IPA Server Ansible Role

This repository contains a configuration template (i.e. an Ansible Role) to customize your environment in the European Weather Cloud (EWC). The template is designed to:

• Validate that network/subnet configuration in the EWC tenancy
• Configure a pre-existing virtual machine running RockyLinux version 8 or 9, and with a minimum recommended 4GB of RAM, such that it:
  • Provides DNS resolutions for discovery of resources (i.e. other virtual machines)
  • Enables centralized user and credentials creation/edition/deletion/authentication
  • Allows centralized authorization between users and resources

Copyright and License

Copyright © EUMETSAT 2025.

The provided code and instructions are licensed under the MIT license. They are intended to automate the setup of an environment that includes third-party software components. The usage and distribution terms of the resulting environment are subject to the individual licenses of those third-party libraries.

Users are responsible for reviewing and complying with the licenses of all third-party components included in the environment.

Contact EUMETSAT for details on the usage and distribution terms.

Usage

The step-by-step described below assume your local file system follows the example structure below, with ewc-ansible-role-ipa-server being a clone of this repository:

.
├── roles
│   └── ewc-ansible-role-ipa-server
├── inventory.yml
└── playbook.yml

1. Specify the target host and SSH credentials

Create an inventory file to specify address/credentials that Ansible should use to reach the virtual machine you wish to configure:

# inventory.yml
---
ewcloud:
  hosts:
    ipa_server:
      ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
      ansible_host: <add the IPV4 address of the target host>
      ansible_ssh_private_key_file: <add the path to local SSH RSA private key file>
      ansible_user: <add the username which owns the SSH RSA private key >

2. Customize the template

Edit input values for the template variables as needed (see Inputs section for details). Then, proceed to create an Ansible Playbook file to load your customizations:

# playbook.yml
---
- name: Deploy IPA Server on RockyLinux
  hosts: ipa_server
  become: true
  become_user: root
  become_method: ansible.builtin.sudo

  roles:
    - ewc-ansible-role-ipa-server

3. Apply the template

You can apply changes on the target host by running:

ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml playbook.yml

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
ipa_domain	domain name to be managed by the IPA server. Example: eumetsat.sandbox.ewc	string	n/a	yes
ipa_server_hostname	hostname of the target vm where the IPA server will be installed. Example: ipa-server-1	string	n/a	yes
ipa_admin_username	username of administrator account to replace the default IPA admin. Example: ipaadmin	string	n/a	yes
ipa_admin_password	password of administrator account to replace the default IPA admin (at least 8 characters long). Example: my-secret-password	string	n/a	yes
ipa_admin_givenname	given name of the administrator to replace the default IPA admin (not necessarily a real person's name). Example: EWC	string	n/a	yes
ipa_admin_surname	surname of the administrator to replace the default IPA admin (not necessarily a real person's name). Example: IPAADMIN	string	n/a	yes

Dependencies

💡 Upon execution, a SBOM (SPDX format) is auto-generated and stored in the VM's file system root directory (see /sbom.json). Third-party components used in the resulting environment.

Component	Home URL
ipa-server	http://www.freeipa.org
ipa-server-dns	http://www.freeipa.org
bind-dyndb-ldap	https://releases.pagure.org/bind-dyndb-ldap

Changelog

All notable changes (i.e. fixes, features and breaking changes) are documented in the CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

Thanks for taking the time to join our community and start contributing! Please make sure to:

• Familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct before contributing.
• See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on how to request or submit changes.

Authors

European Weather Cloud <support@europeanweather.cloud>