Hashicorp at Home

** PLEASE BE AWARE THAT MOCKINGBIRD CONSULTING IS NO LONGER TRADING. AS A RESULT, THE BLOG POST IS NO LONGER ONLINE **

You can find an updated version of this article, along with the updated code in a new repository on Budget Smart Home

** THE CONTENT BELOW REMAINS FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES ONLY! **

This is the code to accompany the "Hashicorp At Home" series on our website.

How to use this repository

1. Clone the repository onto the machine you'll use to deploy the software to the server
2. Install Ansible
3. Use Ansible Galaxy to install the following roles:
   • Datadog
   • Traefik
   • Docker
   • Vault
   • Nomad
   • Consul
     • Optionally run ansible-galaxy install --roles-path ./ansible/roles -r requirements.yml from the project's root directory.
4. Update inventory/hosts and set the target IP Address to the ip address you are using for your server
5. Update playbooks/home_server.yml and set the following4

   • All variables ending in _domain must be set to the same value

     This is the domain that you will use to look up services on your network. It defaults to consul

   • consul_recursors - The DNS servers you want to use for external lookups, we use the Google ones by default.

   • nomad_vault_address - Whilst we set this up, we won't have DNS running, so we need to hard-code the IP Address for the Vault server here.

6. Overwrite ansible/roles/kibatic.traefik/templates/traefik.toml with the file at custom_configuration_files/traefik.toml.j2 in this repository
7. Follow the instructions on the blog post to create a Vault token for Nomad
8. Create two encrypted files using Ansible vault in the following locations (replacing the dummy values with the actual text):
   • inventory/group_vars/all containing datadog_api_key: "My DataDog API Key"
   • inventory/group_vars/docker_instances containing nomad_vault_token: "My Vault Nomad Token"
9. Execute Ansible against the playbook in plays

Copyright and Licensing

All code in this repository remains the copyright of Mockingbird Consulting Ltd, however it is released to the community under the MIT License to allow adaptation and reuse.

If you find the code useful, please credit us in the project that you reuse it for.

Hashicorp, Vault, Consul, and Nomad are trademarks of Hashicorp Inc. and are used here to reference their product line only. This project has not been endorsed by Hashicorp, nor is there any implied support, endorsement, or liability on Hashicorp's part to anyone who uses this software.