motd

This role creates the Message Of The Day (motd) file with some additional information about the distro and the hardware.

The configuration of the role is done in such way that it should not be necessary to change the role for any kind of configuration. All can be done either by changing role parameters or by declaring completely new configuration as a variable. That makes this role absolutely universal. See the examples below for more details.

Please report any issues or send PR.

Example

# This is a playlist example
- host: myhost
  # Load the role to produce the /etc/motd file
  roles:
    - motd

This playbook produces the `/etc/motd' file looking like this:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/motd
     _              _ _     _
    / \   _ __  ___(_) |__ | | ___
   / _ \ | '_ \/ __| | '_ \| |/ _ \
  / ___ \| | | \__ \ | |_) | |  __/
 /_/   \_\_| |_|___/_|_.__/|_|\___|

 FQDN:    localhost.localdomain
 Distro:  CentOS 6.6 Final
 Virtual: YES

 CPUs:    1
 RAM:     0.49GB

Role variables

# Default ASCII art shown at the beginning of the motd
motd_ascii_art: |-2
       _              _ _     _
      / \   _ __  ___(_) |__ | | ___
     / _ \ | '_ \/ __| | '_ \| |/ _ \
    / ___ \| | | \__ \ | |_) | |  __/
   /_/   \_\_| |_|___/_|_.__/|_|\___|

# Whether to hide the Virtual info
motd_hide_virtual: no

# Whether to add extra new line behind the Virtual info
motd_virtual_newline: yes

# Number of initial space
motd_initial_spaces: 1

# Indent size
motd_indent: "{{ 7 if motd_hide_virtual else 8 }}"

# Default information to show under the ASCII art
motd_info__default:
  - FQDN: "{{ ansible_facts.fqdn }}"
  - Distro: "{{ ansible_facts.distribution }} {{ ansible_facts.distribution_version }} {{ ansible_facts.distribution_release }}"
  - "{{
        { '': ' ' if motd_virtual_newline else '' }
          if motd_hide_virtual
          else
        { 'Virtual': ('YES\n' if motd_virtual_newline else 'YES') if ansible_facts.virtualization_role == 'guest' else ('NO\n' if motd_virtual_newline else 'NO') } }}"
  - CPUs: "{{ ansible_facts.processor_vcpus }}"
  - RAM: "{{ (ansible_facts.memtotal_mb / 1000) | round(1) }}GB"

# Custom information to show under the ASCII art
motd_info__custom: []

# Final information to show under the ASCII art
motd_info: "{{
  motd_info__default +
  motd_info__custom
}}"

License

MIT

Author

Jiri Tyr