/ansible-hackathon-setup

Create an Ansible hackathon in azure

Ansible Hackathon Setup

These playbooks bootstraps and provisions a set of machines in azure to be used for an Ansible Hackathon.

Usage

Prerequisites

A Linux bootstrap machine, it could be windows subsystem for linux (WSL), Cloud bash, whatever.

You need to have an azure subscription, and be logged in.

One way of doing this is using the Azure CLI. Get it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest

Then log in:

az login

Setup

First we need to create and bootstrap azure resources needed for the hackathon.

Start by running:

ansible-playbook -i hosts bootstrap-resources.yml

This creates a set of host machines and some target servers in the resource-group name ansiblehack-rg. It might take some time, so have patience.

After that, all inventory should be described in azurehosts, this is needed for provisioning.

Provisioning

To install ansible, pywinrm, and creation of the developer use by which the developers on the hackathon logs into the hostmachines. Run:

ansible-playbook -i azurehosts provision-hosts.yml

Validation

From here on SSH into a host machine using the developer user:

ssh developer@<host-ip>

where <host-ip> is one of the ip addresses under [hosts] in azurehosts.