Vagrant Ansible Remote

A collection of common scripts used to run Ansible everywhere

Mission statement

• Should work for Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
  • Windows cannot run Ansible nativly.
• Tie the Ansible version/installation method to the project
• Make Testing with Vagrant easy

Solution

This project contains a set of generic and very configurable scripts that help with all these steps.

Your project simply contains a "remote"-script. This script is very will install the right version of Ansible where you want it. It will also launch Vagrant virtual machine or use Docker if necessary.

Prerequisites

1. Vagrant

2. Vagrant HostManager-Plugin

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
   

or

1. Docker
   • On Windows ensure that you mount without execution rights. Add 'umask=22,fmask=111' to automount options in wsl$://etc/wsl.cnf. See blogpost.

Project Creation

1. Copy the contents of template/ into a new folder

   cp -R $vagrant-ansible-remote/template .

2. Add this repository as git-submodule

   git submodule add https://github.com/dresden-weekly/vagrant-ansible-remote

3. Configure and adapt

   • look at the copied files
   • create a .remote.xy from the given examples if necessary

4. Test your project setup with vagrant

   # bash
   ./remote.sh

   :: cmd
   remote

5. Have fun!

Using Remote script

argument schema:

remote [options]* [hosts]? [playbook]* [extra args]*

Simply calling

remote

equals:

remote default provision

More examples:

:: provision staging server
remote staging provision

:: deploying release to staging server
remote staging deploy

:: import dump from an archive
remote staging import_dump dumps/archive.tar.gz

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 dresden-weekly

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