Red Hat RHCSA-RHCE 7 Cert Guide (Lab Environment)

About

This project offers environment for all the labs in Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE 7 Cert Guide: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 book written by Sander van Vugt.

What is included?

• server1: CentOS box (Server With GUI).
• server2: same as Server1
• cache-server: Debian box used for package caching.
• labipa: CentOS box with FreeIPA configured.

install dependencies:

• Virtualbox: cross-platform virtualization application.
• Vagrant: tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation
• Ansible: free-software platform for configuring and managing computers which combines multi-node software deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management.

Don't worry you don't have to be expert on any of these tools.

1. Install virtualbox :

1.1 Install virtualbox on Ubuntu:

$ wget -q -O - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo apt-key add -

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian `lsb_release -sc` non-free contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.org.list'

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install dkms

$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

1.2 Install virtualbox on Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS:

$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | rpm --import -

$ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

$ sudo yum install VirtualBox-5.1

1.3 Install virtualbox on Fedora:

$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | rpm --import -

$ sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo

$ sudo yum install VirtualBox-5.1

2. Install vagrant :

2.1 Install vagrant on Debian-based Linux Ubuntu/Mint (64-bit):

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.8.6/vagrant_1.8.6_i686.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.8.6_i686.deb

2.2 Install vagrant on Debian-based distributions Ubuntu/Mint (32-bit):

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.8.6/vagrant_1.8.6_i686.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.8.6_i686.deb

2.3 Install vagrant on RedHat-based distributions (64-bit):

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.8.6/vagrant_1.8.5_x86_64.rpm

$ sudo rpm -ivh vagrant_1.8.5_x86_64.rpm

2.4 Install vagrant on RedHat-based distributions (32-bit):

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/1.8.5/vagrant_1.8.5_i686.rpm

$ sudo rpm -ivh vagrant_1.8.5_i686.rpm

3. Install ansible :

3.1 Install ansible on Debian-based distributions (Ubuntu/Mint):

$ sudo apt-get install gcc libssl-dev python-dev python-setuptools

$ sudo easy_install pip

$ sudo pip install ansible netaddr

3.2 Install ansible on RedHat-based distributions:

$ sudo yum install gcc openssl-devel python-devel python-setuptools

$ sudo easy_install pip

$ sudo pip install ansible netaddr

Get environment

$ git clone https://github.com/AnwarYagoub/RHCSA-RHCE-Lab-Environment.git

$ cd RHCSA-RHCE-Lab-Environment

How to start servers?

Navigate to project path where Vagranfile exists.

• start all servers

$ vagrant up

• start a specific server

$ vagrant up MACHINE_NAME

replace MACHINE_NAME with any of (server1, server2, cache-server, labipa)

$ vagrant up server1

How to access servers?

Navigate to project path where Vagranfile exists.

• to get shell access to any of environment servers

$ vagrant ssh MACHINE_NAME

replace MACHINE_NAME with any of (server1, server2, cache-server, labipa)

$ vagrant ssh server1

• You can also access servers using ip addresses listed below.

ssh root@192.168.4.210

How to stop servers?

Navigate to project path where Vagrantfile exists.

• stop all servers

$ vagrant halt

• stop a specific server

$ vagrant halt MACHINE_NAME

replace MACHINE_NAME with any of (server1, server2, cache-server, labipa)

$ vagrant halt server1

IP addresses & credentials

Server	IP address	username	password	username	password
cache-server	192.168.4.100	vagrant	vagrant
server1	192.168.4.210	user	password	root	password
server2	192.168.4.220	user	password	root	password
labipa	192.168.4.200	user	password	root	password