Lima Ansible

Run Ansible playbooks against qemu VMs on Macs via lima

This setup is great for being able to test Ansible playbooks locally, not real servers required

Deployment

gnu make is used for all tasks, which is typically installed on Macs by default

Dependencies

make depends performs a brew install ansible lima to install the dependencies to be able to run this. This presumes that you already have homebrew installed.

VMs

make vms starts two VMs, a web server and a db server. The choice is arbitrary, but we can currently only support a single instance of each type due to the way the SSH configuration is managed

Ansible ping

make ansible-ping pings the two VMs to ensure they're up and healthy

Ansible

make ansible runs the playbook.yml playbook against the two servers. This currently has a single common role that gets deployed to both hosts which installs the sl yum package

Clean

make clean destroys the VMs

Shell

You can get a shell on either VM by running limactl shell myweb or limactl shell mydb

You can run the sl command that the playbook installed directly on the VMs by running LIMA_INSTANCE=myweb lima sl or LIMA_INSTANCE=mydb lima sl