Ops: Build dev environment with Vagrant & Ansible

Steps to get your environment up:

1. clone this repo
2. use vagrant with virtualbox provider to get your VM up
3. use ansible for VM provisioning

Compatibility

Tested and approved on :

• Debian jessie (8+)
• Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS)
• Ubuntu Xenial (16.04 LTS)

Vagrant : Create a Virtual Machine

Install Vagrant

All you need is to install Vagrant.

Run a Virtual Machine

Vagrant configuration (for virtualbox provider only) is present in the Vagrantfile, in the repository root.

Create and up a VM from a simple command (see Vagrantfile for the full list):

vagrant up [golang,ci,weblemp,weblamp,docker,monitoring...]

Ansible: Virtual Machine provisioning

Install ansible

The first step is to get ansible, i'd recomand to get it from the source to be compatible with all the roles in the different playboks (ansible >= 2.2 required).

Test your setup : ping

ansible -i inventories/local all -m ping
ansible -i inventories/local webservers -m ping
ansible -i inventories/local weblemp.local -m ping

Test your setup : command

ansible -i inventories/local all -m command -a "cat /etc/os-release"
ansible -i inventories/local webservers -m command -a "cat /etc/os-release"
ansible -i inventories/local weblemp.local -m command -a "cat /etc/os-release"

Test your setup : setup

ansible -i inventories/local weblemp.local -m setup

Install roles from Ansible Galaxy

Install roles into the roles directory:

# install all roles from the requirements file to the playbooks/roles directory
cd playbooks/requirements
ansible-galaxy install -r all.yml -p ../roles

Alternatively, you can install only the desired roles from other requirements files:

# install only roles needed for the base playbook
cd playbooks/requirements
ansible-galaxy install -r base.yml -p ../roles

# Then you can add roles from a more specific playbook
ansible-galaxy install -r monitoring.yml -p ../roles

My ansible roles

• Ansible galaxy: https://galaxy.ansible.com/jebovic
• Github: https://github.com/jebovic

Run a playbook

Example #1: run the base playbook on all servers listed in ansible/_inventory file

cd ansible
ansible-playbook base.yml --ask-vault-pass

Note: don't forget to replace variables values from group_vars and host_vars, and replace encrypted values in ansible/group_vars/all/vault.yml with yours.

Example #2: run the webservers playbook against VM listed into the webservers group of the inventory

cd ansible
ansible-playbook nodes.yml --limit nodes

License

MIT

Author Information

Jérémy Baumgarth https://github.com/jebovic