From 31d8fc086b6b08fa1517f2e25304124d9feb10ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oz N Tiram 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 --- 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: