Balanced

How to install

• If you don't have a virtualenv with ansible 1.8 installed, you should create one. Let's call this ansible-venv

• This takes on my machine:

  vagrant up --provision 16.84s user 8.35s system 2% cpu 14:56.98 total

So, about 15minutes.

installing ansible

workon ansible-venv
pip install ansible==1.8.2

installing confu

workon ansible-venv
pip install con-fu

installing roles

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml -p `pwd`/roles

Run w/ Vagrant

workon ansible-venv
vagrant up --provision

Re-installing roles

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml -p `pwd`/roles --ignore-errors

Debugging while running vagrant

Collect facts

ansible -i ./vagrant_ansible_inventory_default all -m ec2_facts -u vagrant -vvv -c ssh --private-key ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

Execute a playbook

ansible-playbook -i ./vagrant_ansible_inventory_default -u vagrant -vvv -c ssh --private-key ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key site.yml

Gotachas

• setup ansbile inside virtualenv and run it from there
• make sure you synced over your folders (TODO: make this part of the play)
• if you use vagrant, destroy the VM, and re-provision it, you have to delete the host file key otherwise ansible can't start