moenka/proving_ground

Vagrant test environment for automation and applications/scripts.

Proving Ground

Vagrant test environment with prepared scenarios

Getting started

Prepare workstation

1. Install vagrant. You can download the latest version here.
2. Install virtualbox and/or libvirt including dev dependencies (e.g. libvirt-dev on debian distributions).
3. Install vagrant plugins.

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
   vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
   vagrant plugin install vagrant-mutate
   vagrant plugin install vagrant-share
   

Select environment

Environments are seperated in different directories which are self contained with the exception of plugins/custom extensions for vagrant.

cd <directory>

Start environment

vagrant up

Destroy environment

vagrant destroy -f

Update environment

vagrant box update

Cleanup environment

vagrant box prune

Features

Hostmanager

Manages /etc/hosts file of the system to ensure virtual machines are reachable by .vagrant. To ensure every user in sudo group can update /etc/hosts the sudoers file needs to be modified:

# vagrant-hostmanager
Cmnd_Alias VAGRANT_HOSTMANAGER_UPDATE = /bin/cp */.vagrant.d/tmp/hosts.local /etc/hosts
%sudo ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: VAGRANT_HOSTMANAGER_UPDATE

This of course can also be specific to one user instead of %sudo.

SSH key integration

Plugin: plugins/key_authorization.rb

Ensures the users public key is situated on every virtual machine. This way a passwordless login is possible.gg

Ansible Provisioning

New roles need to be added from within the .ansible directory with the command:

ansible-galaxy install <author.role>

License

MIT