As we now publish our roles to the paritytech org in galaxy.ansible.com, our README files should tell users that the recommended way to install the role are either with CLI (ansible-galaxy collection install paritytech.chain) or with a requirement.txt downloading from ansible-galaxy instead of github.

Parachain has a feature to support external relaychain. In this mode the collator doesn't need to run a local relay-chain node and simply needs to point to a relay-chain RPC URL.

This is already supported in the helm chart (paritytech/helm-charts#251).

We have to make sure our ansible scripts will still work following the release of paritytech/polkadot#7337

We need to make sure polkadot-prepare-worker and polkadot-execute-worker are downloaded at the bin path and that --workers-path is correctly set (if needed).

Currently bytehound seems to be manually installed on machines. It would be good to add support for downloading the libbytehound.so from a specific URL.

It is good practice to put keys in a separate keystore folder that is outside the database path which may be backuped by some processes.

I suggest introducing node_keystore_path to set:

      --keystore-path <PATH>
          Specify custom keystore path

The GPL is too restrictive and doesn't make sense to use for our Ansible collection. I propose we replace GPL with MIT.

In https://github.com/paritytech/ansible-galaxy/blob/main/roles/node/tasks/600-chain.yml, we perform a keypair check if the node_p2p_public_key var is also defined. While this check was relevant for us in the past, it doesn't make much sense to keep the code and let the node role perform such a check.

I'm running in to an issue running when trying to set-up a simple polkadot service with the main.yml in the node repo
version is `ansible [core 2.13.2] ansible [6.2.0]

The command I'm running is as follows:

ansible-playbook roles/node/tasks/main.yml -i ./ansible_hosts.yaml

content of ansible_host.yaml

[host1]
192.168.1.11

[host1:vars]
ansible_user=ilhan
node_user=polkadot
node_user_home_path=/home/polkadot

Getting the following output:

ERROR! 'ansible.builtin.user' is not a valid attribute for a Play

The error appears to be in '/Users/ilhan/devops/ansible-galaxy/roles/node/tasks/main.yml': line 3, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:


- name: Prepare | create user
  ^ here

What is it I'm doing wrong ?
And it would help a lot of more examples are presented in the README.

I instantiated a couple of different nodes with this ansible repo and on the validator nodes I would like to leave out the node_db_cache to the polkadot binary instead of setting it.

The default value is set defaults/main.yml. Leaving the option out is not possible, which it should be.
Maybe be only when the value is set in the inventory file this should be taken along.

Add different networks and their chainid's to the repo

With Polkadot release v0.9.43 there were changing CLI flags. This breaks the current deployment with the ansible-galaxy and leads to a non-working version.

--rpc-max-payload (replaced by --rpc-max-request-size and --rpc-max-response-size)
--ws-max-out-buffer-capacity
--ws-external (replaced by --rpc-external)
--unsafe-ws-external (replaced by --unsafe-rpc-external)
--ipc--path
--ws-port (replaced by --rpc-port)
--ws-max-connections (replaced by --rpc-max-connections)
--rpc-http (replaced by --rpc-addr)
--rpc-ws (replaced by --rpc-addr)