ansible-ros-kinetic-playbook

ROS Kinetic installation playbook for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) hosts.

Getting started

Prerequisites

To run the project you need (on your host machine):

• [optional] Vagrant
• Ansible (ver. 2+)
• [optional] Virtualbox
• SSH connection with the remote host (Ubuntu 16.04 Linux)

Installaition

Ansible:

• Mac OS X:

brew install ansible

• Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get install ansible

Usage examples

• Provision the VM (using vagrant):

vagrant up --provision # from the folder with Vagrantfile

• Provision the VM or other host (directly with ansible):

ansible-playbook -i <inventory> provisioning/playbook.yml

Where <inventory> is a file that contains hosts to provision (see hosts as an example)

• Provision localhost:

cd provisioning && \
ANSIBLE_CONFIG=.ansible.cfg ansible-playbook --extra-vars "ros_user=<specify the user>" -K playbook.yml

Specify a user with sudo privileges.

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See more on how to run playbooks with various parameters in ansible's user guide.

Roles

• common:

  • Update and upgrade apt packages;
  • Install GCC (both gcc and g++) from ubuntu-toolchains/test;
  • SublimeText installation.

• ros:

  • ROS Kinetic installation (desktop-full, ros-base, etc.);
  • Post-installation environment setup.