Proxy client setup (Ansible Role)

This Ansible role will setup HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Proxy client in the Linux system (/etc/environment), Advanced Package Tool (APT) and Docker service.

Note: This Ansible role can run eather befor or after the Docker service is installed.

Requirements

• Role works on most Linux distributions

• Weekly tested on:

  • CentOS/RHEL 7,8
  • Debian 9,10
  • Fedora 31,32
  • Ubuntu 16,18,20

• Root privilegies

• Ansible 2.6+.

Role Variables

This is a copy from defaults/main.yml

# Set the Proxy server address value (i.e. http://1.2.3.4:3128)

# Addresses excluded from the traffic via Proxy
no_proxy: "localhost,127.0.0.1"

# Proxy server address for HTTP traffic
# http_proxy: <address>

# Proxy server address for HTTPS traffic
# https_proxy: <address>

# Proxy server address for FTP traffic
# ftp_proxy: <address>

# Exclude environment settings from the setup
exclude_env: no

# Exclude apt from the setup
exclude_apt: no

# Exclude Docker services from the setup
exclude_docker: no

# Exclude Git (global) from the setup
exclude_git: no

Example Playbook

In this example the Ansible role will setup HTTP Proxy in the system environment, Docker, Giy and exclude APT proxy setup.

---
- name: Setup Proxy
  hosts: all
  user: ansible
  become: yes
  vars:
    - http_proxy: http://1.2.3.4:567
    - exclude_apt: yes
  roles:
    - role: monolithprojects.http_proxy_client

In this example the Ansible role will setup HTTP/HTTPS/FTP Proxy in the system environment, in APT, Docker service and Git.

---
---
- name: Setup Proxy
  hosts: all
  user: ansible
  become: yes
  vars:
    - http_proxy: http://1.2.3.4:567
    - https_proxy: http://1.2.3.4:567
    - ftp_proxy: http://1.2.3.4:567
  roles:
    - role: monolithprojects.http_proxy_client

License

MIT

Author Information

Created in 2020 by Michal Muransky