shgtkshruch/rails-packer-ansible-serverspec

Building and testing Amazon Linux 2 and Vagrant Box with Packer, Ansible and Serverspec

Rails Packer Ansible Serverspec

Building and testing Amazon Linux 2 and Vagrant Box with Packer, Ansible and Serverspec.

Stacks

• AWS CLI
• Packer
• Ansible
• Vagrant
• Serverspec
• GitHub Actions

AWS

Install jq if you don't have.

Create IAM user for Packer.

$ ./aws/create-user.sh

Delete user.

$ ./aws/delete-user.sh

Packer

Install

$ brew tap hashicorp/tap
$ brew install hashicorp/tap/packer
$ packer --version
1.6.6

Build Image

$ packer inspect packer/rails.json

$ packer validate packer/rails.json

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="anaccesskey"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="asecretkey"

$ packer build packer/rails.json

Deregister Image

$ aws ec2 deregister-image --image-id IMAGE_ID

Ansible

Install

$ brew install ansible
$ ansible --version
ansible 2.10.4

Provisioning

• Nginx
• Ruby with rbenv
• Node.js

# Check playbook format
$ ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml -i ansible/hosts --check

Vagrant

Install

$ brew install vagrant
$ vagrant --version
Vagrant 2.2.14

$ brew install virtualbox
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52689672/virtualbox-ns-error-failure-0x80004005-macos

$ vboxmanage --version
6.1.16r140961

Build Box

$ packer build -force -only=vagrant packer/rails.json

$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

Update Box

Add new version box configuration to packer/metadata.json, then run command below.

$ vagrant box update

Serverspec

Install gems

$ bundle install

Test

$ bundle exec rake spec