Speed up APT execution, add SSH pipelining, Add an hd-idle role inste…

…ad of hdparm

ansible.cfg

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 [defaults]
 INVENTORY = hosts
 vault_password_file = pass.sh
-interpreter_python = python3
+ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
+
+[ssh_connection]
+pipelining = True

group_vars/all/vars.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ host: "{{ duckdns_domain }}.duckdns.org"
 
 ntp_timezone: "{{ timezone }}"
 
-locale: en-us.UTF-8
+locale: en_US.UTF-8
 
 keyboard_layout: us
 
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ boot_drive_serial: ""
 
 enable_pikvm: true
 
+spindown_time: 600 # in seconds
+
 #
 # Apt mirrors
 #

roles/avahi/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 ---
 - name: Install required system packages
   apt: 
-    name: "{{ item }}" 
+    name: avahi-daemon
     state: latest 
     update_cache: yes
-  with_items: 
-    - 'avahi-daemon'
 
 - name: Copy the main Avahi config
   template:

roles/docker/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 ---
 - name: Install required system packages
   apt: 
-    name: "{{ item }}" 
+    name:
+      - 'apt-transport-https'
+      - 'ca-certificates'
+      - 'curl'
+      - 'software-properties-common'
+      - 'python3-pip'
+      - 'virtualenv'
+      - 'python3-setuptools'
     state: latest 
     update_cache: yes
-  with_items: 
-    - 'apt-transport-https'
-    - 'ca-certificates'
-    - 'curl'
-    - 'software-properties-common'
-    - 'python3-pip'
-    - 'virtualenv'
-    - 'python3-setuptools'
 
 - name: Ensure group docker exists
   group:

roles/essential/tasks/main.yml

@@ -54,10 +54,9 @@
 
 - name: Install extra packages
   apt: 
-    name: "{{ item }}" 
+    name: "{{ extra_packages }}" 
     state: latest 
     update_cache: yes
-  with_items: "{{ extra_packages }}"
 
 - name: Clone the latest dotfiles repo
   git:
@@ -93,4 +92,9 @@
 
 - name: Set the hostname
   hostname:
-    name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
+    name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
+
+- name: Generate the locale
+  locale_gen:
+    name: "{{ locale }}"
+    state: present

roles/filesystems/hd-idle/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+- name: Check if hd-idle is installed
+  shell:
+    cmd: which hd-idle
+  ignore_errors: true
+  register: hdidle
+  changed_when: hdidle.rc != 0
+
+- name: Install hd-idle
+  when: hdidle.rc != 0
+  block:
+
+  - name: Create the temporary directory
+    file:
+      path: /tmp/hd-idle
+      state: directory
+
+  - name: Install github3 module
+    pip:
+      name: github3.py
+
+  - name: Get the latest release version
+    github_release:
+      user: adelolmo
+      repo: hd-idle
+      action: latest_release
+    register: release
+
+  - name: print
+    debug:
+      var: release
+
+  - name: Grab the latest amd64 deb package
+    get_url: 
+      url: "https://github.com/adelolmo/hd-idle/releases/download/{{ release['tag'] }}/hd-idle_{{ release['tag'] | regex_replace('^v','') }}_amd64.deb"
+      dest: /tmp/hd-idle
+
+  - name: Install the deb package 
+    shell:
+      cmd: cd /tmp/hd-idle && dpkg -y -i hd-idle*.deb
+
+- name: Install the hd-idle configuration file
+  template: 
+    src: hd-idle.default.j2
+    dest: /etc/default/hd-idle
+
+- name: Make sure that hd-idle is started and enabled on boot
+  systemd:
+    name: hd-idle
+    state: started
+    enabled: yes
+    masked: no
+

roles/filesystems/hd-idle/templates/hd-idle.default.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+START_HD_IDLE=true
+HD_IDLE_OPTS="-i {{ spindown_time }} -l /var/log/hd-idle.log"

roles/filesystems/mergerfs/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 ---
 - name: Install required system packages
   apt: 
-    name: "{{ item }}" 
+    name: "mergerfs"
     state: latest 
     update_cache: yes
-  with_items: 
-    - 'mergerfs'

roles/filesystems/timemachine/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 ---
 - name: Install required system packages
   apt: 
-    name: "{{ item }}" 
+    name:
+      - netatalk
+      - hfsplus
+      - hfsprogs
     state: latest 
     update_cache: yes
-  with_items: 
-    - 'netatalk'
-    - 'hfsplus'
-    - 'hfsprogs'
 
 - name: Copy the Netatalk config
   template:

run.yml

@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@
       tags:
       - snapraid
 
-    - role: filesystems/hdparm
+    - role: filesystems/hd-idle
       tags:
-      - hdparm
+      - hd-idle
 
     # SMART error checking
     - role: stuvusit.smartd