A set of different tools

• VM and container provision
• DB deployment (Cassandra, Mongodb)
• Useful scripts for OpenStack
• Scripts for Cisco IMC and Cisco UCSM
• Language deployment (R, Go)
• Misc

Tools to up local virtual lab based on Vagrant, Ansible and Cobbler

Cobbler

Will provision nodes via management network.

Observer

Contains ELK stack with logs from nodes

Installation

• Install VirtualBox Install VirtualBox Extension Pack

• Install vagrant

• Install vagrant hosts plugin (vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager)

• vagrant up

Create Cobbler systems (CLI)

    vagrant ssh cobbler
    wget <path_to_image>
    sudo mkdir -p /mnt/<image_folder_name>
    mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /<path_to_image> /mnt/<image_folder_name>
    cobber import --name=<system_name_for_cobbler> --arch=<x86_64|x86_32> --path=/mnt/<image_folder_name>

Images

[CentOs 7 minimal iso] (http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1511.iso)

How to create box from VirtualBox image

vagrant package --base <name_of_vm_in_virtualbox> --output <box_name>.box