Requirements:

• Internet connection is a must!
• Make sure the VT support is enabled in your BIOS
• Vagrant - 1.9.x or higher
• Vagrant plugins:
  • vagrant-proxyconf needed for running behind proxy
  • virtualbox_WSL2 needed for running under WSL
  • vagrant-vbguest automatically installs the host's VirtualBox Guest Additions
• Ansible: latest
• Virtualbox: latest

Ansible Environment:

Multi-Machine Vagrant Environments: This Vagrantfile will create 3 Centos VM's to simulate Ansible control machine and 2 target hosts.

• host1
• host2
• ansible-host

WSL Environment Setup

Bash environment:

• export http_proxy=http://<your_proxy_server>:
• export https_proxy=https://<your_proxy_server>:

VAGRANT Environment Setup

VirtualBox settings needed for Vagrant

export VBOX_USER_HOME="/mnt/c/Users//.VirtualBox/" export machinefolder="/mnt/c/Users//.VirtualBox/" export VAGRANT_WSL_ENABLE_WINDOWS_ACCESS="1" export VAGRANT_HOME="~/.vagrant.d/" export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox" export VAGRANT_LOG=debug set SSL_CERT_FILE=C:\My\App\Tools\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gems\gems\excon-0.99.0\data\cacert.pem

Plugin Installation

Install (some plugins might need to be installed as user, not root to work):

• vagrant plugin install --plugin-clean-sources --plugin-source https://rubygems.org virtualbox_WSL2
• vagrant plugin install --plugin-clean-sources --plugin-source https://rubygems.org vagrant-vbguest
  • Might be necessary: vagrant plugin install --provider virtualbox --insecure vagrant-vbguest
• vagrant plugin install --plugin-clean-sources --plugin-source https://rubygems.org vagrant-proxyconf

git setup

git config --global http.sslverify false

Install requirements

ansible-galaxy install --ignore-certs -r requirements.yml

Files included:

• ansible.cfg
• inventory
• bootstrap-node.sh
• ansible-install.yaml
• playbook.yaml
• inventory.yaml

Connecting the dots:

Before you run vagrant up, make sure that you updated the Vagrantfile to your desired configuration. Specifically use the box that are available from https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/.

Once you are done:

• vagrant up Wait for about 6 minutes to finish the build. Once done. You can try to ssh to your ansible-host vm. You can verify this by using "vagrant status"

• vagrant ssh ansible-host once you are login to your ansible-host vm, you can now verify if the other vm are reachable.