Provision Ansible Tower using Vagrant

This is a simple Vagrantfile to provision a new Ansible Tower instance as a Vagrant virtual machine. It has been tested with Tower version 2.2.0.

This uses the Vagrant Ansible provisioner to call the Tower installation playbook directly, rather than calling the setup routines directly within the VM. The parameters to the Tower installer are passed as Ansible 'extra arguments'.

Pre-requisites

This Vagrantfile expects there to be a directory called installer in the same directory as the Vagrantfile itself, containing the contents of the Ansible Tower installation tarball.

You can copy-and-paste this command to make life easy:

curl -s http://releases.ansible.com/ansible-tower/setup/ansible-tower-setup-latest.tar.gz | tar -C installer --strip-components=1 -zxvf -

Configuration Options

By default, the passwords for both the Tower and Munin "admin" users defaults to 'admin'. You can override this by setting the TOWER_ADMINPW and TOWER_MUNINPW environment variables before calling vagrant up.

Automatic Licensing

If you have an Ansible Tower license you can put this into a file named tower-license in the root directory of this git checkout, and the license file will be automatically applied after the installation.

TODO

• Automatically download the correct Tower installation tarball
• Provide some "client" systems for Tower to talk to
• Setup a 'demo' environment directly in Tower using the API?