Ansible Developer VM Provisioning

A blueprint on how developer VM's can be provisioned from any host with Vagrant installed. Let's make us developers' lives easier!

Prerequisites

1. Have vagrant (version 1.8.6) installed
2. Have virtualbox installed
3. Have some space on your machine left. 5 GB will be more than sufficient.
4. Internet connection

Getting started

Next to this README file there is another file called Vagrantfile which defines how your virtual machine is going to be configured.

1. Download and Install VirtualBox
2. Download and Install Vagrant
3. Open a terminal and navigate into the directory where the Vagrantfile is placed inside
4. Run $ vagrant up if you are starting the VirtualMachine for the first time. If the VM is already available and you just want to provision the machine run $ vagrant provision
5. Internet connection

Supported tools / versions

The following combinations of tools have been tested and working

Vagrant	VirtualBox	VmWareFusion	vagrant-vmware-desktop	VmWare Workstation
2.0.2	5.2.6		1.0.3	14.1.2
2.1.2	5.2.14	10.1.2	1.0.3

Configure your machine

1. Adjust the provisioning in the directory provisioning to your needs (add roles, extend playbook, whatever...)
2. If you're using passwords create a vault and a vaultpassword file as described in the file provisioning/group_vars/vault
3. Open a command line interface next to the Vagrantfile: $ vagrant up and grab a coffee.
4. Your wonderful new dev vm should be up and running now

Open points

• More roles from Ansible-Galaxy (Download of specific versions to avoid breaking changes)
• Templating example