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Vagrant for ansible

A vagrant environment for running an Ubuntu 22.04 ready to test ansible commands/playbooks.

Since Vagrant provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments, this setup helps you create ansible playbooks in a safe environment using vagrant emulating real environments.

It is ready to run ansible just by starting the environment, the repository contains a preconfigured inventory ready to work with the target host. We use an Ubuntu 22.04 instance and the default vagrant user to log in.

How to use

Prerequisites

Spin up the environment

Start vagrant target host:

$ vagrant up

Start writting ansible

Run ansible:

$ ansible -i inventory -m ping myhosts

Output:

192.168.56.10 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

You will find a collection of playbooks in their directory ready to use them. The playbook target is defined as a variable. To match the current Vagrant host you need pass the target as follows:

ansible-playbook -i inventory  playbooks/addcronjob.yaml --extra-vars "target=myhosts"

Output:

PLAY [myhosts] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.10]

TASK [cron] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.10]

PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
192.168.56.10              : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

More information about targeting hosts and groups: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_patterns.html

Debug

You can ssh into the vm with:

vagrant ssh

Or using a default ssh client:

ssh [email protected]

Ansible provisioner

To run ansible adhoc commands the best option is use the previous approach that simulate a real environment. But you can also use the Ansible provisioner that uses a different approach, it will run on the provisioning phase of vagrant.