Using Ansible to orchestrate your cryptocurrency mining gig eh rig :)

I had set up the miners in a traditional way but as soon as there is more than one server involved the process of setting them up, starting/stopping and keeping track of the status can get very tedious! I had heard about Chef, Puppet, etc. but it never clicked ... until I found Ansible – a simple way to automate server processes with a relaxed learning curve.

For ex. if you want to start your ccminers, simply type:

ansible-playbook manage.yml --tags "ccminer_start"

If you want to know the status and what your ccminers are doing:

ansible-playbook manage.yml --tags "ccminer_status"
This outputs ok and what the current hashrate is, if everything is smooth.

As there isn't only ccminer I am planning to extend the scripts to others like minergate, ethdrc64, storjshare, etc.

I hope you find my scripts useful!
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, I am not the best sysadmin guy and these scripts could definitely be improved. Maybe somebody wants to do a pull request? :)