Vagrant-Ansible

To create a skeleton for an ansible provisioned vagrant project:

saliere vagrant-ansible jenkins -c ~/jenkins-template.yml -o ~/vagrant

Template variables

This template has 2 sections: one describing the ansible parameters, one describing the VMs parameters.

The ansible section

• custom_library_paths: path(s) to your ansibles custom libraries. Separate the paths with colons (‘:’).

• custom_role_paths: path(s) to your ansibles roles. Separate the paths with colons (‘:’).

• groups_common: subsection containing variables and roles to apply to all your groups.

  • vars: dictionary of variables that are common to all your groups.
  • provisioning_roles: list of roles that are common to all your groups.

• groups: subsection caontaining the variables and the roles to apply to specific groups.

  • vm_name: this key is the name of the group to configure.
  • provisioning_roles: list of roles that are common to apply to this groups.

The VM section

• memory_size: the memory size in Megabytes.

• vm_synced_folders: a dictionary of directory to sync. The key is the directory on the guest, the value is directory on the host.

• guests: a list of dictionary describing the guest vms.

  • name: the VM name.
  • forwarded_ports: a dictionary of ports to forward. The key is the port on the guest, the value is port on the host.

Configuration file

Here is an example of configuration file for the vagrant-ansible skeleton:

vagrant-ansible:
    ansible:
        custom_library_paths: library:~/projects/ansible/library
        custom_role_paths: roles:~/projects/ansible/roles
        groups_common:
          vars:
            liquidprompt_apply_all_users: True
          provisioning_roles:
            - sbani.liquidprompt
        groups:
          ci:
            provisioning_roles:
              - jenkins
              - jenkins_job_builder
          cibuilder:
            provisioning_roles:
              - jenkins_bare_slave
              - jenkins_package_builder
    vm:
        memory_size: 1024
        synced_folders:
          ~/projects/devstack: /opt/devstack
          ~/projects/engineering/scripts: /opt/scripts
        guests:
          - name: cibuilder
          - name: ci
            forwarded_ports:
              8080: 8080

Note

Note that for the forwarded_ports and synced_folders sections, the key is always the host, and the value the guest.