Vagrant and Ansible Test Scripts

Using Vagrant

1. Download Vagrant:

   wget https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant_1.7.2_x86_64.deb
   

2. Install Vagrant with this command:

   sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.7.2_x86_64.deb`
   

3. Do the following only on Intel-based machines, when you need to have a proxy:

   sudo apt-get install libffi-dev
   sudo apt-get install build-essential
   vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf
   

4. Install the plugin for LXC:

   vagrant plugin install vagrant-lxc`
   

5. Install LXC itself:

   sudo apt-get install lxc`
   

Using Ansible

1. Install Ansible:

   sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
   sudo apt-get update -qq
   sudo apt-get install ansible
   

2. Clone the platform-ansible repository

Example test

• Make sure no machines with the role are up: vagrant destroy zabbix-server
• Bring the machine with a specified role up: vagrant up zabbix-server
• When changing scripts, reprovision the machine: vagrant provision zabbix-server
• To debug the machine: vagrant ssh zabbix-server