Add script to run playbooks

ansible/play.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+playbook_name=$1
+inventory_path="./inventories/"
+log_path="../logs"
+log_file="${log_path}/${playbook_name}.log"
+
+mkdir -p "${log_path}"
+
+echo "${playbook_name} started at $(date)" | tee -a "${log_file}"
+
+{ time ansible-playbook -i "${inventory_path}" "${playbook_name}" ; } 2>&1 | tee -a "${log_file}"
+
+echo "${playbook_name} finished at $(date)" | tee -a "${log_file}"

readme.md

@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ Some ansible playbooks to manage a [pibox](https://pibox.io) in various ways
     - If you can't resolve any hosts, check DNS. It's always DNS.
 1. Proceed to running playbooks
 
+## Running Playbooks
+
+It's recommended to use [`play.sh`](./ansible/play.sh) as it will automatically create log files for the playbooks that you execute.
+
+Its usage is: `./play.sh <playbook-name>`
+
+
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