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Use system default libvirt images path & sample preseed file from
ubuntu.com.

Signed-off-by: James Oguya <oguyajames@gmail.com>
2015-06-27 21:35:40 +03:00

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Ansible Playbook

Ansible playbook for base and initial configuration of web server hosting my personal websites. After successful execution of this playbook, however, there is still some manual work to import databases, copy site content, etc.

Assumptions

Before you can run this, a few things are assumed:

  • You have a clean, minimal Ubuntu 14.04 host up and running
  • You have a user account with password-less SSH access to the machine
  • You have sudo privileges on the remote host
  • You have created a hosts file with something like:
[web]
web01

Use

Once you've satisfied the the above assumptions, you can execute:

$ ansible-playbook web.yml -i hosts -K

Testing in a VM (KVM)

A simple way to test locally in a virtual machine using libvirt + KVM:

$ sudo virt-install -n web01 -r 1024 --vcpus 2 \
-l http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.ke/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-amd64/ \
--os-type=linux --os-variant=ubuntusaucy \
--disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/web01.qcow2,device=disk,bus=virtio,format=qcow2,size=40 \
--vnc --cpuset=1,2 -x "auto=true priority=critical url=https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt"

This boots from a network Ubuntu mirror, then uses a preseed to automate the OS installation.

Testing in Vagrant

Not as simple as on GNU/Linux with KVM, but still easy:

$ vagrant up

A new VirtualBox VM will come up with the IP 192.168.33.10.

License

Copyright (C) 2014 - 2015 Alan Orth

The contents of this repository are free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.