Vagrant Ansible VM

Since Ansible doesn't run natively on Windows, this repo allows you to create a generic VirtualBox VM using Vagrant based on Ubuntu 16.04.

Configuration

VM parameters

By default, Vagrant will name the generated VM ansible-mgmt and configure it with 1 core and 512MB of RAM. There's a smart way to change these parameters if you want to. Instead of editing the Vagrantfile, create a Vagrantconfig file in the root of the repo with this content (it's YAML syntax):

vm_name   : my-ansible-vm
vm_cpus   : 2
vm_memory : 2048

Hosts file

If you want to set a custom /etc/hosts file, create it in config/hosts.

Vagrant bootstrap script will automatically link it in the VM, so changes will be applied immediately without the need of rerun the Vagrant provisioning script.

If you don't create it, config/hosts.default file will be used.

User .bashrc

If you want to set a custom ~/.bashrc file, create it in config/user/bashrc.

Vagrant bootstrap script will automatically link it in the VM, so changes will be applied immediately without the need of rerun the Vagrant provisioning script.

If you don't create it, config/user/bashrc.default file will be used.

User .ansible.cfg

If you want to set a custom ~/.ansible.cfg file, create it in config/user/ansible.cfg.

Vagrant bootstrap script will automatically link it in the VM, so changes will be applied immediately without the need of rerun the Vagrant provisioning script.

If you don't create it, config/user/ansible.cfg.default file will be used.

SSH Files

To properly allow the VM to connect via SSH to your remote hosts, place all the SSH files (config, public and private keys) in the config/ssh folder.

Vagrant bootstrap script will copy all the files (except authorized_keys) in the ~/.ssh folder inside the VM.

WARNING: SSH files are not linked, like the previous ones, so if you make a change to the content of the directory, you must rerun Vagrant provisioning.

Ansible files (playbooks/inventories...)

Since this VM is intended to be generic, it provides the base tools but it doesn't contain any Ansible file (task, playbook, inventory). You're supposed to place them in the ansible subfolder, which in the VM will be located in ~/ansible

Custom binaries

The bin subfolder of this repo is intended to contain custom binaries. In the VM this folder will be located in ~/bin and the default .bashrc is configured to append it to the PATH variable.

Create the VM

Once you installed VirtualBox and Vagrant and configured everything, simply run:

$ vagrant up

from the root of the repo.

Now have fun with Ansible on Windows!