Ansible Role: Beszel Binary Agent

[dbrennand]

Hi there,

I'm currently working on an Ansible role to install the Beszel binary agent at scale across machines in my Homelab: https://github.com/dbrennand/ansible-role-beszel/tree/0.0.1

I was planning on writing some tests and I want to automate this end-to-end. However, the issue I have is I don't know what the KEY is for the agent as it has to be retrieved from the hub GUI. Is there an API to retrieve the key from the hub? Or some way to pre-seed the KEY used by the hub?

[dbrennand]

So I found this endpoint: https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/blob/main/beszel/internal/hub/hub.go#L186

So it looks possible, but now I'm thinking there is no way to seed an initial user for the hub?

[dbrennand]

OK, so I figured out I can do the following command inside the container to create a superuser account: https://github.com/dbrennand/ansible-role-beszel/blob/0.0.1/molecule/default/create.yml#L21

But when I restart the container, the initial page is still showing to create an admin user.

[dbrennand]

Figured it out 🙂 https://github.com/dbrennand/ansible-role-beszel/blob/0.0.1/molecule/default/create.yml#L23

[henrygd]

Nice!

You can also create the initial user for the hub with the /api/beszel/create-user endpoint, which only exists if there are no users in the database when the hub starts (this also deletes the temporary superuser that we use to get around the default PocketBase setup). Here's where we use it to create the first user from the web UI.

There's also a third party PocketBase Python SDK which might be useful: https://github.com/vaphes/pocketbase

Let me know if you have any other questions or if I can help in any way.

[dbrennand]

In case anyone comes along here in the future, here is my full Molecule sceanrio with REST API calls for registering the Beszel agent with the Beszel hub too 🙂

https://github.com/dbrennand/ansible-role-beszel/tree/0.0.1/molecule/default

[henrygd]

Very cool, I'll check it out when I have time :)