A simple introductory demo of Ansible playbook operations.

For a more in-depth discussion, check out this blog post.

• Clone this repo down to the system you'll be running Ansible from and make it your working directory

$ cd $HOME/code
$ git clone https://github.com/rcrelia/ansible-mojo.git
$ cd ansible-mojo

• Create a symlink from /etc/ansible to $HOME/code/ansible-mojo

$ sudo ln -s /etc/ansible $HOME/code/ansible-mojo

• Create a Vagrant VM using the image bento/xenial64 and VirtualBox as your provider

$ mkdir ~/vagrant-boxes/bento_ubuntu
$ cd ~/vagrant-boxes/bento_ubuntu
$ vagrant init bento/ubuntu-16.04; vagrant up --provider virtualbox

• Configure the VM to be accessible via host lookups on your machine (e.g., add it to your /etc/hosts)
• Add the vagrant user's private key to your authentication chain/agent for passwordless access to the VM

$ ssh-add ~/vagrant-boxes/bento_ubuntu/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key

• Create a RSA key to use for the ansible SSH user and populate $HOME/code/ansible/authorized_keys with it

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/ansible_key
$ cat ~/.ssh/ansible_key > $HOME/code/ansible-mojo/authorized_keys

• Add this new RSA key to your authentication chain/agent for passwordless access to the VM as user "ansible"

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/ansible_key

• Install Ansible v2.2.0 from source repo on GitHub

$ cd $HOME/src
$ git clone -b stable-2.2 git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git --recursive
$ cd ./ansible
$ source ./hacking/env-setup

• Add your Vagrant VM host to Ansible's host inventory ($HOME/code/ansible-mojo/hosts)
• Test Ansible operations with your Vagrant VM

$ ansible yourvmname -m setup -e ansible_ssh_user=vagrant

First run:

$ ansible-playbook main.yml -e ansible_ssh_user=vagrant

Subsequent runs:

$ ansible-playbook main.yml

• Create more distro-agnostic plays (e.g., same play for both CentOS and Ubuntu)
• Roles! Galaxy!

Send edits/ideas to [email protected], or fork the project on GitHub and send me a pull request.

Author:: Rick Crelia

Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2016 Rick Crelia

License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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