vagrant-aws-operation-stack

(c) Andre Lohmann (and others) 2020

Maintainer Contact

• Andre Lohmann <lohmann.andre (at) gmail (dot) com>

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This vagrant machine deploys an operations stack on aws.

The stack consists of a gitlab server with mattermost, a gitlab runner and an ses account for email transactions.

Prequesites

VirtualBox

• install the latest virtualbox from oracle repositories (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
• if you are on a linux distro, follow the instructions to add the oracle repo
• install the latest Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack

Vagrant

cli

• Install the latest vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)

plugins

the vagrant machines depends on two vagrant plugins.

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

these pluins should get installed automatically on a "vagrant up", if that fails anyways, please manually install the plugins by entering the commands

AWS

• Create IAM User (with AdminAccess permissions preferred)
• fetch Programmatic Access Credentials
• fetch IAM User ARN
• Create a Route53 Public Zone for showcase domain
• Subscribe to the latest Minimal Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Bionic
• Select latest software version, your region and copy ami-id

usage

upstart

• clone the repo and change to the directory
• copy ansible_vagrant/custom_vars.yml.example to ansible_vagrant/custom_vars.yml and set your credentials
• run the machine

vagrant up