E-and-CS / Ansible-Development-Machine

A basic Vagrantfile, with Ansible scripts to permit Ansible and Python-Openstackclient operations. It brings certain folders to the machine from your home path. Please configure /global_vars/all.yml before deploying!

Archived due to no updates for >2 years

K5 Ansible and Openstack Development Machine

This provisions a Vagrant machine, running (eventually) an Ubuntu 18.04 Machine (optionally with a desktop environment) in Virtualbox, but including the openstack command and the ability to use Ansible against the K5 OpenStack environment. More recent versions also now include the az command for working with the Microsoft Azure platform.

To use this, you must have Vagrant installed, Virtualbox installed and it is recommended that you have the Virtualbox Extension Pack (from the download page on the Virtualbox site) installed.

It adds a user account with your credentials (provided you configure them in group_vars\all\credentials.yml), and can optionally use a caching proxy (such as apt-cachier-ng) if you have one in your network.

This build mounts two directories - /HostHome and /HostHomeExec - against the host machine's user home directory. I personally create the following links in the machine:

• /HostHome/Standard_Build/dotfiles/ssh to $HOME/.ssh
• /HostHomeExec/Standard_Build/bin to $HOME/bin

This means that for the files that shouldn't have the exec bits set (SSH keys, etc.) I can use the /HostHome path for them, but for the paths that do require exec bits (like scripts), then they can be executed at will.

Exercise for the reader

• Without changes, the standard build gives you an Ubuntu Server build. If you tweak the group_vars/all/vars.yml and configure the value DesktopEnvironment with one of the options there (ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-mate-desktop) then these will install official flavours of Ubuntu into your Virtual Machine (note, these will) take a LONG time to install.