mikaelsmith / bolt-provisioning-example

Example of provisioning VMs with Bolt and the azure_arm module

Setup

Setup Azure

Sign up for an Azure account

Install the Azure CLI, then login and initialize providers we'll use with

az login
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Storage
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Network
az provider register --namespace Microsoft.Compute

Setup Local Credentials

Set environment variables and create a service principal (jq makes this easier)

export azure_subscription_id=$(az account show | jq -r .id)
export azure_tenant_id=$(az account show | jq -r .tenantId)
azure_client_name=<name>
export azure_client_secret=<password>
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name $azure_client_name --password $azure_client_secret
export azure_client_id="http://${azure_client_name}"

Install Dependencies

Install the azure_arm module with

bolt puppetfile install

Puppet Agent must be installed on the host you use to run Bolt.

Create some VMs

Note: this plan requires Bolt 1.7+

Run the plan

bolt plan run example admin_user=testAdmin admin_password=<make-a-password>

Note: you can pass arguments via a file to prevent them appearing in your shell history.

The plan will wait until machines are provisioned and print their hostnames. You can also get their IP addresses and run more commands directly with Bolt

ipaddresses=$(az vm list-ip-addresses | jq -r '.[].virtualMachine.network.publicIpAddresses[].ipAddress')
bolt command run hostname -n $ipaddresses --transport winrm --user testAdmin --no-ssl --password