vagransible

Ansible + Vagrant = vagransible

Vagransible is a demo for HUG Amsterdam by Bas Meijer. Check Presentation.pdf for the slides.

NOTE: This demo was made on a Mac.

Centos 6 is used in this exploration of Vagrant, Packer and Ansible.

Usage

Enter these commands with vagransible as the work directory

'make prepare' # download the required roles
'make demo'    # create a centos6 base image for virtualbox

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• Vagrant allows users to create disposable virtual machines for their projects.
• Packer creates base images, for Vagrant and also for the clouds.
• Ansible provisions these machines.
• Combining these tools yields full control over development environments.

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make

This project has a Makefile that wraps some longer commands and their dependencies.

make prepare    # install dependencies
make packer     # build the centos image with packer
make box        # add the packer built box for use by vagrant
make up         # vagrant up, in an idempotent way
make harden     # run the hardening

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Ansible

The packer.yml playbook defines what is done during the Packer run

The provision.yml playbook defines what is done during the Vagrant run.

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Hardening

To show how security can be improved with Ansible:

'make harden'  # run the RHEL6-STIG role to create a USG compliant VM

'make audit'   # check if the VM is indeed compliant

The Vagrantfile defines a virtual machine with Centos 6, you can login to it:

vagrant ssh

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