This tutorial is about the interaction of PyCharm (Community Edition), Vagrant and Ansible. I want to show how you can simplify your daily work.

Preconditions

• PyCharm installed (5.0.4)
• Vagrant installed (1.8.1)
• Ansible installed (2.0.0.2)
• VirtualBox installed (5.0.10)
• make installed (3.81)

The disclosures in the brackets are my current versions. Mac OS X user need to have Command Line Tools installed!

Folder and file structure

.
├── Makefile
├── Vagrantfile
├── inventory
├── playbook.yml
└── roles
    └── common
        └── tasks
            └── main.yml

File contents

help:
	@echo "Run make <target> with:"
	@echo " > start         : to create vm via vagrant"
	@echo " > provisioning  : to start ansible on vm"
	@echo " > kill          : to stop and destroy vm"

start:
	vagrant up

provisioning:
	ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml

kill:
	vagrant destroy -f

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "demo/centos7"
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.name = "Vagrant-Ansible"
  end
  config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
      # ansible.verbose = "v"
      ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
  end
end

[vagrant-example]
127.0.0.1 ansible_ssh_user=vagrant ansible_ssh_port=2222 ansible_ssh_private_key_file=.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes
  roles:
    - common

---
- name: upgrade all packages via yum
  yum: name=* state=latest
  when: (ansible_distribution == 'CentOS') or
        (ansible_distribution == 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux')
  tags:
    - common

- name: upgrade all packages via apt
  apt: upgrade=dist
  when: (ansible_distribution == 'Debian') or
        (ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu')
  tags:
    - common

Little hint

If you do not know the path for ansible_ssh_private_key_file, just type $ vagrant ssh-config!

PyCharm – External Tools

In the last step we configure the PyCharm (External Tools). We do this for every command from Makefile exept help.