Preparation steps for ASB (Ansible Service Broker) Workshop

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Prepare machine for ASB workshop

Tools to install

Single binary tools

Its convenient to extract below binaries to single directory in your $HOME, e.g. ~/bin/ and add this line to your ~/.bashrc:

export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Command line tools to install:

• Install the helm binary
• Install the svcat binary
• Install minishift
  • MacOS
    • brew cask install minishift
  • Other
    • Download package for your OS from minishift release page
    • Unpack the archive and copy binary minishift to any location in you $PATH
  • Either use default vm-driver for minishift or config minishift to alternative vm-driver, e.g. for kvm:
    • minishift config set vm-driver kvm
  • Make sure minishift start and minishift delete are working.
• Install oc (v3.9.0) - kubectl like tool for Openshift
• Install apb (Ansible Playbook Bundle) tool either with
  • Using Docker
    • git clone https://github.com/ansibleplaybookbundle/ansible-playbook-bundle.git
    • YOUR_PATH_DIR=~/bin
    • PATH=${YOUR_PATH_DIR}:${PATH}
    • cp ansible-playbook-bundle/scripts/apb-docker-run.sh ${YOUR_PATH_DIR}/apb && chmod +x ${YOUR_PATH_DIR}/apb
  • Using RPM (Fedora 26/27)
    • sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
    • sudo dnf -y copr enable @ansible-service-broker/ansible-service-broker-latest
    • sudo dnf -y install apb
  • Using RPM (Centos 7)
    • sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
    • sudo yum -y install apb

Tools with installer

• Install either kvm, virtualbox or hyperv (for minishift provisioning)
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• Install apb (Ansible Playbook Bundle) tool either with
  • Using Docker
    • git clone https://github.com/ansibleplaybookbundle/ansible-playbook-bundle.git
    • YOUR_PATH_DIR=~/bin
    • PATH=${YOUR_PATH_DIR}:${PATH}
    • cp ansible-playbook-bundle/scripts/apb-docker-run.sh ${YOUR_PATH_DIR}/apb && chmod +x ${YOUR_PATH_DIR}/apb
  • Using RPM (Fedora 26/27)
    • sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
    • sudo dnf -y copr enable @ansible-service-broker/ansible-service-broker-latest
    • sudo dnf -y install apb
  • Using RPM (Centos 7)
    • sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
    • sudo yum -y install apb

Start minishift to download ISO

Minishift downloads iso with ~400MB, run it first time so that we save some bootstrap time at workshop.

Run these commnads:

• minishift config set openshift-version v3.9.0
• minishift config set iso-url centos
• minishift start
• minishift delete