/practice-ansible-starter

Start used to practice ansible

Primary LanguageShell

Practice ansible

LAST NAME : DOE

First name : John

Starter used to practice ansible. Must be running on Linux or Mac. If running on Windows, please use a VM with VirtualBox or WSL.

Getting started

Requirements

Windows particularity

If on Windows, you must use linux (Ansible works only with a linux environment):

  • VirtualBox with a virtual machine (prefer latest ubuntu)
  • Use WSL2

With WSL2, you need to add a file /etc/wsl.conf with at least this content:

[boot]
systemd=true

[automount]
options = "metadata"

Then you need to shutdown your WSL using Powershell (on windows) wsl --shutdown, then you need to update wsl2 wsl --update then you can restart wsl2.

Fedora particulary

Fedora has a firewall that may block the use of multipass. This is a known issue. If you encounter any issue while creating the virtual machines, you can disable the firewall by using this command: sudo systemctl stop firewalld. Do not forget to enable it after the practice.

Start virtual machines

This practice relies on Linux virtual machines. To create them, you have to run the following command: ./start.sh. It can take a while, specially the first time.

It will create 2 virtual machines:

  • webserver
  • database

Make sure everything is working fine

Run ./webserver.sh. It may ask you to trust the sshkey for the host, accept it. If there is no error, then everything is working fine, else make sure:

  • VMs are running
    • Run the following command: multipass list
    • You should see that ubu1 and ubu2 are running
  • You can login into the vms using: multipass shell webserver and multipass shell database
  • IP matches between multipass list and hosts.yml file
  • Try another driver
    • Ubuntu: 
      sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-system
sudo snap connect multipass:libvirt
multipass stop --all
multipass set local.driver=libvirt
./start.sh
    • Fedora: 
      sudo dnf install @virtualization
sudo systemctl start libvirtd
sudo snap connect multipass:libvirt
multipass stop --all
multipass set local.driver=libvirt
./start.sh

Shutdown and clean up

After working with it, you can destroy virtual machines by using the following command:

multipass delete webserver database 
multipass purge