/Windows-Ansible

An example of using Ansible as a Provisioner within a Vagrant file and using ServerSpec for tests.

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Ansible Examples on Windows Server 2016

This repository demonstrates:

  • Using Packer to build a machine with specific configuration
  • Using Vagrant to further configure the machine
  • Using ServerSpec to run tests against your machine to ensure desired state configuration is in place

About ServerSpec

With Serverspec, you can write RSpec tests for checking your servers are configured correctly.

Serverspec tests your servers’ actual state by executing command locally, via SSH, via WinRM, via Docker API and so on. So you don’t need to install any agent softwares on your servers and can use any configuration management tools, Puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Itamae and so on.

But the true aim of Serverspec is to help refactoring infrastructure code.

Build the Windows 2016 Box

To build the Windows Server, we use Packer. There are three providers in the vagrant template vmware-fusion vmware-workstation and virtualbox-iso

Here is how you build the virtualbox box using packer by specifying the template json file.

  packer build --only=virtualbox-iso windows_2016.json

Running Tests

First, vagrant-serverspec is required, you can install it by executing vagrant plugin install vagrant-serverspec

Next, execute vagrant up and the since we added the serverspec provisioner within our vagrantfile like so

config.vm.provision :serverspec do |spec|
    spec.pattern = 'spec/oscar-ansible-windows2016/check_features_spec.rb'
end

our tests will run at the time the VM is spinning up.