Ansible With Wasabi

How do I use Ansible with Wasabi?

Ansible is a develops tool that can be used to with Wasabi by following the instructions below. 

Pre-requisites:

• Ansible 2.7

• Additional packages are required – boto, boto3, botocore & python >= 2.6

If package installation are failing to complete– you may have to use the following option to ignore existing instances using command- sudo pip install --ignore-installed

Wasabi’s cloud storage functions and operates very similar to Amazon S3 – hence the user gets the benefit of leveraging all the tools made available for Amazon S3.

With Ansible, following Wasabi operations can be performed:

• List (List all objects inside a bucket)

• Get (download)

• Put (upload)

• Delete (delete a bucket or buckets and all its objects)

• Create (create a new bucket)

• Delobj (delete object inside a bucket)

• Create a bucket in different region

Please review the information below for each of the modes with sample expected results

To List all the Objects inside a bucket:

Query:

MAC$ ansible -i inv_local localhost -m aws_s3 -a "bucket=ansiblebucket s3_url=https://s3.wasabisys.com mode=list region=us-east-1 aws_access_key= aws_secret_key="

Result:

localhost | SUCCESS => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "LIST operation complete",

    "s3_keys": [

        "WasabiRocks.yml"

    ]

}

To Download Files from the bucket:

Query:

MAC$ ansible -i inv_local localhost -m aws_s3 -a "bucket=ansiblebucket s3_url=https://s3.wasabisys.com mode=get region=us-east-1 aws_access_key= aws_secret_key= object=ansiblebucket/WasabiRocks.yml dest=/Users/MAC/yamlscripts/WasabiRocks.yml"

Result:

localhost | CHANGED => {

    "changed": true,

    "msg": "GET operation complete"

}

Upload files to a bucket:

Query:

MAC$ ansible -i inv_local localhost -m aws_s3 -a "bucket=ansiblebucket s3_url=https://s3.wasabisys.com mode=put region=us-east-1 aws_access_key= aws_secret_key= object=WasabiRocks.yml src=/Users/MAC/yamlScripts/WasabiRocks.yml"

Result:

localhost | CHANGED => {

    "changed": true,

    "msg": "PUT operation complete",

    "url": "https://s3.wasabisys.com/ansiblebucket/WasabiRocks.yml?AWSAccessKeyId=&Expires=1542120731&Signature="

}

Delete files from a bucket:

Query:

MAC$ ansible -i inv_local localhost -m aws_s3 -a "bucket=ansiblebucket s3_url=https://s3.wasabisys.com mode=delete region=us-east-1 aws_access_key= aws_secret_key= "

Result:

localhost | CHANGED => {

    "changed": true,

    "msg": "Object deleted from bucket ansiblebucket."

}

Create a new bucket

Query:

MAC$ ansible -i inv_local localhost -m aws_s3 -a "bucket=bucket-for-ansible s3_url=https://s3.wasabisys.com mode=create region=us-east-1 aws_access_key= aws_secret_key="

Result:

localhost | CHANGED => {

    "changed": true,

    "msg": "Bucket bucket-for-ansible and all keys have been deleted."

}

Delete Specific objects inside a bucket

Query:

MAC$ ansible -i inv_local localhost -m aws_s3 -a "bucket=ansiblebucket s3_url=https://s3.wasabisys.com mode=delete region=us-east-1 aws_access_key= aws_secret_key= object=WasabiRocks.yml"

Result:

localhost | CHANGED => {

    "changed": true,

    "msg": "Object deleted from bucket ansiblebucket."

}

Create bucket in different region (ex: us-west-1)

Query:

MAC$ ansible -i inv_local localhost -m aws_s3 -a "bucket=bucket-for-ansible-west s3_url=https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com mode=create region=us-west-1 aws_access_key= aws_secret_key= "

Result:

localhost | CHANGED => {

    "changed": true,

    "msg": "Bucket created successfully"

}

Note that this example discusses the use of Wasabi’s us-west-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this article.