Ansible Control Machine setup

Objectives

The objective of this vagrant file is to spin up and provision a VirtualBox VM with the following especifications:

• OS: ubuntu-18.04
• Private IP: 10.0.0.9
• Shell: ZShell + Oh My SZh (just for fun)
• Basic Packages: GIT, sshpass, pip2, pywinrm, ANSIBLE

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Linux boxes to be managed requires SSH and Python installed. Ideally, SSH key from the Control Machine should be used in the remotes.
• Windows boxes to be managed requires quite a configuration. To make it easier a publicly available ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 is provided.

Advantages

The main advantage of using vagrant for this kind of testing environment is that it enables us to use a completely isolated VM which can be built, destroyed and re-built in a matter of minutes.

Scope of provisioning

This vagrant script is mostly intended for the OS build and core components installation required for rolling out an Ansible Control Machine. It'll also clone a git repo with a recommended directory structure and a BASE and DOCKER provisioning examples as "roles".