cendio.thinlinc

Perform common best-practice tasks when configuring ThinLinc servers.

Description

Besides installing ThinLinc, there are a number of things which generally need to be done in order to get a fully functional ThinLinc system. For example:

• ensuring ThinLinc's administration commands work with sudo
• installing supported desktop environments
• implementing distribution-specific tweaks

This collection is designed to make administrators' lives easier when managing ThinLinc systems using Ansible.

Requirements

• ansible-core >= 2.15
• thinlinc-server

Installation

ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/cendio/ansible-collection-thinlinc.git

Example playbook

- name: Configure ThinLinc servers
  hosts: thinlinc_masters:thinlinc_agents
  become: true
  roles:
    - cendio.thinlinc.common
    - role: thinlinc-server
      vars:
        thinlinc_accept_eula: "yes"

- name: Configure ThinLinc agents
  hosts: thinlinc_agents
  become: true
  roles:
    - cendio.thinlinc.gpu
    - role: cendio.thinlinc.desktop
      vars:
        desktop_envs: ["mate"]

Roles

Role	Description
common	Tasks which are generally useful for all ThinLinc servers
desktop	Installs and configures supported desktop environments
gpu	Configures ThinLinc servers for use with a GPU

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Author

Cendio AB