/ansible_lab

Portable Ansible Lab

The purpose of this project is to provide a POC of a portable ansible lab via Vagrant and Virtualbox.

This lab can be utilized regardless if you're on Windows or Linux.

Please make sure the following is installed on your local machine:

This lab will consist of four nodes:

  • One Ansible Controlplane node
  • Three Worker Nodes

HOW-TO-WINDOWS

  1. Make sure the prerequisites are installed

  2. open a powershell window and type

    git clone https://github.com/Retrockit/ansible_lab

    cd ansible_lab\Windows

  3. type: rm id_rsa* to delete the reference keys. You're going to generate your own keys.

     a. In the same powershell window type: ssh-keygen

 b. When prompted to name keys type: id_rsa

 c. your id_rsa and id_rsa.pub keys will be saved to the current directory

  4. type: vagrant up

  5. Wait about 3-5 minutes for the VMs to be create (NOTE: You will prompted once to enter credentials to mount the SMB share. Make sure to enter your windows username and password correctly.)

  6. Once done type:

    vagrant ssh controlnode

  7. Once you've remoted into the controlnode type:

    cd ansible

    This will take you into the ansible folder with all that you need to try out ansible:

    • ansible.cfg pointing to hosts.ini inventory file

    • hosts.ini with all the vagrant machines

    • blank playbook.yml

  8. You're all set. When done type:

    exit

  9. To destroy lab type:

    vagrant destroy -f

HOW-TO-LINUX

  1. Make sure the prerequisites are installed

  2. Open a terminal window and type:

    git clone https://github.com/Retrockit/ansible_lab

  3. Open a Terminal window and type:

    cd ansible_lab/Linux

  4. type: rm id_rsa* to delete the reference keys. You're going to generate your own keys.

     a. In terminal type: ssh-keygen

 b. name the keys: id_rsa

 c. Press Enter twice to save the public and private keys to the current directory

  5. type: vagrant up

  6. Wait for the VMs to be created (give or take 3-5 minutes)

  7. Once done type:

    vagrant ssh controlnode

  8. Once you've remoted into the controlnode type:

    cd ansible

    This will take you into the ansible folder with all that you need to try out ansible:

    • ansible.cfg pointing to hosts.ini inventory file

    • hosts.ini with all the vagrant machines

    • blank playbook.yml

  9. You're all set. When done type:

    exit

  10. To destroy lab type:

    vagrant destroy -f