Install Virtualbox, Vagrant and Ansible.
Create a new directory for your first Vagrant VM. In that directory, create a Vagrantfile using vagrant init, and enable the Ansible provisioner by adding the following.
config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
end
Now you can create an Ansible playbook named playbook.yml file in the same directory as your Vagrantfile, and vagrant provision will run it. Here's an easy one to start with that will update NSS and add the EPEL and IUS repositories.
- hosts: all
remote_user: vagrant
sudo: true
tasks:
- name: ensure latest nss
# This is necessary because old versions cause yum to fail
# http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/148144/unable-to-pull-epel-repository-metadata
yum: name=nss state=latest
- name: enable the EPEL repository
yum: name=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm state=present
- name: enable the IUS repository
yum: name=http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-13.ius.centos6.noarch.rpm state=present
- name: enable Nginx repo
copy: dest=/etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo src=files/nginx.repo
Add aliases (in .bashrc or .bash_profile) to provide Ansible commands with the a Vagrant-generated inventory.
alias vansible="ansible -i .vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -u vagrant"
alias vansible-playbook="ansible-playbook -i .vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -u vagrant"
Assuming you are in a directory with a Vagrantfile, this will give Ansible everything it needs to find your Vagrant hosts.
Now you can see what facts are available for a Vagrant host.
vansible default -m setup
These are all variables that can be referenced from playbooks and templates.
Handy link to a really thorough playbook:
https://gist.github.com/marktheunissen/2979474