Ansible & 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

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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

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Ansible adhoc

$ ansible 'db' -i enviro/vagrant/hosts -m ping -u vagrant

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Ansible Facts
S Returns facts from hosts
S Set them as variables for Ansible
$ ansible 'db' -i enviro/vagrant/hosts -m setup -u vagrant

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ansible-playbook

$ ansible-playbook i enviro/vagrant/hosts e pub_file=~/id_rsa.pub e user=vagrant

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Inventory

S Where your hosts are defined

$ cat /etc/ansible/hosts

S Within groups
S Host/group variables
S Group of groups

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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

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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

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Tasks

S List of things you want to do. Period.

S Use of conditionals
S Use of variables
S Call handlers
S Tags

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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
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Plugins

S Connection Type Plugins

S Lookup Plugins
S Vars Plugins
S Filter plugins
S Callbacks

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Tower

S Licenced feature
S GUI framework
S User/group grants
S Playbook history
S Scheduled jobs

Q/A
source: inc.com