Ansible with vCloud Air Workshop Install, configure and use Ansible on your laptop to provision workloads in vCloud Air

Abstract Learn the basics of Ansible, use this workshop to install, setup and configure Ansible on your laptop. Once you have successfully configured Ansible, then learn how to use it for DevOps deployment into your vCloud Air environments. Dylan Silva, Sales Engineer, Ansible Inc. 8/31/2015

What is Ansible? SIMPLE AGENTLESS POWERFUL Human Readable Automation No Special Coding Skills Required Tasks executed in order Get Productive Quickly AGENTLESS No extra code to manage Uses OpenSSH No agents to exploit or update More Efficient and Secure POWERFUL App Deployment Configuration Management Workflow Orchestration Orchestrate the app lifecycle

Inventory Modules Tasks Plays Playbooks Ansible Components CONFIDENTIAL

Inventory Hosts and Groups Inventory Sources

Inventory-specific data Static / Dynamic Sources Inventory Concepts Hosts Groups Inventory-specific data Static / Dynamic Sources CONFIDENTIAL

Defines: Port and Address Remote/sudo usernames Connection type Inventory: Hosts Defines: Port and Address Remote/sudo usernames Connection type CONFIDENTIAL

Inventory: Hosts CONFIDENTIAL

Inventory: Hosts CONFIDENTIAL

Inventory: Hosts CONFIDENTIAL

Modules Bits of code copied to the target system. Executed to satisfy the task declaration. Customizable.

vca_vapp vca_nat vca_fw apt/yum copy file service template Modules Examples vca_vapp vca_nat vca_fw apt/yum copy file service template CONFIDENTIAL

TASKS Directory should exist Package should be installed Service should be running Render a template into a configuration file vCloud Air instance should exist

Tasks: Examples CONFIDENTIAL

file: path=/opt/cache state=directory - name: install nginx Using Modules in Tasks - name: add cache dir file: path=/opt/cache state=directory - name: install nginx yum: name=nginx state=present - name: start nginx service: name=nginx enabled=yes state=started state=started CONFIDENTIAL

Exercise 1 Install Ansible Setup key(s) Run a couple of tasks

Plays Play naming Hosts selection Play arguments Variables Tasks Concurrency and order of operations Conditionals

Play Naming name: This is a Play CONFIDENTIAL

Hosts Selection name: This is a Play hosts: web-servers CONFIDENTIAL

Play Arguments name: This is a Play hosts: web-servers remote_user: fred sudo: yes connection: ssh CONFIDENTIAL

cache_dir: /opt/cache Variables name: This is a Play hosts: web-servers remote_user: fred sudo: yes connection: ssh vars: http_port: 80 cache_dir: /opt/cache CONFIDENTIAL

Tasks name: This is a Play hosts: web-servers remote_user: fred sudo: yes connection: ssh vars: http_port: 80 cache_dir: /opt/cache tasks: - name: create cache dir file: path={{ cache_dir }} state=directory - name: install nginx yum: name=nginx state=installed CONFIDENTIAL

Exercise 2 Download playbooks Make modifications to playbooks Execute Playbooks against vCloud Air