NOTE: This project is currently outdated
Example project for running Ansible, inside a newly created Windows virtual machine.
For the Unix equivalent, see here
Clone this project:
git clone https://github.com/magenta-aps/vagrant-ansible-example.git
To install vagrant, run:
apt-get update
apt-get install vagrant
To install Ansible, run:
apt-get update
apt-get install ansible
Additionally a hypervisor must be installed, the default is virtualbox:
apt-get update
apt-get install virtualbox
Both vagrant and Ansible can be installed using the Homebrew CLI.
Vagrant depends on Virtualbox for MacOS. To install vagrant and Virtualbox, add the 'cask' tap to homebrew and run:
brew tap caskroom/cask
brew install caskroom/cask/virtualbox
brew install caskroom/cask/vagrant
To install Ansible, run:
brew install ansible
Not supported, please figure out a solution yourself, and add it via. a pull request.
Whereas with the Linux example, we had freely available Ansible-Ready machine images to use, this is not the case for Windows, and as such one must be generated.
To do so, please refer to the README.md file
within the gen-windows-box subfolder.
At this point, it's assumed we have our Windows Server Box
gen-windows-box/windows_2016_docker_virtualbox.box.
We can now register this image with vagrant, by using:
vagrant box add gen-windows-box/windows_2016_docker_virtualbox.box \
--name "windows-server-2016" \
--provider virtualbox
If successfull, you'll see the line:
==> box: Successfully added box 'windows-server-2016' (v0) for 'virtualbox'!
Now to communicate with windows, we'll utilize WinRM (Windows Remote Management) instead of SSH, and as such; we need to install a few vagrant plugins:
vagrant plugin install winrm
vagrant plugin install winrm-fs
Note: Installing these, may require you to install ´zlib1g-dev`.
As there seems to be issues with the most recent winrm ruby gem, we'll install a specific version, instead:
vagrant plugin install winrm --plugin-version 1.8.1
At which point, we're ready to run the virtual machine.
To provision the machine using Ansible we need to install pywinrm, we can do
this by running:
apt-get install python-winrm
pip install --upgrade pywinrm
After this is done, the machine can be provisioned manually by running:
vagrant provision
After the machine is up, or as a part of the VM setup process, when running:
vagrant up
It is a known issue, that installing the vagrant plugins, can result in an issue, alike the one below:
Installing the "winrm --version '1.8.1'" plugin. This can take a few minutes...
/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/specification.rb:946:in `all=':
undefined method `group_by' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
...
The solution to this issue, is running code of the internet:
sed -i'' "s/Specification.all = nil/Specification.reset/" \
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vagrant/bundler.rb