StackStorm / st2-ansible-vagrant

Demo showing Ansible integration with StackStorm

StackStorm with Ansible on Vagrant demo

Part of the blog: New In StackStorm: Ansible Integration

Introduction

This is quick demonstration of the StackStorm automation platform running with Ansible configuration management pack.

It will get you up and running with master VM running all St2 components as well as Ansible. Additionally, it installs 2 clean Ubuntu VMs: node1, node2 and performs ansible commands against them.

Instructions

To provision the environment run:

vagrant up

Check the results of performed commands in StackStorm control panel:
https://www.master/ username: demo password: demo

Don't forget to visit:

• http://www.node1/
• http://www.node2/

Explanation

Everything below is performed as part of Vagrant provision:

• Install st2 platform and verify installation
• Install st2 ansible pack from remote repository
• Copy ansible configuration files from vagrant shared directory into '/etc/ansible' on master
• Test ansible.command_local actions (ad-hoc ansible command) against local master machine
• Test ansible.command actions (ad-hoc ansible command) against both local master and remote node1 node2 machines
• Test ansible.galaxy actions, install, list and then remove roles installed from Ansible Galaxy
• Test ansible.vault actions, encrypt/decrypt playbooks and run them
• Test ansible.playbook action, run nginx.yml playbook against all machines
• Let the nginx on latest node greet your cat (what?!), have fun

Some of the commands:

# Run simple ansible.command locally
st2 run ansible.command_local args='echo $TERM'

# Run 'hostname -i' ansible.command on all machines (master and nodes) 
st2 run ansible.command hosts=all args='hostname -i'

# Ping all machines in 'nodes' group
st2 run ansible.command hosts=nodes module_name=ping

# Install nginx via playbook on all machines 
st2 run ansible.playbook playbook=/etc/ansible/playbooks/nginx.yml

# Run nginx playbook on latest node machine, set nginx index.html welcome message
st2 run ansible.playbook playbook=/etc/ansible/playbooks/nginx.yml extra_vars='welcome_name=Tom' limit='nodes[-1]'

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For all commands executed see: ansible.sh, ansible-galaxy.sh, ansible-vault.sh and ansible-playbook.sh, which are usual Vagrant shell provisioner scripts.

Related Resources

• Ansible & ChatOps w StackStorm Tutorial & Vagrant demo 🚀
• Ansible integration Pack