bwits / rancher-provisioning

Install rancher server and agents using ansible

#Rancher server/agent installation and configuration using Ansible

This repository contains Ansible playbooks for configuring a Rancher Server with local auth enabled and registering Rancher Agents to the server automatically. Docker will be installed if not already on the target machine.

Requirements

To run these playbooks you need to have ansible installed: Ansible 1.9

Variables

Playbooks are configured by passing in extra variables. You need to pass in the environment variables in the --extra-vars option when running ansible-playbook. See the provisionServer.sh, provisionAgent.sh and bootstrapProvisioner.sh scripts for examples.

For the server playbook you need to set the --extra-vars:

• RANCHER_SERVER_HOST (url for rancher server)
• RANCHER_PORT (port rancher server is listening on)
• ADMIN_USER (local auth admin username for rancher server web UI)
• ADMIN_PASS (local auth admin user password for rancher server web UI)
• SSH_USER (ssh user for target server machine)
• SSH_PASS (ssh pass for target server machine)
• API_USER (api username for talking to rancher server api)
• API_PASS (api password for talking to rancher server api)

For the agent playbook you need to set the --extra-vars:

• RANCHER_SERVER_HOST (url for rancher server)
• RANCHER_PORT (port rancher server is listening on)
• SSH_USER (ssh user for target agent machine)
• SSH_PASS (ssh pass for target agent machine)
• API_USER (api username for talking to rancher server api)
• API_PASS (api password for talking to rancher server api)

Development environment

There is a development environment setup using Vagrant and Virtualbox. This environment consists 3 boxes: a rancher server, a single agent and a machine to provision the former two using ansible.

You will need to have the following software installed on your development machine:

• Virtualbox (It works with >= 4 but i recommend 5 to maximise compatibility with the version of guest additions - version 5 - installed on the vm)
• Vagrant (>= 1.7.4)

I suggest you use your native/favourite package manager to install these (for windows see chocolately, Mac OSX: homebrew, linux: apt-get :))

To create the environment run command in this directory:

vagrant up

This will provision the machines on first run

To reprovision the server and agent nodes run:

vagrant provision