Create a virtual cluster with ansible

Create and manage a virtual clusters with ansible, kvm and libvirt on a single machine.

This repository automates as much as possible the creation of a variety cluster for testing and learning purposes.

Minimum System Requirments

Get Base Images

Use osinfo-query os to see a list of all supported OSs.

Getting Started

The following will get you all the software you need to start creating clusters. First install ansible;

>> yum install ansible

Then clone this git repo;

>> git clone https://github.com/bmduffy/ansible_kvm_cluster.git

The playbooks in this repo will need to interact with your localhost to create virtual clusters. The following playbook will install libvirt on your machine and restart it;

>> cd ansible_kvm_cluster/install
>> ansible-playbook site.yml

Repository Strucutre

Common and reusable ansible is stored in roles and plays. The following clusters are (will be) defined;

generic - Basic vm cluster sans any cluster software
ocp - Openshift Container Platfrom Enterprise edition
origin - Openshift Origin free version
k8s - Kubernetes cluster