Getting Started With Ansible and Rackspace P2

Posted on Thu 01 October 2015 in Computing

Introduction

In this post a simple playbook is demonstrated to provision a pseudo DC in Rackspace.

Following on from the previous post, a parametrised playbook is created to:

-  Install a keypair from a file - Create a management network - Create a domain name

This playbook will likely only be run once

Create Datacenter Playbook (rs_create_dc.yml)

---
# rs_create_dc.yml
 -  name: Create Rackspace DC
    hosts: localhost
    connection: local
    gather_facts: false

    vars:
      - region: LON
      - management_net_cidr: 10.45.45.0/24
      - domain_contact: dns@{{ domain_name }}

    tasks:
      - name: Create KeyPair
        rax_keypair:
          name: rs_kp
          region: "{{ region }}"
          public_key: "{{ ssh_key }}"

      - name: Create Management Network
        rax_network:
          label: management
          cidr: "{{ management_net_cidr }}"
          region: "{{ region }}"

      - name: Add Domain Name
        rax_dns:
          name: "{{ domain_name }}"
          email: "{{ domain_contact }}"
          region: "{{ region }}"

The playbook might then be run like this:

ansible-playbook  rs_create_dc.yml -e "ssh_key=/home/user/.ssh/publickey.pub domain_name=example.com"

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