Vagrant and Ansible Training
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wefnerVagrant and Ansible Training
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wefnerAnsible & Vagrant
ecosystem
Oriol Fbregas Bull
Who am I?
S DevOps Enthusiast
S Using Ansible for over a year
S Love automation
S Love challenges
S 3 years in Telefnica R+D
Why Vagrant?
S Great development environment
S Portable to many platforms
S Widely customizable
S Ansible provisioning
S Many providers
S Excellent for trainings!
And why Ansible?
S Simple YAML playbooks
S Good conditional statements
S Ansible Facts
S Run tasks on hosts
S Speed
About this training
S Basic 3 nodes
S MySQL
S Nginx
S Wordpress on Apache
S Advanced 10 nodes
S MySQL cluster
S Nginx
S Apache cluster
S GlusterFS cluster
S Source Code
Vagrant setup
$ git clone https://github.com/wefner/ansible-vagrant.git
$ cd ansible-vagrant/
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-host-shell
$ vagrant box add chef/centos-6.5 --provider virtualbox
$ cd basic/
$ vagrant status
Current machine states:
web
db
proxy
$ vagrant up --provision
not created (virtualbox)
not created (virtualbox)
not created (virtualbox)
Vagrantfile
S Hosts and hardware specs
S OS to load from
S Port forwarding
S Ansible provision
Know more
Ansible components
S Ansible
S Ansible-playbook
S Ansible-vault
S Ansible galaxy
S Ansible Tower
Getting started
S Install ansible
S Get familiar with:
S YAML
S JINJA2
S Check if Tower fits your needs
S Vagrant interface
$ pip install ansible
$ brew install sshpass
What is YAML?
S Everything in Ansible are files
S Most of them are YAML files
S YAML is simple to define structured data
array_example:
- value1
- value2
- value3
literal: value
hash_example:
key1: value1
key2: value2
key3: value3
Ansible.cfg
S Configuration settings
S Default behavior
S Global
Know more
Ansible adhoc
$ ansible 'db' -i enviro/vagrant/hosts -m ping -u vagrant
Know more
Ansible Facts
S Returns facts from hosts
S Set them as variables for Ansible
$ ansible 'db' -i enviro/vagrant/hosts -m setup -u vagrant
Know more
ansible-playbook
$ ansible-playbook i enviro/vagrant/hosts e pub_file=~/id_rsa.pub e user=vagrant
Know more
Inventory
S Where your hosts are defined
$ cat /etc/ansible/hosts
S Within groups
S Host/group variables
S Group of groups
Know more
Dynamic inventory
S Script that outputs JSON file
S JSON file that Ansible will read
S Integration with:
S EC2
S LDAP
S CMDB
S Cobbler
Modules
S Libraries for playbooks
S Everybody can submit PR
S Can control system resources
S Essential
S Takes arguments as key=value
Roles
S Set a number of tasks as roles
S Define what servers should have running
S Default variables capability
S Conditionals
S Jinja2 templates
Know more
Handlers
S Shortcuts called by tasks when changed
Templates
Jinja2 language
Develop your own plugins!
Keep logic according to task/hosts variables
The less logic inside templates the better
Know more
Tasks
S List of things you want to do. Period.
S Use of conditionals
S Use of variables
S Call handlers
S Tags
Know more
Run playbooks
S Main playbook definitions
S You can
S Set roles
S Set hosts
S Set variables
S Set conditions
$ ansible-playbook -i enviro/vagrant/hosts lamp.yml -limit proxy
Vault
S Secure playbooks
S Useful for variables as
S Certificates
S Passwords
S Private keys
$ vim playbook.yml
$ ansible-vault encrypt playbook.yml
Vault password:
Confirm Vault password:
Encryption successful
$ echo password > secret.txt
$ ansible-playbook playbook-yml \
--vault-password-file=secret.txt
S Master password
S From file
S On demand
Know more
Plugins
S Connection Type Plugins
S Lookup Plugins
S Vars Plugins
S Filter plugins
S Callbacks
Know more
Tower
S Licenced feature
S GUI framework
S User/group grants
S Playbook history
S Scheduled jobs
Q/A
source: inc.com
