Provision virtual machines with Ansible & Vagrant

1. 1
Ansible & Vagrant
(Ansible Provisioner for Vagrant)
Mukul Malhotra
Red Hat Gluster Storage

2. 2
Agenda
● What is Vagrant ?
● Vagrant components
● Vagrantfile
● Boxes
● What is Ansible ?
● Provisioning VM with Ansible
● Demo
● Questions ?

3. 3
What is Vagrant ?
●
Provide the team developers with a reproducible and portable
work environment to isolate dependencies and their
configuration
●
Manages virtual machines
●
Quick & easy to use
●
Great for development & testing
●
Machines are provisioned on top of VirtualBox, VMware, libvirt,
AWS & more.
●
Provisioning tools such as shell scripts, Ansible, Chef, Puppet can

4. 4
Vagrant: Getting Started
Requirement:
●
Enabling Intel VT-x/AMD-V Virtualization Hardware Extensions in
BIOS
●
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep -E "vmx|svm"
●
VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
●
Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

5. 5
Vagrant: Getting Started (Contd.)
●
Download vagrant box with specific name,
●
$ vagrant box add centos/7
●
Default URL: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
●
Initialise the vagrant file & run the virtual machine,
●
$ vagrant init
●
$ vagrant up --provider virtualbox
●
SSH into the virtual machine,

6. 6
Vagrant component: Vagrantfile
# mkdir /project/test_env
# cd /project/test_env
# vagrant init

7. 7
Vagrant component: boxes
●
Different base boxes as per providers I.e, Virtualbox,
Vmware etc
●
Download the base box as per OS to Initiate the virtual machine in
minutes
●
Can package or re-package the base box as per provider

8. 8
What is Ansible ?
●
Simple IT automation tool. It can configure systems,
deploy software & orchestrate
●
Written in Python
●
Easy to use, easy to manage & easy to understand
●
Ansible is agent-less & no server & client deamon's
are required
●
Ansible’s configuration, deployment, and orchestration language
are defined in Playbook & written in YAML

9. 07/19/16 The Future of Gluster.org - John Mark Walker
Automated Provisioning with Ansible using
Vagrantfile

10. 07/19/16 The Future of Gluster.org - John Mark Walker
Demo

11. 07/19/16 The Future of Gluster.org - John Mark Walker
Thank You
Questions/Feedback ?