Provisioning VM With KVM using Ansible

requirements

• python 3
• KVM

to install the python requirements run

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Install and setup Ansible

For a simpler and cleaner Ansible install use a python virtual-env. In order to do so create a directory:

$ mkdir Ansible
$ python3 -m venv Ansible

So enable the virtual environment using :

$ source Ansible/bin/activate

now that you have the venv enabled, it's time to install Ansible (Note: Ansible will be available only in the virtual environment):

$ pip3 install -r venv-requirements.txt

Use the playbooks

Now that everything is ready you can run the playbook create-vm.yml

create VMs

$ ansible-playbook -i Inventory/localVars.inv create-vm.yml --ask-become-pass

setup VM and install docker

Check the IPs taken by the VMs and put them in /etc/ansible/hosts

virsh net-dhcp-leases default

/etc/ansible/hosts example:

[nodes]
<YOUR_IP_ADDRESS> ansible_user=docker

run the check-vm.yml to check the VMs status and install docker

$ ansible-playbook -i Inventory/localVars.inv check-vm.yml --ask-become-pass