Ansible & Vagrant(Ansible Provisioner for Vagrant)

Mukul MalhotraRed Hat Gluster Storage

Agenda

What is Vagrant ?

Vagrant components

Vagrantfile

Boxes

What is Ansible ?

Provisioning VM with Ansible

Demo

Questions ?

What is Vagrant ?

Provide theteamdevelopers with a reproducible and portablework environment to isolate dependencies and their configuration

Manages virtual machines

Quick & easy to use

Great for development & testing

Machines are provisioned on top of VirtualBox, VMware, libvirt, AWS & more.

Provisioning tools such as shell scripts, Ansible, Chef, Puppet can be used to automatically install and configure software on the machine.

Vagrant: Getting Started

Requirement:

Enabling Intel VT-x/AMD-V Virtualization Hardware Extensions in BIOS

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep -E "vmx|svm"

VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

Vagrant: Getting Started (Contd.)

Download vagrant box with specific name,

$ vagrant box add centos/7

Default URL: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search

Initialise the vagrant file & run the virtual machine,

$ vagrant init

$ vagrant up --provider virtualbox

SSH into the virtual machine,

$ vagrant ssh

Destroy the virtual machine,

$ vagrant destroy

Vagrant component: Vagrantfile

# mkdir /project/test_env

# cd /project/test_env

# vagrant init

Vagrant component: boxes

Different base boxes as per providers I.e, Virtualbox,Vmware etc

Download the base box as per OS to Initiate the virtual machine in minutes

Can package or re-package the base box as per provider

What is Ansible ?

Simple IT automation tool. It can configure systems,deploy software & orchestrate

Written in Python

Easy to use, easy to manage & easy to understand

Ansible is agent-less & no server & client deamon'sare required

Ansibles configuration, deployment, and orchestration language are defined in Playbook & written in YAML

Automated Provisioning with Ansible using Vagrantfile

Demo

Thank You

Questions/Feedback ?