Setup your own Ansible Lab

A Vagrant configuration file to setup an Ansible Tower Lab to test it.

Prerequisites

• VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads
• Git for Windows https://git-scm.com/downloads
• Mobaxterm (Optional) https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html

Additional software recommended

• Microsoft Visual Code (or your own prefered text editor) https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• Postman https://www.postman.com/downloads/
• HeidiSQL https://www.heidisql.com/download.php
• Ubuntu for Windows 10 https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/ubuntu-on-windows#1-overview

You can find the complete list here

Setup your lab environment

Once you have all the prerequisites covered you have to download the Vagrant configuration file from this repository:

git clone https://github.com/karkul/ansiblelab.git

Note: you shuld open a git bash shell or use a git GUI client

Then change to the new directory created:

cd ansiblelab

Then run vagrant up wait... and ¡Voila! you have your own Ansible Tower lab.

Note: if you want to add more hosts to test you must change the value of the NodeCount variable in the Vagrantfile and run vagrant reload from your terminal to add the new nodes.

You can get access to the new boxes created by Vagrant running the command:

vagrant ssh <BOX_NAME>

In the case that you want to get access to those boxes directly through the Virtualbox console interface, you can use the follow credentials.

Username: vagrant 
Password: vagrant

For more information about how to adjust the Vagrantfile please refer to here

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