Ansible Vagrant Set-Up

What this does

Uses Ansible to create configured Vagrant folders/files with local-only SSH keys for Ansible to then provision for local development, as if they were standard remote machines.

See an example

Check out the example-output branch to see a finished playbook build.

Prerequisites

Ansible 2.8+

Vagrant

Instructions

• Update Vagrant configurations with your variables in your_project/ansible/roles/vagrant-setup/defaults/main.yml

• update the vagrant-setup role tasks in your_project/ansible/roles/tasks/main.yml with the new variable items

• cd into the ansible directory

• run ansible-playbook setup-playbook.yml

This will create the Vagrant folder(s), keys, and add the new inventory to Ansible.

Go back to the parent directory and into a Vagrant folder. Start Vagrant:

cd ../vagrant
vagrant up

vagrant up will run a short shell script to add the SSH key to the vagrant user.

You can now run Ansible against the Vagrant boxes. Add any roles or tasks to vagrant-playbook.yml.

You can also SSH directly into the running Vagrant box as a typical remote server with the created private key in the Ansible folder as vagrant@<ip> instead of running vagrant ssh.

Example:

ssh -i ansible/vagrant_ssh/vagrant_rsa [email protected]

Warning

Don't save SSH keys in version control ever. Generate these keys strictly for local ease of use.