kickstart

Bash only provisioning tool.

The idea is to use bash scripts to provision machines over ssh, with no client installation on the target. It provides some abstractions and functions that help you structure and write more readable bash scripts.

For an example project, check my homelab, the tty.space project or kickstart-baseline.

Goal

• No installation on the target
• Over ssh, or local
• Portable (Mac, Linux, containers and so on)

Documentation

Kickstart provides offline documentation using the kickstart doc command as well as an online on http://bltavares.viewdocs.io/kickstart.

Autocompletion is enabled for the offline documentation.

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap bltavares/tap
brew install --HEAD kickstart

Basher

basher install bltavares/kickstart

Arch Linux

kickstart-git is available on aur.

You can use the following command to install.

yaourt -S kickstart-git

Adding to the shell

Add it to the path.

One options is to download it, and export the bin folder into your PATH

# Adjust the paths to your preferred location
installation_path=/opt/kickstart
shell_configuration=$HOME/.bashrc

git clone https://github.com/bltavares/kickstart.git $installation_path
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:'$installation_path'/bin' >> $shell_configuration

Link under /usr/local/bin

The other is to link the bin/kickstart into a place that is already on your path.

This will allow sudo to see the kickstart command.

# Adjust the paths to your preferred location
installation_path=/opt/kickstart

git clone https://github.com/bltavares/kickstart.git $installation_path
sudo ln -s $installation_path/bin/kickstart /usr/local/bin/kickstart

Autocompletion

To enable autocompletion run the following command:

shell_configuration=$HOME/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(kickstart autocomplete)"' >> $shell_configuration

Adjust the shell configuration variable if you use a different shell.

Usage

create

Creates a sample project structure

kickstart create [folder name or current folder]

docker-create

Creates a docker container with a running sshd to test recipes

kickstart docker-create [image-name]

docker-ssh

Access the created docker container over ssh. A simple utility that looks up for the port the docker is bound.

kickstart docker-ssh [image-name]

compile

Compile the current workspace into the folder to be packaged on deploy

kickstart compile

deploy

Takes an host target and deploy the compiled code on it.

kickstart deploy [--sudo] [--password PASSWORD] target [roles ...]

Examples

Deploy a role on a host

kickstart deploy vagrant@localhost nodejs

Deploy two roles on a host with an alternative port

kickstart deploy "-p 2222 vagrant@localhost" nodejs redis

Deploy with sudo and send the password for sudo

kickstart deploy --sudo --password vagrant "-p 2222 vagrant@localhost" nodejs redis

local

Deploy localy a recipe that is not over ssh. It basicaly compile and run the install script

kickstart local [--sudo] [roles ...]

infect

Infect your shell with the kickstart utility functions

eval "$(kickstart infect)"

bootstrap

Install kickstart on the target

kickstart bootstratp [target]

Example

Using default ssh configurations

kickstart bootstrap vagrant@vagrant

Using alternate ssh port

kickstart bootstrap "-p 2222 vagrant@vagrant"

doc

Show documentation for a kickstart function

kickstart doc [function name]

Example

List all documented functions

kickstart doc

Show documentation for a function

kickstart doc kickstart.os

autocomplete

Enable autocompletion on your terminal

eval "$(kickstart autocomplete)"

Debugging

Prepend DEBUG=1 to the command and you will see massive ammount of commands on your screen

DEBUG=1 kickstart local nodejs

Choosing the docker image to use

You can choose an specific image to use on the docker-* commands.

On order, it looks up for an image as an argument, on the KICKSTART_DOCKER_IMAGE env variable or defaults to moul/sshd. You can use any image that is on the index, you probably want it to have an sshd running by default.

Docker images tested:

• moul/sshd
• bltavares/centos-ssh
• bltavares/arch-ssh

Packaging

.deb

You need to have make and fpm installed.

make deb

Thanks

This project was inspired on sunzi