Provision servers with Ansible and Vagrant

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Provision servers with Ansible and Vagrant

Servers are managed by Vagrant and provisioned using Ansible scripts.

Structure

Servers (machines) are managed by Vagrant.

Files structure

/../machines/myserver1
/../machines/myserver2
/../machines/myserver3
...

Each server might have multiple instances.

In the example below, server 'myserver1' has two instances(machines) named 'main' and 'dev' which defined in Vagrantfile

# in  /../machines/myserver1/Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

config.vm.define "main", primary: true do |m|
    # settings for 'main' machine
end


config.vm.define "dev", primary: true do |m|
end


end

Files for the server:

# in ../machines/myserver1/

Vagrantfile
playbook.yml - main Ansible playbook for initial provisining of a server

task1.yml - other Ansible files

Vagrantfile

Each vagrant can manage multiple machines. There are two machines - 'main' and 'dev' in the example below:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

config.vm.define "main", primary: true do |m|
    # settings for 'main' machine
    
    m.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
      ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
      ansible.extra_vars =
          {
          }
    end
end


config.vm.define "dev", primary: true do |m|
    # settings for 'dev' machine
    
    m.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
      ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
      ansible.extra_vars =
          {
          }
    end
end


end

Provision using Vagrant

run playbook.yml for 'main' machine:

vagrant provision main --provision-with=ansible

run playbook.yml for 'dev' machine:

vagrant provision dev --provision-with=ansible

Provision with arbitrary Ansible file

Create the following files in /../machines/

provision.rb - main executable script
inventory - Ansible inventory file

common/ - all common scripts
common/task1.yml - Ansible script

Ansible inventory

[myserver1]
s1.local ...

[myserver1:vars]
vagrant_machine_name=main

Provision with Ansible

run task 'common/task1.yml' on myserver1

provision.rb myserver1 common/task1.yml

Multiple inventories

If you have many inventories like this:

inventory_production
inventory_dev
inventory2

you can specify which inventory to use while running provision script:

provision.rb myserver1 common/task1.yml -i inventory_dev