set the following variables

defaults/main.yml

---
logo: true
url_app: https://my.images.com/images/application_banner.png
url_login: https://my.images.com/images/login_banner.png

If you want to execute only the procedure to deploy your own logo, with the defaults/main.yml variables

ansible-playbook site.yml --tags only_logos

Notifications

If you want a notification on Telegram when the ansible process is finished, do this:

Change this variables values from your default/main.yml file

• token_id: id token from your telegram chat group
• chatid: chat id from your telegram chat group

Then, execute the playbook adding the tg variable with true value. (e.g. -e tg=true)

• If you dont know how to create a telegram bot, see https://core.telegram.org/bots
• If you don know how to get token_id and chat id, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32683992/find-out-my-own-user-id-for-sending-a-message-with-telegram-api

Note

This role not support backward compatibility.

Author Information

• Kevyn Perez kevynkl2@gmail.com
• Cellphone Number +(502) 5412-7538
• LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/kevyn-perez-marin-a0b198b7
• Ansible Galaxy https://galaxy.ansible.com/deathice