#Vagrant ansible code
Vagrant can help to spin up a machine and deploy your code on different Operating Systems and you can do much more, than in Docker or Podman containers. Much stuff can be done in containers, but sometimes you want to test virtualization, kernel parameters, certain security and firewall settings and just need some "real" machine. If you develop Ansible Playbooks, Roles or Collections, you may want to test them properly.
#Vagrant ansible how to
For an example of how to easily make a bunch of wrapper batch files, checkout this gist.The guide is tested on Fedora 34 with Vagrant 2.2.16. If you want to run other Cygwin programs from your Vagrantfile, such as ansible-galaxy, you’ll have to make another batch file. To get around this, we had to create a ~/.ansible.cfg in our Cygwin home directory (this can also go in your project directory as ansible.cfg) changing what the ssh ControlPath was set to: Īnd with that you should be ready to provision using Ansible! We recommend you re-run the command using -vvvv, which will enable SSH debugging output to help diagnose the issue You’ll likely run into the following error when you try and provision your first Vagrant VM: GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************įatal: => SSH encountered an unknown error during the connection. This is enough to let Vagrant find ansible-playbook and run the Ansible provisioner. REM You can switch this to work with bash with %CYGWIN%binbash.exe REM If you used the stand Cygwin installer this will be C:cygwin
#Vagrant ansible windows
The solution we came up with was to create a small Windows batch file and place it somewhere on the Windows PATH as ansible-playbook.bat: off To ensure we’re using the Python in our Cygwin environment, we need a way to run ansible-playbook through bash. But even if we put ansible-playbook on the Windows PATH, it won’t run, because it needs to use the Cygwin Python. Even if you call vagrant from bash or zsh, vagrant won’t be able to find ansible-playbook, because it isn’t on the Windows PATH. However, that isn’t enough to use Ansible as a Vagrant provisioner. Once that is done, you should be able to run ansible-playbook from bash or zsh. python /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy_install.py pip
#Vagrant ansible install
Next lets get pip installed, and install Ansible itself. If you see that error add the following to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc (in your Cygwin home folder) and source it: export PYTHONHOME=/usr You might get the following error if you try to run python: ImportError: No module named site. If you’re using babun, this is: pact install python python-paramiko python-crypto gcc-g++ wget openssh python-setuptools We need gcc-g++ to compile source code when installing PyYAML from PyPi.
If you’re using the standard Cygwin installer, run it again and make sure python, python-paramiko, python-crypto, gcc-g++, wget, openssh python-setuptools are all installed. You’ll also need some packages Ansible needs to run that can’t be installed by pip. You’ll need to install pip, to be able to install Ansible. You’ll need to use a Cygwin terminal, and not cmd.exe, whenever you want to run ansible-playbook or vagrant. Once you’ve got Cygwin installed, you’ll want to open up a terminal. If you’re new to using Cygwin or having trouble with the standard installer I’d recommend this. We’re using babun instead of Cygwin’s normal installer for a simpler installation and package installation process. You can follow the normal installation instructions for Cygwin if you’d like to, or if you already have a Cygwin environment set up that’s great too! The first step to getting Ansible running is installing Cygwin. With a bit of work, you can get it running from Vagrant too! Installing Cygwin It is possible to get Ansible running in a Cygwin environment. Unfortunately, Ansible is not officially supported with Windows as the control machine. Adding Ansible as a provisioner makes setting up a development environment wonderfully smooth. We’ve also been using Vagrant for quite some time to create project-specific development environments. At Azavea we use Ansible and custom ansible roles quite a bit.
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