moved ansible inventory generation out of Vagrant

playbooks/templates/loadbalancer.cfg.j2

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 upstream app {
     {% for host in groups['webserver'] %}
-    server {{ hostvars[host]['ipv4_address'] }}:80;
+    server {{ host }}:80;
     {% endfor %}
 }
 

self_service.sh

@@ -3,14 +3,24 @@ copy_template() {
     cp -f ../../templates/$1 ./$2
 }
 
+write_inventory_group() {
+    local fmt="[$1]\n"
+    for ((i=$2; i<$2+$3; i++)) do
+        fmt+="192.168.56.$i\n"
+    done
+    echo -e $fmt >> ./inventory
+}
+
+# Take customer inputs
 read -p "Klantnaam: " customerName
-mkdir -p ./customers/$customerName && cd $_
-
 read -p "IpInt: " ipAddr
-
 read -p "Number of webservers: " numWebserver
 read -p "Number of loadbalancers: " numLoadbalancers
 
+# Create customer directory and cd
+mkdir -p ./customers/$customerName && cd $_
+
+# Copy and fill-in necessary templates
 copy_template ./Vagrantfile.template ./Vagrantfile
 sed -i "s/#{customerName}/$customerName/" ./Vagrantfile
 sed -i "s/#{ipAddr}/$ipAddr/" ./Vagrantfile
@@ -19,9 +29,21 @@ sed -i "s/#{numLoadbalancers}/$numLoadbalancers/" ./Vagrantfile
 
 copy_template ./ansible.cfg.template ./ansible.cfg
 
+# Generate ansible inventory file.
+ipOffset=$ipAddr
+
+write_inventory_group "webserver" $ipOffset $numWebserver
+((ipOffset+=numWebserver))
+
+write_inventory_group "loadbalancer" $ipOffset $numLoadbalancers
+((ipOffset+=numLoadbalancers))
+
+# Generate a new seperate ssh key for the customer
 mkdir -p ./.ssh/
 ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f ./.ssh/id_rsa
 
 ln -s $(realpath ../../playbooks) ./
 
 vagrant up
+ansible-playbook ./playbooks/install_nginx.yml 
+ansible-playbook ./playbooks/install_loadbalancer.yml

templates/Vagrantfile.template

@@ -13,20 +13,9 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   num_webserver = #{numWebserver}
   num_loadbalancer = #{numLoadbalancers}
 
-  ansible_groups = {
-    "loadbalancer" => [],
-    "webserver" => []
-  }
-  ansible_vars = {}
-
   (1..num_webserver).each do |nth|
-    machine_id = "#{customerName}-bloated-debian-web%d" % [nth]
-    ansible_groups["webserver"] << machine_id
-    
+    machine_id = "#{customerName}-bloated-debian-web%d" % [nth]   
     machine_ip = increment_ip()
-    ansible_vars[machine_id] = {
-      "ipv4_address" => machine_ip
-    }
 
     config.vm.define machine_id do |web| 
       web.vm.box = "ubuntu/focal64"
@@ -40,25 +29,12 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
         vb.gui = false
         vb.name = machine_id
       end
-
-      if nth == num_webserver
-        config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
-          ansible.playbook = "./playbooks/install_nginx.yml"
-          ansible.groups = ansible_groups
-          ansible.host_vars = ansible_vars
-        end
-      end
     end
   end
 
   (1..num_loadbalancer).each do |nth|
-    machine_id = "#{customerName}-bloated-debian-lb%d" % [nth]
-    ansible_groups["loadbalancer"] << machine_id
-    
+    machine_id = "#{customerName}-bloated-debian-lb%d" % [nth]  
     machine_ip = increment_ip()
-    ansible_vars[machine_id] = {
-      "ipv4_address" => machine_ip
-    }
 
     config.vm.define machine_id do |web|
       web.vm.box = "ubuntu/focal64"
@@ -72,14 +48,6 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
         vb.gui = false
         vb.name = machine_id
       end
-
-      if nth == num_loadbalancer
-        config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
-          ansible.playbook = "./playbooks/install_loadbalancer.yml"
-          ansible.groups = ansible_groups
-          ansible.host_vars = ansible_vars
-        end
-      end
     end
   end
 end

templates/ansible.cfg.template

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 [defaults]
 private_key_file = "./.ssh/id_rsa"
 remote_user = "vagrant"
-inventory = ./.vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory
+inventory = ./inventory
+host_key_checking = False