Configuration Management Workshop
In this workshop, we'll cover the basics of setting up a simple configuration server, enabling ssh access, and using ansible to configure a simple web server.
Part 1. Configuration Management Workshop
Part 2. Building a Configuration Server
Part 3. Ansible Playbooks
Workshop setup
We will be using two VMs, one will be called the config-server
, and the other called the web-srv
.
- Make sure you already have a focal image, pulled locally.
bakerx pull focal cloud-images.ubuntu.com
Config-server VM
- Create the Virtual Machine for the
🎛️ config-server
.
bakerx run config-server focal --ip 192.168.56.10 --sync
-
- You should see a second NIC created with a host-only network and assigned a static ip address.
-
- Because the
--sync
option was provided, the VM will also mount your current directory on your host computer, which is accessible via/bakerx
(like a volume in docker).
- Because the
Web-server VM
- Create the Virtual Machine for the
🌍 web-srv
.
bakerx run web-srv focal --ip 192.168.56.100
Verifying setup is correct
- Using the terminal, run a couple of checks to make sure everything is okay.
First, from our host computer, let's make sure we can run ping 192.168.56.10
and ping 192.168.56.100
.
If this works, this should mean both our VM's correctly have host-only networking setup, and they both have an ip address you can use to connect to them. You can manually check the ip address inside the VMs by running ip -c a
.
Second, run bakerx ssh config-server
to access your config-server
. Then make sure your VM has properly mounted your host's computer's directory.
You should see something like:
vagrant@ubuntu-focal:~$ ls /bakerx
CM.md Playbooks.md README.md examples img opunit_inventory.yml test yaml
Moving on
If everything looks good, then time to move on to the next step:
Part 2. Building a Configuration Server