389 Directory Server - Ansible Collection Question

[Simon Pichugin]

Hi folks,

I work in Red Hat in the 389 Directory Server team (LDAP server, https://www.port389.org/).

We are developing a 389 Directory Server Ansible Galaxy Collection for Fedora.

The code draft we have now: https://github.com/389ds/ansible-ds

For now, we're in the very early development stages, so we're still defining the overall architecture.

I read Ansible documentation, but one thing is not 100% clear to me.

Is it the right thing to do during ansible-playbook execution?

1. Create a 'dummy' LDAP instance on the managed node;

2. Compare configuration between the 'dummy' instance and the customer's LDAP instance;

3. Remove the 'dummy' instance from the managed node;

4. Proceed with the gathered data.

Will it violate any Ansible paradigms? Or it is an acceptable thing to do in the module/collection that we will ship to our users.

Thank you!

Kind Regards,

Simon