Some time ago I sat out to automatize the creation of a K3S (lightweight Kubernetes) cluster in Multipass virtual machines using Ansible since I wanted to be able to quickly create a K3S cluster for wild experiments. Given a number of nodes and configurations for each of the virtual machines on which the nodes are… Read More »
Some time ago I wrote an article on how to test deployment of Docker containers with Ansible using Molecule. In addition I merrily went ahead and used my own advice and initially I weren’t able to discover any flaws. After some time low disk-space warnings began appearing. Using NCDU, I tried to determine what was… Read More »
Update: There is a slight issue with the technique described in this article. Please refer to this article for a remedy. Testing Ansible automation with Molecule means testing against Docker container(s) that poses as remote server(s). An interesting challenge, at least to me, was to use Molecule to test deployment of Docker containers – this… Read More »
In this article I will have a look at how to establish dependencies between Ansible collections so that if B has a dependency to C and A has a dependency to B then C will be available without when executing A without explicitly including C as a dependency to A. Motivation When developing Ansible collections… Read More »
In this article I am going to satisfy my curiosity regarding how variables work in Ansible roles.An Ansible role is a set of reusable resources, such as tasks, handlers and templates that can be used from Ansible playbooks. As a software developer, I would perhaps compare roles to subroutines – neither can be used in… Read More »
In this article I will automate creation of Multipass virtual machines using Ansible. The manual process is described in an earlier article. As in the previous article, the virtual machines created will be configured as to allow for password-less login using a private key. Prerequisites In order to be able to create Multipass virtual machines,… Read More »
In this article I will show how to set up an Ansible inventory that makes it possible for Ansible to interact with a Multipass virtual machine. Prerequisites A Multipass virtual machine should be created according to instructions in the article Multipass Key-Based Authentication. Note where the file containing the private key is stored.The second prerequisite… Read More »
This post is mostly notes in my own notebook, in order for myself to remember something I have found useful. Given my virtual laboratory that I created in an earlier post, it soon becomes tedious to run the same commands over and over again on the different nodes in the virtual laboratory. So I started… Read More »