OpenWISP 2 successfully installed on raspbian jessie (raspberry pi)

[Federico Capoano]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to try this for a while, so after another thread was started regarding how to install OpenWISP on a raspberry pi2, I decided to finally give it a try.

I have just installed successfully OpenWISP 2 on a raspberry pi 3 which is flashed with raspbian jessie without any issue. Since raspbian is based on debian, I assumed it would work straightaway and I'm glad I have found out I was right.

The procedure is the same as the documented one, but I will describe it here anyway to help those who'll find this post.

Create an inventory file called "hosts" with the following contents:

[pi]
<IP-ADDRESS-HERE>

Replace <IP-ADDRESS-HERE> with your raspberry pi's IP address or even better a hostname if you have set up a DNS record that points to your pi.

Now create a file playbook.yml with the following contents:

- hosts:
    - pi
  become: true
  roles:
    - openwisp2
  vars:
    openwisp2_shared_secret: <ANY-VALUE-OF-YOUR-LIKING-HERE>

Replace <ANY-VALUE-OF-YOUR-LIKING-HERE> with a password/secret you want to use.

ansible-playbook -i hosts -l pi -u pi --ask-pass --ask-sudo-pass playbook.yml

The process was a bit slow during the first steps of installing the dependencies, but after that everything ran quickly as usual

 The web UI of OpenWISP 2 runs smoothly but apart from a few simple test I did not perform any stress test.

I hope it will be useful.

Federico

[Edward Um]

Hi Fredrico, 

Could you clarify where I create a the "hosts" file? its confusing as there already is a hosts file in /etc

Thanks, 

[Federico Capoano]

Hi Edward,

the ansible inventory is not to be confused with the system host file.

Put the ansible files anywhere you like, eg: in your home directory.

The procedure is documented step by step here: https://github.com/openwisp/ansible-openwisp2#usage-tutorial

Federico

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[Edward Um]

Thanks Fredrico, 

I'll let you know how i go, 

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