A collection of Vagrantfile's using the vagrant-rackspace plugin to bootstrap servers with test Ansible playbooks.
- Vagrant 1.4.3+
- vagrant-rackspace
- Ansible 1.5+
For Vagrant, follow a normal install using their packaged binaries. Keep in mind that local gem installs of Vagrant is not supported and will break things as you upgrade or work with your environment.
http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
The same goes for Ansible, find a package for your distrobution, or for OS X homebrew works great. A pip install is not recommended unless you know what you are doing or are using a development build.
http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html
The vagrant-rackspace Vagrant plugin is required with this project since the Vagrantfile is majorly geared towards using this. To install, just run:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-rackspace
For ease of use, a newly created vagrant-rackspace.rc file has been created to centralize the options for configuration. The Vagrantfile in each project requires for at least the following environmental variables to be set:
OS_USERNAME=USERNAME
OS_PASSWORD=API_KEY
Using SSH keys, we can seemlessly bootstrap a server and is recommended. This requires a bit of leg work on the Rackspace side, but is easy and a majority of the work is done for you. Using the Rackspace API, create a new keypair that can be injected into servers, and use a redirect to save the private key locally. If you have used OpenStack, the process is familiar. Using python-novaclient is a great way to do this:
nova keypair-add NAME > id_rsa.pem
Information on setting up the python-novaclient for Rackspace can be seen here:
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-python-novaclient-on-linux-and-mac-os
Now, you can export configuration for the public key to be used, and your local private key. Both options are included for your configuration in the vagrant-rackspace.rc file:
RS_KEYPATH=/path/to/generated/id_rsa.pem
RS_KEYNAME=NAME
You can also export the following optional environmental variables, again included in the vagrant-rackspace.rc file. This is also their defaults in the plugin if not set at all:
RS_RACKCONNECT=false
RS_REGION=ORD
Lastly, the default server is a 1GB Performance cloud server with Ubuntu 12.04. You are free to configure this with the following environmental variables:
RS_FLAVOR=performance1-1
RS_IMAGE=/Ubuntu 12.04/
Once you are done editing your vagrant-rackspace.rc file, source it and boot your Rackspace cloud servers as you would any Vagrant project. Vagrant will bootstrap your server with the Ansible playbooks as configured:
source vagrant-rackspace.rc
cd project_dir/
vagrant up --provider=rackspace
It is recommended to view the README of each project directory for their specifics on how many servers will be booted, and what playbooks are used.