The purpose of this section is to explain how to put Ansible modules together to use Ansible in a CloudStack context. You will find more usage examples in the details section of each module.
Ansible contains a number of core modules for interacting with CloudStack based clouds. All modules support check mode and are designed to use idempotence and have been created, tested and are maintained by the community.
Ansible contains a number of extra modules for interacting with CloudStack based clouds. All modules support check mode and are designed to use idempotence and have been created, tested and are maintained by the community.
..note:: Some of the modules will require domain admin or root admin priviledges.
..note:: Some of the modules will require domain admin or root admin privileges.
Prerequisites
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$ pip install cs
..note:: cs also inludes a command line interface for ad-hoc ineraction with the CloudStack API e.g. ``$ cs listVirtualMachines state=Running``.
..note:: cs also includes a command line interface for ad-hoc ineraction with the CloudStack API e.g. ``$ cs listVirtualMachines state=Running``.
Credentials File
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You can pass credentals and the endpoint of your cloud as module arguments, however in most cases it is
a far less work to store your credentials in the cloudstack.ini file.
You can pass credentials and the endpoint of your cloud as module arguments, however in most cases it is a far less work to store your credentials in the cloudstack.ini file.
The python library cs looks for the credentials file in the following order (last one wins):
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Regions
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If you use more than one CloudStack region, you can define as many
sections as you want and name them as you like, e.g.:
If you use more than one CloudStack region, you can define as many sections as you want and name them as you like, e.g.:
..code-block:: bash
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Use Cases
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The follwoing should give you some ideas how to use the modules to provision VMs to the cloud. As always, there isn't only one way to do it. But as always: keep it simple for the beginning is always a good start.
The following should give you some ideas how to use the modules to provision VMs to the cloud. As always, there isn't only one way to do it. But as always: keep it simple for the beginning is always a good start.
Use Case: Provisoning in a Advanced Networking CloudStack setup
Use Case: Provisioning in a Advanced Networking CloudStack setup
Our CloudStack cloud has an advanced networking setup, we would like to provision web servers, which get a static NAT and open firewall ports 80 and 443. Further we provision database servers, to which we do not give any access to. For accessing the VMs by SSH we use a SSH jump host.
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The configure the jumphost, web servers and database servers, we use ``group_vars``. The ``group_vars`` directory contains 4 files for configuration of the groups: cloud-vm, jumphost, webserver and db-server. The cloud-vm is there for specifing the defaults of our cloud infrastructure.
Our database servers should get more CPU and RAM, so we define to use a ``Large`` offering for them. The web servers should get a ``Small offering`` as we would scale them horizontaly, which is also our default offering.
Futher we provision a jump host which has only port 22 opened for accessing the VMs from our office IPv4 network.
..code-block:: yaml
# file: group_vars/cloud-vm
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cs_offering: Small
cs_firewall: []
..code-block:: yaml
# file: group_vars/jumphost
---
cs_firewall:
- { port: 22, cidr: "17.17.17.0/24" }
Our database servers should get more CPU and RAM, so we define to use a ``Large`` offering for them.
..code-block:: yaml
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---
cs_offering: Large
The web servers should get a ``Small`` offering as we would scale them horizontaly, which is also our default offering.
..code-block:: yaml
# file: group_vars/webserver
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- { port: 80 }
- { port: 443 }
Further we provision a jump host which has only port 22 opened for accessing the VMs from our office IPv4 network.
..code-block:: yaml
# file: group_vars/jumphost
---
cs_firewall:
- { port: 22, cidr: "17.17.17.0/24" }
Now to the fun part. We create a playbook to create our infrastructure we call it ``infra.yml``:
..code-block:: yaml
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cs_instance:
name: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"
template: Linux Debian 7 64-bit 20GB Disk
service_offering: "{{ cs_offering }}"
state: running
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with_items:
- 22
- name: add inbound TCP rules to security group search
- name: add inbound TCP rules to security group web
cs_securitygroup_rule:
security_group: web
start_port: "{{ item }}"
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In the first play we setup the security groups, in the second play the VMs will created be assigned to these groups. Further you see, that we assign the public IP returned from the modules to the host inventory. This is needed as we do not know the IPs we will get in advance. In a next step you would configure the DNS servers with these IPs for accassing the VMs with their DNS name.
In the last task we wait for SSH to be accessable, so any later play would be able to access the VM by SSH without failure.
In the last task we wait for SSH to be accessible, so any later play would be able to access the VM by SSH without failure.