In this tutorial we use Ansible (installed in virtualenv) and Vagrant. Furthermore, we have different machines (Debian, CentOS). For all hosts we want to have Provisioning on startup and via command.

Precondition

• pip and virtualenv installed
• Vagrant installed
• BaseBoxes created (or downloaded)

Folder structure

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

Files

ansible
ansible-lint

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  # CentOS 7 VM
  config.vm.define "centos" do |centos|
    centos.vm.box = "lupin/centos7"
    centos.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 2221, id: 'ssh'
    centos.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
       vb.name = "CentOS7-Vagrant-Ansible"
    end
    centos.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
        # ansible.verbose = "v"
        ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
    end
  end

  # Debian 8 VM
  config.vm.define "debian" do |debian|
    debian.vm.box = "lupin/debian8"
    debian.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 2222, id: 'ssh'
    debian.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
       vb.name = "Debian-Vagrant-Ansible"
    end
    debian.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
        # ansible.verbose = "v"
        ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
    end
  end

end

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

---
- debug: msg="System {{ ansible_distribution }}"

ENV_DIR = env
CURRENT_DIR := $(shell pwd)
INTERPRETER = $(CURRENT_DIR)/$(ENV_DIR)/bin/
PATH := ${PATH}:$(INTERPRETER)

help:
	@echo "Run make <target> with:"
	@echo " > env           : create virtualenv on folder $(ENV_DIR)"
	@echo " > deps          : install dependentcies"
	@echo " > cleanenv      : delete virtualenv"
	@echo " > start         : run vagrant up"
	@echo " > provisioning  : start ansible provisioning"
	@echo " > kill          : run vagrant destroy"

debug:
	@echo " > ansible location is     : $(INTERPRETER)"
	@echo " > environment variable is : $(PATH)"
	vagrant status

env:
	virtualenv $(ENV_DIR) && \
	. $(ENV_DIR)/bin/activate && \
	make deps

deps:
	$(ENV_DIR)/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

cleanenv:
	rm -fr $(ENV_DIR)

start:
	vagrant up

provisioning:
	vagrant provision

kill:
	vagrant destroy -f

Usage

# create environment
$ make env

# start vagrant (create VM`s and run provisioning)
$ make start

# run provisioning (on started VM`s)
$ make provisioning

# stop vagrant (delete VM`s)
$ make kill

# delete environment
$ make cleanenv

Hint

Check out the by Vagrant generated inventory file!

$ cat .vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory